Most mid-market companies do not need a full-time CISO. They need CISO-caliber leadership on the cadence the business actually demands. Virteva’s Virtual CISO service pairs an experienced security executive with the operational backbone of a Microsoft Security Solutions Partner and ServiceNow Elite Partner, so the strategy your vCISO writes is the strategy our SOC operates.
A typical engagement starts with an IT maturity and advisory assessment that baselines your environment, controls, and risk register. From there, your vCISO builds a multi-year roadmap, sets a quarterly review cadence with leadership, and takes accountable ownership of the program: vendor selection, budget guidance, compliance posture, incident response readiness, and board communication. When a real incident happens, you have command-and-control already in place.
Because Virteva runs your service desk, 24/7 security operations, and infrastructure on a single ServiceNow platform, with managed detection and response on Microsoft Defender XDR handling alerts in real time, the vCISO has a live evidence library to draw from. Cyber insurance questionnaires, audit responses, and board decks come from timestamped records rather than tribal memory. Engagements scale from a few hours per month for governance and reporting up to multi-day-per-week leadership during a major program or M&A integration.