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Not just a CISO. Your entire security team, working inside your company.
Most vCISO services rent you one part-time advisor who tells you what to do. We start by learning your business: what you sell, who you sell to, and what's slowing your growth. Then we build a security roadmap around those goals and do the work with you. You get a CISO who joins your team, backed by a dedicated security team picked from our bench of 45+ senior security leaders and engineers who ran security at Apple, Robinhood, and the NSA.
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A vCISO (virtual or fractional chief information security officer) is a senior security leader who works for your company part-time instead of as a full-time hire. Most vCISO services stop there: one outside advisor recommending best practices. YSecurity goes further. Your CISO works as part of your team, builds a security roadmap around your business goals, and leads a dedicated team of security engineers, pen testers, cloud and AI security specialists, and compliance leads who carry it out. Security strategy, SOC 2 and ISO 42001, customer security reviews, incident readiness, and board reporting all get done by people who have done it at the highest level.
If you searched for a vCISO, you're in the right place. Here's what the term usually means, and what you get from us instead.
Many people hear "virtual" and picture an outside contractor with little connection to the business. Our CISOs and engineers work inside your company, alongside your team.
If one of these is on your plate right now, it's the kind of work your vCISO and security team take off it.
Without a security leader, security usually lands on the CTO or a senior engineer, on top of their real job. A vCISO takes ownership of the program: the roadmap, the risk calls, and the answers customers and investors expect. Your dedicated security team does the hands-on work, so your engineers can stay on the product.
Your vCISO and team answer it with you, accurately, from how your company actually runs. Where an honest answer is "not yet," they help you fix the gap or explain the plan to the buyer. They also join the buyer's security call, so the deal doesn't stall waiting on you.
Start with scoping: what the customer actually needs, Type 1 or Type 2, and which systems are in scope. Your vCISO owns the program while our compliance team runs controls, evidence, and the auditor. First-time clients typically reach SOC 2 Type 2 in about five months.
Tell them who owns it, what the top risks are, and what's being done about each one. Your vCISO builds that one-page security story, presents it to your board as your security leader, and keeps it current through diligence.
Often neither, yet. One engineer can't set strategy, and one CISO can't do the hands-on work alone. A vCISO with a dedicated security team gives you both, and you can hire full-time later, once you need someone to manage a security team in-house.
Have a response plan before you need one: who decides, who talks to customers, and who fixes what. Your vCISO and team write the plan, run a tabletop exercise with your team, and lead the response if something happens.
A named security leader who joins your Slack, stand-ups, and planning. They learn how your business works and make the calls a CISO makes: what to fix first, what risk to accept, and what to tell your board and your customers.
Your security plan starts from your goals: the enterprise deals you're chasing, the audit a buyer is asking for, the round you're raising. Work is ranked by what it unblocks, so security helps you grow instead of slowing you down.
Security engineers, pen testers, cloud and AI security specialists, and compliance leads, picked from our bench of 45+ senior people who ran security at Apple, Robinhood, and the NSA. They make the changes in your cloud and codebase, answer the questionnaires, join your buyer security reviews, and run the audits.
Billed in 15-minute increments with an optional monthly cap. No retainer, no long-term contract. One full-time CISO alone averages $415,000 in total compensation (IANS Research and Artico Search), before you hire a single engineer to work for them.
We start with your business, not a checklist: what you sell, who's buying, and what's in the way right now, whether that's a buyer's questionnaire, a SOC 2 deadline, or a board asking about security. You get a written roadmap tied to those goals.
Your CISO joins your Slack and stand-ups from day one and brings in engineers and specialists as the roadmap calls for them.
Your team carries out the roadmap day to day: compliance, customer reviews, cloud and product fixes, and incident readiness. We scale up before an audit or a big deal, scale down when things are quiet, and update the roadmap as your goals change.
A CISO setting direction, and a team of specialists doing the work.
Augment Code closed SOC 2 Type 2 in five months with YSecurity and cut 64.9% from its security costs. Lead volume grew 15x after the report closed.
Read the case study →Robust Intelligence cleared SOC 2 in three months with YSecurity. When Cisco acquired the company for $400M, the security work held up through diligence.
Read the case study →Your dedicated team is picked from a bench of 45+ senior security leaders and engineers who ran security at Apple, Robinhood, and the NSA. When the work calls for a new skill, your CISO brings in the right specialist, without a new hire or a new contract.
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