CISO as a Service
What We Do
Strategic cybersecurity leadership, embedded in your organization.
ArcSense delivers hands-on cybersecurity leadership across governance, operations, risk, and compliance. Acting as your virtual or fractional CISO, we help you build a secure foundation and drive ongoing maturity, aligned to your business priorities.
1. Strategy & Governance
We bring clarity and structure to your cybersecurity direction.
- Define cybersecurity strategy: Align your security priorities with business goals and risk appetite.
- Establish governance models: Set up security councils, reporting lines, and accountability structures.
- Create roadmaps for maturity: Develop phased, actionable plans to improve posture over time.
- Engage executives and the board: Translate complex risk into strategic decisions.
2. Security Operations & Incident Response
We lead and optimize your day-to-day security operations.
- Oversee security operations: Provide guidance to internal teams or MSPs on monitoring, alerting, and escalation.
- Lead incident response efforts: From playbook design to live crisis leadership.
- Build operational discipline: Define and enforce repeatable processes for access, patching, logging, and response.
- Support resilience planning: Strengthen recovery capabilities across technology and teams.
3. Compliance & Risk Management
We simplify compliance while managing cyber risk in context.
- Manage regulatory and framework compliance: Including ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST CSF, GDPR, HIPAA, and more.
- Support internal and external audits: Coordinate evidence gathering, remediation plans, and auditor communication.
- Develop security policies and training: Build policies people actually use—and foster security-aware culture.
- Perform and track risk assessments: Continuously identify, prioritize, and manage technical and business risk.
4. Vendor & Technology Guidance
We help you make confident, strategic technology decisions.
- Evaluate security solutions: Assess tools and vendors based on real needs, not buzzwords.
- Oversee technology implementation: Ensure chosen tools are deployed effectively and deliver value.
- Manage third-party risk: Establish vendor due diligence and monitoring practices.
Always Tailored to You
No two security programs look alike. We customize every engagement based on your sector, regulatory requirements, team structure, and risk profile, so your security function works for your business, not against it.