Executive security leadership,
delivered as a service.
Call it a vCISO, a fractional CISO, or interim security leadership. The mandate is the same. CISO as a service puts a named, Triton-vetted security executive on your roadmap, your board agenda, and your audits, at the fraction of a full executive hire and without the months a search takes. You get the leadership the risk demands, sized to the organization you actually run.
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8
Fortune 10 companies served as clients and partners.
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50%+
Of the Fortune 100 have engaged RED SKY Consulting.
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20+
Years refining the proprietary Triton Vetting Process.
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15+
Years of experience carried by each of our senior internal staff.
One leader, accountable for the whole security function.
A RED SKY vCISO is not an advisor on the sidelines. They own the security function the way a full-time CISO would, across six areas of responsibility, with deliverables your board and your auditors can hold in their hands.
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Strategy & advisory
A cybersecurity strategy built around your business objectives, with risk management priorities and threat intelligence briefings your leadership team can act on.
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Program management
Ownership of the security program end to end: policy development, employee training, incident response planning, and the operating cadence that keeps all three current.
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03
Technical direction
Hands-on guidance for the controls that matter: identity and access, endpoint protection, and secure architecture, sequenced so your engineers build in the right order.
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04
Regulatory compliance
Readiness and evidence for the frameworks your market demands, including SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, and ISO 27001, kept current as requirements move.
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05
Risk assessment & mitigation
Recurring risk assessments that feed a living risk register and a prioritized mitigation plan, so exposure is measured on a schedule rather than discovered in an incident.
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06
Board & stakeholder reporting
Reporting written for the rooms where it lands: board updates, investor-ready compliance documentation, and answers for the customer security reviews that hold up your deals.
Every vCISO clears the same Triton Vetting Process we apply to executive candidates. If the seat should be permanent, our executive search for security and technology leadership fills it for keeps, and if the need is a defined project rather than ongoing leadership, our cybersecurity professional services delivered under SOW carry it as a scoped engagement.
Fractional hours. Full accountability.
Every CISO as a service engagement is sized to the organization it serves. A company building its first security program needs a different cadence than one carrying enterprise customers, regulators, and an audit calendar, so hours, deliverables, and reporting rhythm are set against your maturity and your risk, not a one-size retainer.
The leader is named before anything is signed. You meet your vCISO, review their background, and confirm the fit, the same standard we hold on every engagement: the person in the pitch is the person in the seat. Each one has held senior security leadership before and has cleared the Triton Vetting Process for certifications, industry depth, and working style before they ever appear in front of a client.
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Assess
Baseline & risk profile
A structured assessment of your current posture, control maturity, and exposure, so the program starts from evidence rather than assumption.
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Roadmap
Strategy the board can fund
A prioritized security roadmap with policies, budget framing, and milestones, written to be approved in one meeting, not studied for a quarter.
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Operate
The program, run on cadence
Working sessions with your team, control rollout guidance, training, and incident readiness, on a monthly rhythm sized to the engagement.
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Report
Evidence that travels
Board reporting, audit evidence, and a posture you can put in front of customers, insurers, and investors without translation.
Assessment sprint
A defined engagement with a defined deliverable: baseline assessment, framework readiness such as SOC 2, or a policy and training foundation for a program starting from zero.
Fractional retainer
A named vCISO owning the function on an ongoing retainer, with monthly hours, deliverables, and reporting sized to your risk and maturity, and resized as both change.
Dedicated & interim
Expanded or near-full-time coverage for organizations carrying elevated risk, and interim CISO leadership that holds the seat while a permanent search runs.
Leaders drawn from a network built seat by seat.
RED SKY has spent two decades recruiting and placing cybersecurity executives, and the vCISO bench is drawn from that same network: practitioners who have held the CISO seat, kept in standing relationship, and matched to engagements by industry, maturity, and working style.
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93
Fortune 100 CISOs in direct, standing relationship with RED SKY.
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425+
Fortune 500 CISOs inside our established, direct network.
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8,500
CISO contacts in the database we maintain and work daily.
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12+
Years of cybersecurity leadership carried by the average consultant.
One program, across an entire portfolio.
RED SKY designs and staffs vCISO programs that cover a whole portfolio: companies grouped by industry, resourced by size and maturity, and run against one framework with one reporting standard. A startup gets project-based readiness work. A later-stage company gets an ongoing retainer. The operating team gets a single view of risk across all of it.
We have built this model with private equity firms and their portfolio companies, where security posture is not only risk control but enterprise value: investor-ready compliance documentation, board-level reporting, and a program that stands up in diligence when the exit conversation starts.
- Portfolio companies grouped by industry, resourced by maturity.
- One framework and one reporting standard across every holding.
- Investor-ready compliance documentation and board reporting.
- A phased rollout that proves value before it scales.
Put a named CISO on the mandate.
Bring us the audit date, the customer security review, the board question that has no owner, or the portfolio that needs one standard. We will return a CISO as a service engagement scoped to it, with the leader named and their background in front of you before anything is signed.
Carry the seat where it counts.
Our vCISO bench leads fractional and interim engagements inside enterprise, growth, and portfolio environments. If you have held the seat and want your next chapter to be leadership without a single address, we should know each other.