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Fractional CISO (vCISO) services in the UAE and India: A security leader your board can name, without a full-time hire.

A senior practitioner takes the CISO seat for the hours your business needs. Someone owns the risk, the roadmap and the conversation with the board. You get the decisions, not a stack of slides.

Talk to a CISOSee the first 90 days

For

Growing and regulated companies that need accountable security leadership and are not ready for a full-time CISO.

You get

A named leader, a board-ready risk view, a funded roadmap and a working rhythm with your executives.

How it runs

A fixed monthly time commitment, agreed up front, with a standing slot for the board and the executive team.

Not included

Hands-on engineering and 24/7 monitoring. We connect you to the right service for that.

The work product is a decision, not a deck

This is the kind of one-page paper a fractional CISO puts in front of your board. The facts are invented. The shape is real.

Board paper (illustrative)

Decision: fund identity controls before the audit window

Prepared by: Fractional CISO · For: Board risk committee · Decision needed this quarter

Where we stand
Privileged accounts are shared across three teams. Two have no second factor.
Why it matters
This is the shortest path to our customer data. It is also what auditors test first.
Options
A: fix now with current staff, slower. B: fix now with outside help, faster. C: defer to next year.
Recommendation
Option B. Closes the gap before the audit. Cost and owner stated in the appendix.
If we do nothing
The audit finds it. A customer finds it first, or an attacker does.

Days 1 to 30

Listen and baseline

Meet the executives, read the policies, review incidents and contracts. Agree what the board needs to hear.

Days 31 to 60

Set the direction

Present a ranked risk view and a roadmap with owners. Agree what to fund first.

Days 61 to 90

Start the rhythm

First board paper, first metrics pack, first review of suppliers and open audit findings.

Where a fractional CISO fits

ItemFull-time CISOFractional CISOConsultancy project
AccountabilityFull-time, inside the org chart.Named, on a standing commitment.For the project, then it ends.
Time on your businessFull week.Agreed hours each month.Per engagement.
Best whenSecurity is core to the business and the team is large.You need a leader and a plan, and not a full-time seat.You need one assessment or one fix.
ContinuityDepends on one person.A leader plus a bench behind them.Ends with the report.

What your leadership team holds after the first year

  • Board reporting packA repeatable paper: risks, decisions, spend, and what changed since last time.
  • Risk registerRanked, with owners and a treatment plan that finance can cost.
  • Security roadmapTwelve months of work in an order that makes sense, tied to budget.
  • Policy and standards setShort documents your teams will follow, mapped to the frameworks you answer to.
  • Supplier reviewWhich suppliers hold your data, and what you have asked of them.
  • Incident readinessWho does what, who decides, and who talks to the regulator.

Grounded in recognized frameworks

  • NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0

    Adds Govern as a core function, covering strategy, roles, policy, oversight and supplier risk. It is a good checklist for what a CISO owns.

  • ISO/IEC 27001

    Requires leadership commitment, defined roles and management review of the security system.

  • SEC Regulation S-K, Item 106

    US-listed companies describe the board's oversight of cyber risk and management's role in it. Boards elsewhere face similar questions from investors.

What a fractional CISO does not do

  • Run your security operations

    Day-to-day monitoring and engineering sit with your team or a managed service.

  • Replace your lawyers or auditors

    We prepare you for them. We do not stand in for them.

  • Promise zero risk

    We help you choose which risks to accept, reduce or transfer, and write that down.

Works well with

  • Board & Executive AdvisoryPrepares directors for the questions regulators and investors ask.
  • Cyber Risk AssessmentsGives the CISO a ranked, evidence-based view to lead from.
  • Regulatory ComplianceTurns the roadmap into audit-ready evidence.

Questions we hear

How many hours does a fractional CISO give us?

We agree a fixed monthly commitment based on your size, regulation and goals. It is written into the engagement so both sides know what to expect.

Can a fractional CISO sit in front of our regulator or auditor?

Yes. We can lead those conversations alongside your executives. Where the law or the regulator requires a named employee in a role, we tell you at the start.

What if we later hire a full-time CISO?

We hand over the register, the roadmap and the board pack, and can stay on through the transition.

Do you tell us what to buy?

We recommend what the risk calls for and show the alternatives. We do not take commissions from vendors.

Meet the person who would sit in your seat.

A first conversation covers your risks, your board and what a good year looks like.

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