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Implementing A vCISO Into Your Organization

Now that you’ve settled on bringing a Virtual Chief Information Security Officer (vCISO) on board—great decision by the way—how do you seamlessly integrate them into your organization? Should you just let the process unfold naturally, or is there a structured approach...

Best Practices for Working with a vCISO

Are you looking to strengthen your organization's security measures? Don't know where to start? Organizations looking to strengthen their cybersecurity posture can greatly benefit from partnering with a Virtual Chief Information Security Officer (vCISO). A vCISO...

Incident Response Planning with a vCISO

Incident response planning with a virtual CISO. How can a virtual CISO help you with incident response planning? And today I'm going to cover two specific components and I'm going to pivot on that and show you two different ways to conduct one of those. So just to...

Minnesota Virtual CISO (vCISO) Service

Today’s cybersecurity challenges are overwhelming. Making a decision to reduce risk can be expensive. The peace of putting out yesterday’s fire doesn’t last long until you're required to respond to todays threat news.vCISO (Virtual Chief Information Security Officer)...

vCISO Cybersecurity Assessment What to Expect

Tony Asher discusses the process and expectations for a virtual CISO cybersecurity assessment. The assessment typically takes 4-6 weeks, followed by 2 weeks for report preparation and an additional week for stakeholder review, totaling 7 weeks. The process involves...

Comprehensive Services Offered by vCISOs

Good morning. Happy cyber day, wherever you are, whatever time of the day it is. Hey. Today we're talking about comprehensive services offered by virtual CISOs. What an interesting topic. I've been doing virtual CISO work for over five years, and I don't think there...

4 Benefits of Hiring a vCISO

Tony Asher, a virtual CISO, outlines four key benefits of hiring a virtual CISO. First, they can significantly advance a company's cybersecurity program by leveraging their expertise to overcome challenges and achieve maturity faster. Second, virtual CISOs offer...

How a vCISO Can Improve Your Cybersecurity Posture

Tony Asher discusses how a virtual CISO can enhance cybersecurity posture by first assessing the current state using "risk visibility," which involves understanding the sensitivity and movement of data. He emphasizes the importance of protecting data confidentiality,...

Virtual CISO for small business, is it worth it?

My name is Tony Asher. I'm the operator of Asher Security, and I've been doing virtual CISO work for over five years. One of the questions I get is, "is a virtual CISO worth it if we're a small business?" Definitely a hard question to ask. My initial answer would be...