Executive security
A security officer on your letterhead — without the $250K hire
A vCISO (virtual chief information security officer) is a named senior security leader who owns your security program part-time: risk assessments, the roadmap, policy decisions, and the person who sits across from your board, auditor, or examiner. Z1 provides vCISO services as part of Complete or standalone.
Get My Free Gap AnalysisWhat's included
- A named security officer — one person, accountable, reachable
- Quarterly security review: risks, incidents, posture, priorities
- A security roadmap tied to your budget and your obligations
- Policy ownership: written, current, and actually followed
- Board and partner reporting in executive language
- The chair next to yours in audits, exams, and insurance reviews
Who it's for
Regulated businesses that need security leadership on paper and in practice — RIAs facing examiners, practices facing auditors, and any firm whose clients or board have started asking security questions the owner can't field alone.
Wealth management · Medical practices
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How it works
Assess
A structured risk assessment establishes where you are — the honest version, not the brochure version.
Roadmap
Risks become a prioritized, budgeted plan you can defend to a board or an examiner.
Govern
Quarterly reviews keep the program moving and the documentation current; when someone official asks questions, your vCISO answers them.
Common questions
Why not just hire a CISO?
A full-time CISO runs well into six figures, and a business under 150 people doesn't have full-time CISO work — it has quarterly-cadence leadership needs with occasional intensity around audits and incidents. A vCISO delivers the named accountability and the judgment at a fraction of the cost, backed by a whole team instead of one calendar.
What does the vCISO engagement look like quarter to quarter?
A quarterly review anchors it: risk posture, incidents, project progress, and the next quarter's priorities, reported in executive language. Between reviews, your vCISO owns policy decisions, fields the security questions that land on your desk, and steps in whenever an auditor, examiner, or carrier wants to talk to someone accountable.
How does your pricing work?
Flat monthly pricing per user — no hourly surprises, no invoice for every phone call. Where you land depends on headcount and how much compliance evidence your business needs, which is exactly what the free gap analysis scopes. You'll leave it knowing what you need, what you already have, and what closing the gap costs.
Get a security leader before someone asks who yours is
Start with the free gap analysis — it doubles as the first risk conversation.
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