
vCISO: Virtual Chief Information Security Officer
Bring a CISO Onboard and On Demand
The Fast, Easy, Affordable Way
vCISO from NopalCyber
Everyone benefits from having a Chief Information Security Officer—but recruiting one takes time, money, and patience, and many companies don’t need a full-time resource. Skip the struggle and get straight to the upside with vCISO services from NopalCyber.
Our virtual CISO experts become your cybersecurity executive. Leverage their skills, experience, and combined expertise to strengthen your security posture, shrink your attack surface, and upgrade your governance, risk, and compliance strategy. Your vCISO learns your company, IT, goals, and risks to the same degree as an in-house executive. Then they step up to solve the most urgent, risky, or complicated cybersecurity issues facing your company, whenever and wherever they arise. It’s all the benefits of a CISO without the burdens and overhead of hiring in-house.
Add vision, leadership, and wisdom to your cybersecurity strategy with our vCISO services, the missing piece to your executive team.
Reach Cybersecurity Maturity with a vCISO
The flexibility of our service offering matches the expertise of our team—your virtual Chief Information Security Officer is there to evaluate, improve, and manage all aspects of your cybersecurity strategy to the highest standards, best practices, and compliance mandates – no matter where you are on your security journey. Rely on your vCISO for the following:
Build and Manage Your Security Program
Build and Manage Your Security Program
Implement or improve on policies, standards, and procedures with the benefit of decades of collective experience building effective security programs at diverse companies.
Strategic Guidance About Cybersecurity
Strategic Guidance About Cybersecurity
Put a long-term cybersecurity strategy in place that reflects your business objectives, technology priorities, and risk exposures because it’s guided by cybersecurity executives who understand the stakes.
Get Compliant and Follow Frameworks
Get Compliant and Follow Frameworks
Comply with all applicable regulations, prepare for audits, and plan for new and expanding rules to take effect, knowing you can call on a compliance expert who tracks these issues closely.
Upgrade Security Operations
Upgrade Security Operations
Continuously monitor for threats and compare those signals to the latest threat intelligence with the help of an elite team with the skills and coverage to stay ahead of new, aggressive, and evasive attacks.
Improve Training and Awareness
Improve Training and Awareness
Make your employees a cybersecurity asset by having your vCISO improve and administer training and awareness programs that show people how to mitigate cybersecurity threats at all times.
Manage Vendors and Third-Party Risk
Manage Vendors and Third-Party Risk
Assess and manage the risk posed by vendors and other third-parties, led by a vCISO with experience finding, ranking, and addressing risks posed by contracts and collaborative agreements.
Apply Metrics and Reporting
Apply Metrics and Reporting
Evaluate the performance of your cybersecurity program using metrics, benchmarks, and assessments chosen by cybersecurity leaders who understand what matters to executives and boards, and how to communicate the information they need effectively.
A Dynamic Solution to Improve Cybersecurity
Virtual CISO services from NopalCyber stretch your cybersecurity budget further by making executives affordable for all—but that’s just one way a vCISO makes you stronger:
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Tools: Learn how to optimize or integrate existing security investments while getting expert guidance about what tools and vendors to add for maximum impact.
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Teams: Complete your security team by adding the skills or leadership where there are gaps and have someone to serve as a liaison with company executives.
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Tactics: Practice offensive and defensive cybersecurity tactics as part of a holistic strategy tailored to your company’s technology and trajectory.
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Training: Address insider risks and fortify the most important line of defense by training employees how to identify, avoid, and report attempted cyber attacks.

Your vCISO is Ready to Get Started
Nothing does more for your cybersecurity strategy than a CISO. Add executive talent the easy way—contact NopalCyber about our tailored vCISO services.
Frequently Asked Questions
They serve as the leader, strategic thinker, and final decision maker for the security team. They also serve as the liaison between that team and the C-Suite, as well as being a cybersecurity expert in the executive ranks.
Cybersecurity talent is already in short supply, and many professionals are missing the experience, expertise, and leadership skills it takes to be an effective executive. As a result, talent qualified to be a CISO takes time and money to recruit, and they often leave quickly for other opportunities.
You need a vCISO if your cybersecurity strategy suffers from a lack of leadership, strategic thinking, expertise, or foresight, resulting in more breaches, greater damage, and less efficient security operations. Another clear sign is wanting to have a CISO but lacking the time, budget, or need to make a full-time hire
Managed services providers deliver vCISO services by combining their own resources – talent, tools, methods etc. – into a package that provides the same executive-level leadership and guidance as a CISO but for a fraction of the time, money, and other resources it would take to make a full-time hire.
A vCISO needs some time to learn a company’s technology, attack surface, and business strategy, but that process can happen while vCISOs advise and assess in other areas. That means vCISO can start making an impact almost immediately after coming onboard—days after signing a contract.
Evaluate performance against the service level agreements and deliverables outlined in the contact. Then take a higher view, looking at how the number of incidents, amount of losses, and overall cybersecurity spending compare before and after hiring a vCISO. The positive impact should be obvious.