Does Your Organization Have the Security Leadership It Needs?
Effective cybersecurity requires executive leadership — someone who can own the security strategy, communicate risk to the board, manage the security program, guide incident response, and ensure compliance obligations are met. But for many organizations — mid-market companies, fast-growing businesses, and organizations in transition — hiring a full-time Chief Information Security Officer is not practical or cost-justified.
Full On Consulting's virtual CISO (vCISO) services provide the senior security leadership your organization needs on a fractional basis. Our vCISO engagements are led by former CISOs, CTOs, and CIOs with deep enterprise security experience — not security consultants who have never sat in the chair. We bring genuine executive accountability, not just advisory opinions.
As your virtual CISO, we take ownership of your cybersecurity program — assessing your current security posture, developing your security strategy and roadmap, managing your security vendors and tools, overseeing compliance programs, and serving as your security spokesperson to the board, auditors, and regulators. We integrate with your leadership team and operate as a true extension of your organization, not a distant advisory service.
Our vCISO engagements are structured to meet your organization where it is — whether you need full program ownership, support for a specific compliance initiative, incident response leadership, or a board-ready security reporting capability. Engagements are typically structured as monthly retainers with defined scope and deliverables, giving you predictable cost and genuine accountability. When your needs change, we scale with you.
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Need senior security leadership but not a full-time CISO hire? Our virtual CISO service gives you executive-level security ownership at a fraction of the cost — with real accountability. Let's talk.
What Our Virtual CISO Services Include
SECURITY STRATEGY & PROGRAM OWNERSHIP
Full ownership of your cybersecurity strategy and program — developing your security roadmap, managing your security budget, overseeing your security team and vendors, and driving the initiatives required to measurably improve your security posture over time.
BOARD & EXECUTIVE REPORTING
Regular board- and C-suite-level cybersecurity reporting that communicates your risk posture, security program progress, and investment priorities in clear business language — fulfilling governance obligations and giving leadership the information needed to make confident security decisions.
COMPLIANCE PROGRAM OVERSIGHT
Ownership and management of your compliance obligations — NIST, SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and others — including gap assessment, controls implementation, policy development, audit preparation, and ongoing compliance monitoring to keep your program current and audit-ready.
INCIDENT RESPONSE LEADERSHIP
Executive-level leadership during security incidents — coordinating response activities, managing communications to leadership and external stakeholders, guiding forensic and remediation efforts, and ensuring lessons learned drive meaningful improvements to your security program.
SECURITY VENDOR MANAGEMENT
Oversight and management of your security vendor relationships — evaluating vendor capabilities, managing contract negotiations, overseeing service delivery, and ensuring your security technology investments are aligned with your risk priorities and delivering value.
SECURITY AWARENESS & CULTURE
Building a security-aware culture across your organization — designing and overseeing security awareness programs, phishing simulation campaigns, security training initiatives, and the internal communications required to make security a shared organizational responsibility.
Former CIOs and CTOs Leading Your Security Program
20+
Years of enterprise IT and security leadership — including CTO and CIO roles
$40M+
In documented client savings through technology and risk program transformation
100%
Senior security leaders — every vCISO engagement is led by an executive, not a junior analyst
WHY FULL ON CONSULTING
Senior Consultants Only
Every engagement is led and delivered by senior consultants — former CIOs, CTOs, and enterprise IT executives. You get the people you were sold, not a bait-and-switch to junior staff after the contract is signed.
$40M+ in Documented Savings
Our track record includes $40M+ in verified client savings, a $130M M&A integration across 90+ global facilities, and an end-user computing transformation for 18,000 employees. We deliver measurable outcomes — not just recommendations.
20+ Years of Enterprise Experience
Our consultants average 20+ years of enterprise IT experience across Fortune 500 and mid-market companies. We have run the same programs we are being asked to lead — across SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and large-scale transformations.
Strategy Through Execution
We do not hand you a strategy deck and walk away. Our teams stay engaged from initial assessment through go-live — accountable for outcomes, not just deliverables. If we recommend it, we are prepared to execute it.
Boutique Agility
As a boutique firm, we move faster, adapt to your priorities, and work with your team rather than around it. No bureaucracy, no layers of overhead — just focused, senior-led execution from day one.
A Partner, Not a Vendor
We build long-term relationships grounded in trust and integrity. Many of our clients have engaged us across multiple initiatives and refer us to peers — because we do what we say we will do, every time.
