Strategy & roadmap
A security strategy tied to your business goals, and a prioritized roadmap your board can actually fund.
Service · Advisory
vCISO services: senior security leadership, on demand.
A vCISO (virtual CISO) gives you the judgment of a seasoned security executive without the cost of a full-time hire. We set your strategy, manage risk, and translate security into board-level decisions, scaled to where your business actually is.
01 What it is
A security executive without the full-time hire.
A vCISO is a senior security leader engaged part-time to own your security program. They set strategy, manage risk, lead your compliance effort, and report to the board, holding the accountability a full-time CISO would, at the scale your business needs.
It is the right move when security has become business-critical but doesn’t yet justify a permanent executive: after a raise or an incident, when a customer or regulator asks for ISO 27001 or SOC 2, or when your team needs direction it can’t hire fast enough.
02 What a vCISO covers
Leadership across people, process and technology.
Risk management
A living risk register, clear ownership, and decisions framed in business terms rather than scanner output.
Policy & governance
Right-sized policies and an ISMS that reflect how your teams really work, not shelfware.
Board & stakeholder reporting
Security translated into the language of risk, budget and revenue for the people who sign off.
Compliance leadership
Direction across ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI-DSS and regional rules, so certifications land without fire drills.
Team & vendor decisions
Who to hire, what to buy, what to drop. Vendor-neutral guidance on tooling and third-party risk.
03 How we work
Baseline, then build.
01
Baseline
We start with a maturity read on where you stand across people, process and technology.
02
Target & roadmap
We agree the posture your business actually needs, then sequence the work to get there.
03
Run & report
We drive the roadmap, sit in your leadership cadence, and report progress against KPIs.
Most engagements begin with a security maturity assessment to set the baseline, then run on a monthly and board-cycle cadence.
04 Why Unmewt
Run by people who’ve held the seat.
Operators, not theorists
Our advisors have built and led security teams from the ground up, for Fortune 500s and startups alike.
Credentialed
CISSP, CCSP, ISSAP and CISM on the bench, plus ISO 27001 Lead Auditor capability.
Vendor-neutral
No product quota. The only thing we recommend is what we’d choose for ourselves.
Certified ourselves
Unmewt operates under an ISO/IEC 27001:2022-certified ISMS (BSI cert IS 833676).
05 Questions
vCISO, answered.
What is a vCISO (virtual CISO)?
A vCISO is a senior security leader engaged part-time to own your security program: setting strategy, managing risk, leading compliance, and reporting to the board. You get the judgment of a seasoned security executive without the cost or commitment of a full-time hire.
When does a company need a vCISO?
Most companies bring one in when security has become business-critical but doesn’t yet justify a full-time CISO: after a funding round or incident, when a customer or regulator demands ISO 27001 or SOC 2, when entering new markets, or when an engineering team needs senior security direction it doesn’t have in-house.
How is a vCISO different from a security consultant?
A consultant typically delivers a project and leaves. A vCISO owns outcomes over time: they hold the strategy, sit in your leadership meetings, make and defend decisions, and stay accountable for your posture improving. It is leadership, not just advice.
How much does a vCISO cost compared to a full-time CISO?
A vCISO is a fraction of the cost of a full-time executive hire, because you pay for the leadership you need rather than a permanent salary, benefits and equity. Engagements scale with your stage and can grow or taper as your needs change.
Can a vCISO help us get ISO 27001 or SOC 2 certified?
Yes. Our vCISO engagements include compliance leadership, and we can run the full readiness and audit-support work for ISO 27001, SOC 2 and PCI-DSS under the same team, so your certification effort is led rather than improvised.
Do you work alongside our existing team?
Always. A vCISO multiplies an existing team rather than replacing it, giving your engineers and analysts senior direction, unblocking decisions, and building the in-house capability so you depend on us less over time.
Need a security leader, not another report?
Tell us where you stand. We’ll tell you honestly whether a vCISO is the right move.