Supporting Service · Security Leadership
Fractional Chief Information Security Officer services scoped specifically for OT and ICS environments. Board-ready risk reporting, vendor governance, audit liaison, and incident-response oversight for Pacific Northwest data centers, manufacturers, and utilities — without the cost or commitment of a full-time CISO hire.
Engagement length
12-month retainer
Typical hours
8–32 hrs/mo
Reporting cadence
Quarterly
Region
Oregon · WA · ID
Who this is for
Mid-Market Operators
$50M–$500M revenue facilities and operators that need security leadership maturity but cannot justify a $300K+ full-time CISO. Our vCISO sits on your leadership team, attends quarterly board meetings, and runs the OT security program.
IT Security Leads with Inherited OT Scope
CISOs and security directors with deep IT background who have inherited OT responsibility and need a senior practitioner who can mentor the team and represent OT risk to the board.
Boards & Investors
Audit committees and PE-backed operators who need an independent voice on OT cyber risk — specifically someone who can ask the operations team the questions internal IT cannot.
What you get
Board-ready risk reports that translate OT exposure into business impact. Audit committee narrative, regulatory horizon scanning, and remediation roadmap status.
A 12–36 month roadmap built around your facility's threat profile, regulatory environment, insurance posture, and operational constraints — not generic frameworks.
Independent reviews of OT vendors, integrators, and managed-service providers. Contract risk language for security obligations. Annual vendor risk attestations.
SOC 2 OT scope advocacy. Cyber-insurance underwriter engagement. PCI DSS, IEC 62443, NIS2 readiness representation.
OT-specific tabletop exercises with operations, IT, and the MSP. Documented isolate-or-continue decision trees. Named escalation availability when a real event hits.
Working sessions with your IT security leads, plant engineering, and operations to build OT security fluency — so the program survives the engagement.
Frequently asked
An OT vCISO is a fractional Chief Information Security Officer with deep operational technology and industrial control system expertise. We provide board-level security leadership, program strategy, vendor governance, audit liaison, and incident response oversight for facilities that need senior judgment without the cost or commitment of a full-time CISO hire.
A generalist vCISO covers IT, identity, cloud, and corporate compliance — but typically does not have hands-on OT experience. Our OT vCISO engagements are led by practitioners who run penetration tests against PLCs and SCADA, who understand IEC 62443, who can read a Purdue Model diagram, and who can speak to plant operations and controls engineers in their own language.
Quarterly board-ready risk reports, OT security program roadmap and governance, vendor and integrator risk reviews, incident response readiness and tabletop exercises, audit and cyber-insurance liaison, executive-level coaching for IT security leads, and rapid escalation availability when a real OT event hits.
Most OT vCISO engagements run 8 to 16 hours per month on a 12-month retainer, with a defined scope of board reporting cadence, working sessions with your operations and IT teams, and named escalation availability. Larger facilities or multi-site programs may scale to 32+ hours per month.
Yes. Our vCISO engagements primarily serve Pacific Northwest data centers, manufacturers, water utilities, and critical infrastructure across Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. Quarterly on-site sessions are standard.
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