Capabilities - Audit, frameworks, fractional CISO
Governance, risk and compliance
Security leadership for organizations not ready to hire it.
What that means in practice
- Fractional CISO: risk register, control roadmap, board-legible reporting
- Audit readiness and evidence design for SOC 2, PCI DSS, HIPAA and GDPR
- Federal and critical-infrastructure frameworks including NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171 and NERC CIP
- Certification and accreditation processes for regulated and government-adjacent systems
- Third-party and supply chain risk assessment
- Security questionnaires that are currently blocking your sales cycle
- Depth
- Worked both sides of the audit: certification auditing first, then fractional CISO delivery against SOC 2, PCI DSS, HIPAA and the NIST 800 series. Held CISSP, CISM and CISA for years; lapsed and not maintained.
- Who I bring in
- Audit and attestation partners, assessors, legal and privacy counsel.
- Scoping this
- Tell me which framework and which deadline. That is usually enough to scope it.
Where I write about this
The newsletter follows what is changing here: one drawing, one decision worth revisiting, one tool used in anger, and what I am seeing across the network. Research worth reading gets cited when it changes a decision.
Adjacent
Rarely just one domain.
Most engagements touch three or four. These are the ones that usually come with it.
- R&D and special projects Feasibility, prototypes, hard problems
- RF, electromagnetics and analog Circuits, antennas, spectrum
- Semiconductor and programmable logic VLSI, ASIC, FPGA
- Embedded systems and device drivers Firmware, kernel, board bring-up
- Hardware manufacturing and supply ODM, DFM, certification
- Industrial automation and controls Robotics, SCADA, OT
- Software engineering Systems, automation, quality
- Cloud and infrastructure architecture Hybrid, containers, automation
- Security engineering Architecture, identity, testing
- Water, power and energy systems Treatment, generation, infrastructure
- Technical leadership and advisory Robotics, capital projects, family offices