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CISO as a Service (CISOAAS)

Security leadership, guidance and agility

Quod Orbis can provide comprehensive outsourced CISO solutions to organisations of all sizes.

What is our CISO as a Service?

The Quod Orbis CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) as a Service supports your organisation to ensure oversight on your information security and risk strategy, policies and practices. We will support you to ensure that information assets are adequately protected from cybersecurity threats, data breaches and other security risks.

Offered as a flexible, cost-effective approach for your organisation to utilise our expertise, our CISO as a Service will tap into our expertise, tailored to your needs.

Why would I need a CISO as a Service?

Rapid Deployment

When facing a security incident or breach, organisations need immediate access to cybersecurity expertise. Our CISOaaS can be quickly engaged to address urgent security matters and guide your organisation through the incident response process.

Scalability

As your organisation's security needs evolve you can adjust the level of engagement with our CISO as a Service, making it easy to scale security efforts to your specific needs.

Cost-effectiveness

Hiring a full-time CISO, along with associated benefits and overheads, can be expensive. The QO CISO as a Service allows organisations to access high-level cybersecurity guidance without the same financial commitment of a full-time employee.

The QO Expertise

Tap into the expertise of our experienced cybersecurity professionals who have worked across various industries and have a wide range of security knowledge.

The QO Flexibility

Engage our CISO as a Service on a temporary or part-time basis, depending on your specific needs, without the commitment of a full-time hire.

The QO Objective Perspective

Our CISO experts can offer an objective viewpoint on your organisations’ security posture, identifying potential gaps and suggesting improvements.

Risk Management

We will assist in developing and implementing risk management strategies tailored to your organisations industry and size.

Compliance

The CISO as a Service can help ensure that your organisation complies with relevant industry standards and regulations.

How our CISOaaS works

There are a number of ways that your can utilise our CISO expertise:

Assessment & Planning

Our CISO as a Service offering can assess your organisations current cybersecurity posture. This might involve evaluating existing security policies, procedures, technologies, and identifying potential vulnerabilities and risks. Based on this assessment, we can support you to develop a tailored cybersecurity strategy and plan.

Strategy Development

Perhaps you need help with key stakeholders to develop a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy? This strategy could outline the goals, objectives, and initiatives that will be implemented to enhance your organisation’s security posture. It may include areas such as network security, data protection, employee training, incident response and compliance.

Implementation

Once the strategy is agreed upon, the CISO as a Service can assist in implementing the recommended cybersecurity measures. This could involve deploying security technologies, setting up firewalls, intrusion detection systems, encryption protocols and more. Our CISOaaS could also work with existing IT teams to ensure proper execution.

Policy & Procedure Development

Establish and refine cybersecurity policies, procedures, and guidelines to ensure that your internal teams are clearly communicated to on handling sensitive information, the use of company devices and how they should respond to security incidents. Creating clear policies helps maintain consistency in security practices across your business.

Risk Management

Our CISO as a Service can also support you to monitor and assesses the risk landscape, identifying emerging threats and vulnerabilities and adjusting your cybersecurity strategy accordingly. Regular risk assessments help organisations stay pro-active in addressing potential issues.

Incident Response

In the unfortunate event of a security breach or cyberattack, the QO CISOaaS can assist in managing the incident response process, containing the breach, mitigating its impact, communicating with relevant stakeholders and guiding you through recovery efforts.

Compliance

Regardless of industry, compliance has become key and is becoming increasingly challenging with constantly evolving regulatory change. Our CISOaaS can help support the compliance process, whatever the standard you need to comply with.

Ongoing Monitoring & Maintenance

Cybersecurity is an ongoing effort and monitoring your tech infrastructure is imperative. Our CISOaaS will be proactive by analysing logs and alerts, applying updates and patches where needed, helping to prevent potential security vulnerabilities from being exploited.

Reporting & Communication

We will develop reports for your leadership team, providing updates on the cybersecurity program’s effectiveness, current threats and recommend improvements.

Training & Awareness

Employee training is a critical aspect of cybersecurity. We can support your organisation with training sessions to educate employees about best practices, social engineering tactics and how to recognise and report suspicious activities.

Our Virtual CISO Service (vCISO)

We can of course offer support via our virtual CISO Service, which may be a more flexible option, where we can offer you the same services as our CISOaaS but remotely.

As well as our vCISO service, your organisation may also benefit from our continuous controls monitoring where you can monitor in real-time your cyber security infrastructure and create fully customisable reports. To find out more visit our CCM page.

FAQs

  • Leadership, advice and guidance via a highly experienced security professional.
  • An individual who will drive your organisation’s information security programme as an extension of your existing team.
  • An initial security assessment, followed by board-level engagement, representing agreed strategies, current status and key performance updates of implemented plans.
  • Coverage of regulatory compliance, data privacy and security architecture, as well as key liaison within your business.

Temporary or virtual c-level roles are increasingly popular across many industries and the CISO role is not exempt from this trend.

With our CISOaaS solution, companies can avoid the high financial cost and commitment of attracting and retaining a full-time CISO, as well as having the flexibility to mix new and emerging skill sets with existing roles and expertise.

