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David Chasteen
Featured West Coast vCISO
Our San Francisco team delivers SideChannel’s full virtual CISO services — board reporting, compliance, and incident response. With years of experience as actual CISOs supporting startups and VCs, we have the expertise to address your organization’s stakeholders needs with absolute confidence. With your organization, your board, your stakeholders, and management team, we will develop the strategic vision, resources, and protocols to maintain an appropriately sized, measured, and effective security program. Let us be your organization’s virtual CISO.
What We Offer
Our methodology is simple and effective
We understand your current profile – threats, assets, strengths, weaknesses, partners, regulatory obligations and investments through our own research of proprietary data sources and talking to you/your teams.
We measure your controls and relative operational and program effectiveness, through scenario analysis and walkthroughs – building a full understanding of where you are and where you need to get.
We provide a plan to bring you to your target profile and help you execute. This may include:
- Program, policy, procedure documentation
- Strategy development
- Procurement and vendor negotiation
- Identification, implementation and management of tools and managed services providers
- Oversight of team and program activities
Meet Your Organization’s San Francisco Virtual CISO
Our expert vCISOs have the firsthand experience needed to help you build a stronger and more robust cyber defense. Contact our team to get started.
