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Senior security leadership, sized to your business.

Most organisations have security tools in place. Few have anyone owning risk at board level. Our vCISO service gives you a fractional Chief Information Security Officer who owns the agenda: risk, governance, compliance and the conversation with your board.

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Why most firms need a vCISO, not a CISO

A full-time CISO typically costs £150–250k a year. Most firms in our market do not need one. They need one to four days a month of senior security thinking, attached to the people who run their estate, with a board paper at the end. That is what a vCISO is.

ITbuilder's vCISO service is more than a job title. It is a security practice: risk assessment, governance design, framework selection, policy implementation, board reporting and incident-response readiness, delivered by people who have done the role inside large organisations.

What you get

  • A named vCISO who attends your leadership meetings and owns the security agenda.
  • A documented risk register, kept current and owned, not delegated.
  • Board-ready risk reporting that turns technical posture into business language.
  • Regulatory mapping across Cyber Essentials Plus, ISO 27001, GDPR and your sector's own obligations.
  • Policies, standards and procedures written for your context, not borrowed from a template.
  • An incident response retainer and tested playbooks, ready before you need them.

What you avoid

  • Paying £200k for a hire you do not yet need.
  • Buying a tool that solves a problem you have not named.
  • Walking into a board meeting holding a vendor dashboard you cannot explain.
  • Discovering on audit day that your policies do not match your practice.

Sector specialisms

  • Professional services
    • Client confidentiality
    • Professional bodies such as the SRA and ICAEW
    • Lexcel
    • ISO 27001
  • Financial services
    • FCA operational resilience expectations
    • Third-party risk
    • DORA exposure, where relevant
  • Healthcare and care
    • NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit
    • CQC implications
  • Property
    • Client money handling
    • ARLA Propertymark expectations
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Put a name against your cyber risk.

Start with a Cyber Posture Review: a structured, no-nonsense look at where you stand today, and a clear view of what a vCISO would own for you.

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