Virtual CISO Services
Strategic security leadership for UK businesses that need a CISO-level perspective without a full-time hire. We provide fractional CISO services that give you the governance, strategy, and board reporting a growing business needs.
What a Virtual CISO Actually Does
A vCISO provides strategic security leadership on a fractional basis — giving you CISO-level expertise at a fraction of the cost of a full-time hire.
Security Strategy & Roadmap
Building a security strategy that fits your business stage, your threat landscape, and your compliance obligations — with a prioritised roadmap your technical team can execute against.
Risk Governance
Owning your security risk register, reviewing risks regularly, and advising your leadership team on where to invest in controls. Connecting security decisions to business outcomes.
Board-Level Reporting
Translating technical security issues into business language for your board and investors. Regular reporting on security posture, incidents, and risk — in a format non-technical stakeholders can understand and act on.
Incident Leadership
Leading your response when something goes wrong — coordinating technical teams, managing communications, and ensuring you meet your ICO breach reporting obligations within the 72-hour window.
What KEWDATA Does as Your vCISO
We act as your Chief Information Security Officer — attending leadership meetings, reviewing security investments, and keeping your security programme moving.
Security Programme Assessment
An initial review of your current security posture — policies, controls, tooling, and gaps — to give us a baseline and you an honest view of where you stand.
Security Strategy Development
Building a 12-month security roadmap tied to your business growth, your regulatory obligations, and the threats most relevant to your sector and data.
Policy and Framework Management
Creating and maintaining your security policies, acceptable use policy, incident response plan, and disaster recovery plan — so you have documentation that reflects how you actually operate.
Vendor and Third-Party Security
Reviewing security questionnaires from enterprise clients, completing security due diligence on your vendors, and representing you in security discussions with partners and customers.
Certification Support
Guiding your journey to ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials, or Cyber Essentials Plus — as a commercial requirement, an investor expectation, or a regulatory need.
Ongoing Retainer
Available on a monthly retainer basis — with a set number of days per month covering strategy meetings, incident support, and ad hoc advice. Scales with your needs.
Who Needs a Virtual CISO?
A vCISO makes sense for businesses that need strategic security leadership — but where a full-time CISO hire isn't justified yet.
Series A to Series C
Enterprise clients and investors are asking harder security questions. A vCISO helps you answer them credibly and build a programme that scales with you.
Financial Services & Healthcare
FCA and PRA expectations around operational resilience require security governance that goes beyond IT. A vCISO connects your security controls to your regulatory obligations.
Bridging a CISO Gap
Your CISO has left and you need cover while you recruit. We bridge the gap — keeping your security programme running and your board informed.
Pre-Investment Security Readiness
Preparing for investor due diligence or a sale? We get your security documentation investor-ready and your posture defensible under scrutiny.
ISO 27001 or Cyber Essentials
Pursuing certification for a client requirement or board mandate. A vCISO drives the programme and keeps momentum when internal teams are stretched.
Post-Incident Recovery
Following a breach or near-miss, a vCISO leads the review, improves your controls, and helps rebuild confidence with your board and regulators.
Tom S.
Medical Practice
"Improved control over sensitive medical data"
"Practical guidance on access controls and data protection. Helped define structured access policies and introduced tokenisation for patient identifiers used in analytics."
Sarah S.
Retail, Enterprise
"Reliable partner for telecom data protection"
"Quickly understood telecom data complexity; helped classify sensitive datasets and apply protection measures for subscriber, usage, and billing data."
Pauliina H.
Entertainment, Enterprise
"Effective support for securing customer data"
"Identified where sensitive data lived and applied tokenization and anonymization strategies in a complex telecom environment."
Jordan R.
Computer Networking
"Practical approach to safeguarding e commerce"
"Helped protect PII, payment data, and order histories with tokenization and anonymization; advised on GDPR compliance for international operations."
Charmaine S.
Int. Trade & Development
"Systematic Approach Enhances Data Security"
"Methodical approach through discovery, planning, and implementation; implemented Microsoft Purview for a scalable compliance framework."
Kateryna H.
IT and Services
"Practical approach to protecting sensitive Data"
"Structured data discovery and classification combining technical analysis with finance data privacy expertise; strong masking and tokenization policies."
Snow D.
Market Research
"Practical expertise for telecom information"
"Introduced tokenization and controlled access strategies for subscriber data while still supporting analytics and reporting."
Laura H.
Hospital & Health Care
"Valuable expertise in healthcare protection"
"Strong expertise in healthcare data security; introduced anonymization techniques for safely using patient data in research and reporting."
Get strategic security leadership without a full-time hire.
Tell us your size, your sector, and what you need covered, and we will scope a vCISO engagement that fits your budget and timeline.
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