A CISO, also known as a Chief Security Officer (CSO), is the most senior executive in charge of information/cyber security at an organization. A CISO needs not only to have the right technical skills and experience, but also strong business acumen. Because of their specialized skillset, these executives are in very high demand.
At PCSA Group, we are a one-stop-shop specializing in building, running and optimizing cyber security programs. Our virtual and on-call CISOs assist organizations with:
- Program development: We have developed multiple cyber security programs ranging from $200K to $5M+.
- Program Governance: Drafting and implementing a strategic framework, associated processes and required policies/procedures.
- Program management: Tuning and optimizing an existing security program using metrics and Key Performance Indicators. Measurement and quantification of Return on Investment (ROI).
- Security architecture: Assessing the current architecture, gap analysis and implementation of technical solutions.
- Security operations: Implementation of a Security Operations Center (SOC).
- Cyber risk and cyber intelligence: Threat analysis, creating an organizational risk profile, tracking security threats. Helping the board understand potential security problems that might arise from acquisitions or other big business moves.
- Investigations and forensics: Determining what went wrong in a breach, dealing with those responsible if they’re internal, and planning to avoid repeats of the same crisis.
- Balanced Scorecard – A Bord-level holistic organizational assessment combining (1) organizational industry compliance requirements (e.g. FISMA, HIPAA, etc.) and (2) cyber standards (e.g. ISO 27001, COBIT, etc.)