Virtual & Fractional CISO Services
Virtual and fractional CISO support helps growing SaaS, fintech and payment teams turn customer pressure, compliance work and technical risk into a practical security plan without a full-time CISO hire.
The engagement is advisory and execution-focused: ControlSolid helps define priorities, strengthen controls, and prepare evidence. Management retains decisions and ownership, and independent auditors or assessors provide formal opinions and attestations.
Start with a baseline. Continue with agreed guidance.
Initial baseline and prioritized roadmap
Establish the current security posture, identify material risks and build a prioritized roadmap with owners, milestones and decision points tied to business and customer needs.
Ongoing guidance and executive reporting
Review progress, advise on security decisions and prepare executive updates at an agreed cadence. Customer-assurance support and implementation responsibilities are defined in scope, with management retaining ownership.
Security leadership that connects business priorities to technical execution
Kelvin O. Medina, Founder & Managing Principal, combines executive security advisory with hands-on cloud, application and payment-security experience.
In his vCISO work, he advises executive leadership on cybersecurity strategy, governance, risk priorities and customer assurance. Previously, he owned a global application-security and privacy program at AWS and managed and mentored security consultants at Trustwave.
For growing teams, that means practical leadership: deciding what to address first, assigning ownership, guiding implementation and communicating progress in business terms.
How vCISO pricing works
Scope, environment complexity, assurance needs and agreed cadence determine a tailored quote. We distinguish initial baseline and roadmap work from ongoing guidance, then agree the responsibilities and reporting needed for your team.
- A strategic buyer or enterprise customer is asking for a security owner and roadmap
- SOC 2, PCI, ISO 27001, or customer assurance work has outgrown informal ownership
- Security questionnaires and due diligence are slowing sales or producing inconsistent answers
- Leadership needs a risk view, priorities, and progress reporting without hiring a full-time CISO
- A current-state security baseline tied to business and customer priorities
- A risk-ranked roadmap with owners, milestones, and decision points
- Recurring leadership sessions, decisions, and action tracking
- Customer security questionnaire support and a reusable response library
- Evidence-library structure and guidance for SOC 2, PCI, or related work
- Vendor-risk decisions, incident-readiness exercises, and executive reporting as agreed
- Senior security leadership without a full-time hire
- Faster, more consistent responses to customer security reviews
- A defensible security roadmap aligned to product and business goals
- Clear executive reporting on material risks, decisions, and progress
- Baseline summary and prioritized risk register
- Security roadmap with named owners and practical milestones
- Reusable customer-assurance and questionnaire response library
- Decision log, recurring advisory notes, and executive security update
Four steps from scope to action
- 01
Define the scope
Align the engagement to business priorities, customer demands, and current security ownership.
- 02
Assess the environment
Establish the current control posture and the risks that matter most.
- 03
Prioritize the findings
Rank the decisions and improvements by business impact, urgency, and effort.
- 04
Deliver the action plan
Provide a practical roadmap with owners, milestones, and an advisory cadence.
What is outside scope
- Formal audit opinions and attestations belong to independent auditors or assessors; advisory support does not guarantee certification.
- A 24/7 security operations center and an incident-response retainer are not implied by vCISO advisory.
Questions we hear most
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- What Is a vCISO? What They Do and When to Hire One →A practical guide to responsibilities, fit, first steps, and questions to ask before selecting support.
- SOC 2 readiness →Focused scope, control, evidence, and independent-auditor handoff support.
- PCI and payment security →Select the PCI program that matches your role, systems, and payment flows.
Need accountable security leadership without a full-time hire?
Discuss the buyer pressure, assurance work, and security decisions your team needs help owning.