Virtual CISO
We run your security and compliance alongside your team, so deals close, diligence moves, and you stay focused on the business
A CISO is
no longer optional
Security without a lead. Security gets built measure by measure, framework by framework, with no one owning the whole.
A missing seat. Enterprises ask who owns your security. So do investors. So do auditors signing off your certification.
Reactive decision-making. Decisions get made under pressure: after the customer asks, after the incident, after the regulator emails.
Security leadership,
on demand
Compliance that scales
Senior ownership turns security into a strategy. Your security grows with the business, and the next framework is planned before a buyer asks for it.
Deals and audits keep moving
Enterprise buyers, investors and auditors get a senior, accountable owner of your security, by name, on the call, with the substance behind them.
Security, taken care of
Senior ownership of your security allows your team to stay focused on building rather than catching up.
Your CISO, without the hire
A vCISO runs your security and compliance alongside your team: senior, accountable, embedded from day one.
How we work
Discovery & Scoping
We assess your current state (maturity, frameworks in scope, team structure, risks, and business priorities) so the engagement is shaped to your situation, not a generic playbook.
Strategy & Roadmap
We build a security strategy aligned to your frameworks and business goals, with priorities, timelines, and clear ownership. Leadership and the board get a plan they can actually execute.
Implementation Support
We guide your team through rolling out security measures, policy design, and awareness, translating the strategy into practical changes across systems, processes, and people.
Ongoing Oversight
We run weekly or bi-weekly alignment sessions with your internal lead, maintain the risk register and policies, plan and document audits and management reviews, and adjust your security setup as your business scales, all inside the tools you already use.
Not advice. Ownership
Security uncompromised
We meet every week, keep your security setup in line with your roadmap and see security projects through. Between meetings, we're one chat message away.
Risks identified
We run risk workshops and keep your risk list up to date. Once a year we test your business continuity plan, and we coordinate your pen tests. If a major incident hits, we lead the response.
Team security-aware
Yearly awareness training, workshops on your real risks and a short quarterly newsletter. Enough to keep security on everyone's mind, and no more.
Leadership in the loop
We track security KPIs and report them in plain terms. We also prepare and run the yearly management review that certain frameworks require.
Audit and sales support
We join your audits as your external CISO. We answer customer security questionnaires and help with RFPs, so security helps you win deals.
- Free consultation
Trusted by teams
across Europe
A valuable team member gained.
ReadySecGo took us through our first ISO 27001 surveillance audit, which we passed cleanly. They've since taken on the position of our external CISO, bringing real technical expertise to the role.
Christian FriebelCTO · TecArtWe were fully prepared for our ISO 27001 external audit!
ReadySecGo ran our internal audit and got us ready for the external one. They worked with us as a team, understood the technical detail, and delivered structured findings in the Internal Audit Report, right on time.
Nikolas StrommengerISO · kobaltblauFrom zero to ISO 27001-compliant in 9 months.
We came to ReadySecGo with no prior compliance knowledge or experience. They took us through every step, and in just 9 months, we had an ISO 27001-compliant ISMS in place. The team was reliable, competent, and above all very reachable.
Ilias MichalariasCEO · SLASCONEThe external auditor was very impressed.
What I particularly liked about ReadySecGo was the speed, the flexibility, and how knowledgeable and engaged the team was. We had a very insightful internal audit. By the 2nd surveillance audit, every potential nonconformity had already been identified and addressed. The external auditor was very impressed.
Boris BudeckISO · XQueueWhy ReadySecGo
Our team actively audits for several accredited certification bodies across Europe. We know compliance from the inside out.
Not the right fit?
- Start hereGap AnalysisIf you want to find out what's missing for your certification, and get a roadmap to close the gaps.
- Once you’re runningISO 27001 Internal AuditIf you're going for ISO 27001 and need the internal audit the standard requires.
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A hire later, if at all
Get in touchA consultant delivers a project and moves on. A vCISO is embedded in your business, accountable for your security posture, available to your team, present in investor and customer conversations.
Six months minimum, with most engagements running 12 months or longer. The first months are about setting up your security. The value compounds from there.
We cannot sign legal documents but we can represent you externally: customer security reviews, investor diligence calls, auditor interviews.
No, and we'll tell you if you've outgrown the model. We run your security alongside your team, not in place of it. Your internal counterpart (usually a CTO, head of engineering, or compliance lead) remains the named owner inside the business. If you've already built out a senior internal security team, a full-time CISO is the right hire, not a vCISO.
Hands-on with your security strategy and processes, not with IT configurations. We don't take elevated access to your AWS, GitHub, or production systems. That's separation of duties, and crossing it would weaken your audit posture. We work alongside the people who do have that access, planning and reviewing the work rather than executing it.
Depends on stage and structure. A full-time CISO makes sense once you have a security team of 3–5+, regulated entity status that requires a named in-house officer, or security as a core part of your product. Below that, the cost of a full-time hire (€200k+ all-in) rarely justifies itself, but the role still needs filling. That's what a vCISO does.
No. We work inside whatever you already have: Vanta, Drata, Scytale, Notion, Jira, your existing stack. The retainer doesn't require you to adopt a new platform to make our engagement useful.