Fractional Security Services

Experienced Security Leadership That Grows With Your Program

SideChannel’s fractional security services give your organization access to security leaders who have run programs across government, manufacturing, financial services, and global enterprises. Strategy, compliance, risk management, and hands-on execution from a team that integrates with yours.

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Program Leadership

A named security leader who owns your program all year. Monthly working sessions that drive decisions, quarterly business reviews for leadership, and board-ready documentation your team can stand behind.

Compliance and Governance

Risk and framework assessments mapped to NIST CSF, SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, CMMC, and CIS Controls. Your vCISO owns the compliance program from gap analysis through audit, so you do not manage the process.

Technical Coverage

Monthly vulnerability prioritization, configuration assessments across M365, cloud, email, and endpoint, incident response planning, and vendor risk reviews on a defined schedule.

Maps to CIS v8 Controls

NIST CSF aligned

CMMC Level 2 ready

HIPAA / PCI DSS supported

How SideChannel Fits Into Your Organization

Every engagement starts differently, here’s where we most often come in.

Compliance Programs

A vCISO owns the compliance program from gap analysis through certification. Whether you are working toward SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, CMMC, or a combination, your security leader manages the process so your team does not have to.

Board and Leadership Reporting

Your vCISO prepares board-ready reporting, translates technical risk into business language, and gives your leadership team the confidence to answer questions from the board, investors, and enterprise customers.

Fast Security Leadership

SideChannel vCISO engagements start within two weeks. A named security leader with full program context steps in, integrates with your team, and gets the program moving without a lengthy onboarding period.

AI Governance

As boards and insurers ask harder questions about AI risk, your vCISO can lead the governance program, covering data handling policies, model risk assessment, and AI-related disclosure requirements.

What vCISO Services Deliver

Every SideChannel vCISO engagement includes a named security leader who owns your program all year. Here is what that looks like in practice.

Program Leadership

A dedicated security leader who integrates with your team, shows up monthly, and is reachable between sessions. Monthly working sessions drive decisions, quarterly business reviews keep leadership informed, and board-ready documentation gives your team something to stand behind.

  • Dedicated security leader, all year
  • Monthly working sessions
  • Quarterly business reviews
  • Board and audit-ready documentation
  • Trusted advisor relationship between sessions

Compliance and Governance

Your vCISO owns the compliance program from gap analysis through audit, managing the controls, the documentation, and the timeline so your team does not have to.

  • Risk and framework assessment mapped to NIST CSF 2.0, CIS Controls, or equivalent
  • Security policy suite built in Year 1, maintained in Year 2 and beyond
  • Cyber insurance review and renewal guidance
  • Executive tabletop exercise
  • Compliance program management across SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, CMMC, and PCI DSS

Technical Coverage

Monthly monitoring, scheduled assessments, and vendor risk reviews running on a defined cadence and tracked to completion. Your program does not stop between sessions.

  • Monthly vulnerability prioritization and remediation tracking
  • Configuration assessments across M365, cloud, email, and endpoint
  • Incident response plan built, tested, and updated annually
  • Vendor risk and user access reviews on a defined schedule

What Your First 90 Days Looks Like

Most clients have a complete risk assessment and prioritized roadmap within 30 days, board-ready reporting within 60 days, and an active compliance program underway by day 90.

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Days 1 to 14

Matching and Kickoff

We match your organization with a named security leader based on your industry, compliance needs, and team size. Your engagement starts with a kickoff call to understand your business, your current security state, and what is most urgent.

Days 15 to 30

Assessment and Roadmap

Your security leader conducts an initial assessment, maps your current controls against the appropriate framework, identifies your highest-risk gaps, and delivers a prioritized 12-month roadmap with cost estimates and owner assignments.

Days 31 to 90

Program in Motion

Your security leader owns your active projects, including policy development, vendor reviews, compliance programs, and team training, all running on a defined cadence with weekly status updates, monthly executive summaries, and quarterly board briefings.

Ongoing

When Something Goes Wrong

Your incident response plan is ready before you need it. If a breach or ransomware event occurs, your security leader activates the plan, coordinates with legal and regulators, and leads your recovery.

The Strategy and the Infrastructure,
From the Same Team

SideChannel’s vCISO practice and Enclave, our zero-trust security platform, are built to work together. When a security leader identifies a segmentation problem, a certificate risk, or a visibility gap, Enclave closes it.

Most organizations source security strategy and security infrastructure from different providers. At SideChannel, they come from the same team, which means the strategy is built around the infrastructure your organization can actually operate, and the infrastructure is deployed against the gaps your security leader has already identified.

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Tell Us Where Your Program Is Today

Whether you need the strategy, the infrastructure, or both, we will help you figure out the right starting point.

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