  • The advantages of an in-house, full-time CISO, without the associated overheads and recruitment challenges.
  • A cost-effective way of maintaining information security systems and managing risk.
  • An extension to your organisation’s digital risk management capabilities.
  • An ongoing security presence, to manage compliance and mitigate breaches.

Our relationship is centered on what areas you need specific expertise in. Whether it is reviewing your current cyber security operations, guidance on your digital transformation and overall strategic planning, or very specific projects focused on GRC, we have the team that can support your objectives.

It’s exceedingly important that our team take the time to review what your overall business objectives are. That way we can work with your senior leadership and operational teams to align and develop a cohesive cyber security plan. 

Costs are directly related to the services you require so these will be bespoke to the services we offer you.  

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Mark works with SMEs and charities to develop strategies to help them grow and access development capital. He is a NED, charity trustee and mentor to a wide range of people. His plural career started in 2017 after 16 years at pwc as a Deals partner working with large corporates and PE houses; at pwc he also ran the Retail and Consumer practice and was Chairman of the pwc UK Supervisory Board. Prior to pwc he was an executive director at Welcome Break and Iceland Group, and a partner at Bain and Company. He trained as an engineer at Imperial College and has an MBA from INSEAD. 

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Eamon is a highly regarded and massively respected technology career professional as well as serial entrepreneur. He has started, grown and successfully taken to market three technology business.

Genuinely expert in technology, Eamon has enjoyed long-term working relationships with many of the world’s top companies and organisations in finance, banking, government, manufacturing, engineering, technology and the charities sector.

He draws on unparalleled contacts and experience and provides advice, solutions and recommendations, as well as helping respond to emergencies. Eamon has grown in-house and client teams and has a gift for hiring great people.

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Peter has the ability to do what many fail to and that is to consistently bring together highly professional teams and build a business environment that is supportive, agile, professional and where everyone enjoys coming into the office.

Bringing a unique blend of business acumen and technical knowledge to the role of non-exec director, Peter has already demonstrated his ability to bring an exceptional flair for dealing with complex situations with a clear, considered approach.

Personally, Peter brings humility and a strong moral compass to the team. His disarming and self-deprecating approach wins everyone over.

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Anwen has worked in B2B and B2C marketing for over 20 years. From transforming end-to-end customer journeys in retail with strategic customer-centric plans to target driven focused strategies for B2B sales. With extensive experience in digital marketing including SEO, as well as Brand development, she loves to develop a cohesive approach to brand image and communications to drive and develop the business proposition and perception.

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Alice has worked in the IT industry for 20 years. Starting in Procurement, she moved into Software Asset Management before transitioning into Customer Success Management. Working across a variety of roles for different industries as both a customer and a service provider has given her a great understanding of what makes a great service. She has always been passionate about building and maintaining great customer relationships and helping her customers achieve their goals.

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Owain has spent nearly a decade building software solutions and products within the cyber security sphere for the likes of government entities, large telecommunication companies, banks and card transaction companies.

This level of experience allows him to swiftly identify business and security processes that can be streamlined with automation, increase the efficiency of existing processes, as well as generate insightful data visualisations and models for members of an organisation at each different level.

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Ami is a finance sector career professional, with many years’ experience working in financial services, both in London and throughout the UK. In addition to financial control, she looks after HR and legal for the company.

Being a mother of two also equips her with the basic skills required to manage a senior team of management and technology consultants.

Ami’s sense of balance and perspective is an essential ingredient of the Quod Orbis culture.

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Alastair has spent the last 20 years working in Cyber Security and Risk Management. He is a passionate believer that security solutions should enable a business to take advantage of all the benefits of the digital world, while not putting the organisation’s data or productivity at risk.

Alastair has developed high-performing teams in some of the industry’s most competitive markets and launched new innovative technologies to market.

Being a rugby coach, and also having four sons at home, means he has lots of experience in keeping a passionate team in order but always has time for some fun!

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Gary has 15 years’ experience in senior technology roles, and has already been closely involved in starting and taking two technology companies to market.

Totally comfortable with a fast-moving, state-of-the-art technical landscape, he helps his clients maintain and improve security and compliance.

He has a reputation for delivering pragmatic and easy to maintain solutions – business owners and managers enjoy knowing that the security and compliance is well managed and automated, properly instrumented and reported at a competitive cost point.

Honest, open, unflappable and very social, Gary is trusted by many household-name organisations to protect their, and their client’s data.

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Martin is an experienced technology and organisational transformation specialist and an excellent, proven leader and communicator in mission-critical operations, particularly in security technology.

Over the past 20 years, multi-billion pound commercial organisations, including global banks, utilities and major investment funds have trusted Martin to transform their operations to meet financial, operational and compliance targets.

Martin optimises operations, managing and transforming operational teams of between 50 and 500 people, to deliver the highest levels of audit compliance, risk management and financial efficiency.

Often working with other major consultancies and suppliers for new global corporate owners or management teams, Martin will help integrate and streamline operations on a global basis.

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