Virtual CISO (vCISO)
Executive security leadership without a full-time hire. Our virtual CISO sets your security strategy, manages risk, guides compliance and represents security to your board — scaled to what you actually need.
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Solvex specialists never ask for your passwords, recovery phrases, one-time codes, or payments to a personal account. Work, scope and invoices are agreed in writing through the official channels on this site.
What's covered
- Security strategy and roadmap development
- Risk management and governance leadership
- Compliance and audit programme oversight
- Security budget and vendor guidance
- Board and stakeholder reporting
- Incident and crisis leadership when needed
What you receive
- Security strategy and prioritised roadmap
- Risk register and governance framework
- Regular leadership reporting
- Board-ready security updates
- Ongoing advisory and decision support
Evidence and reporting
How the work is kept honest- Evidence, frozen at issuanceFindings tie to something observed. When the report is issued, the evidence behind it is frozen in the same transaction and cannot be edited afterwards.
- A signed reportAn Ed25519 signature covers both the report content and the delivered file. Alter a byte of either and verification fails.
- Written scope firstAdvisory work runs to a written scope agreed before it starts, so what you receive is what was agreed.
Anyone holding a Solvex report can verify it publicly without seeing its contents.
Our boundaries
What this engagement does not do, stated before it starts.
- Advisory leadership; hands-on delivery by your teams or separate engagements
- Time commitment scoped to your agreed retainer
- Not a substitute for operational security staff
- Strategic guidance, not legal or financial advice
How this engagement runs
- 01
Intake
Tell us the system, the goal and the constraints. If the work is not a good fit, we say so before anyone is invoiced.
- 02
Scope and authorization
Written scope and signed authorization before anything is touched. Security testing runs only against systems you own or are contractually entitled to have tested.
- 03
Investigation or build
Specialists matched to the work. Findings are proven by hand — scanner output is a lead, never a finding.
- 04
Evidence
Every finding ties to something observed. When a report is issued, its evidence is frozen in the same transaction, so what backed the report cannot change afterwards.
- 05
Delivery
A signed report: an Ed25519 signature over both the content and the file, with a short verification reference you can read down a phone.
- 06
Verification and retest
Anyone holding the report can verify it publicly without seeing its contents. Fixes are retested as part of the engagement — “fixed” means we confirmed it.
Questions we are asked
- How much time do we get?
- As much or as little as you need — from a few days a month for strategy and governance to deeper involvement during audits or incidents. We scope the retainer to your situation.
- Who is a vCISO right for?
- Organisations that need senior security leadership — for strategy, compliance or board assurance — but aren't ready for a full-time CISO. You get experienced leadership at a fraction of the cost.
- Can the vCISO lead us through certification?
- Yes. A common use is steering an ISO 27001 or SOC 2 programme, owning the strategy while coordinating the delivery work across your teams.
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