vCISO & Fractional CISO Services in the UK
Senior security leadership without permanent headcount.
Senior CISO leadership integrated with your executive team: fractional, interim or retained. Hands-on, accountable, and embedded in your governance. Designed for UK-regulated firms, PE-backed scale-ups, and organisations covering a CISO gap.
02Typical triggers
When this service is on the desk.
- 01New regulatory scope (DORA, NIS 2, SMCR designation)
- 02M&A integration with security debt
- 03Board loss of confidence in the security function
- 04CISO departure or succession risk
- 05First-time CISO role being built
03Typical outputs
Artefacts that earn the audit, the customer or the board.
- ·Monthly board and audit committee reporting pack
- ·Risk register, KRI cadence and risk appetite framework
- ·Security strategy, target operating model and roadmap
- ·Regulator engagement and customer assurance support
- ·Day-90 transition pack for permanent successor
04Engagement shapes
Three ways the engagement is typically scoped.
SHAPE 01
Fractional
2–4 days per month. Steady cadence. Board cadence preserved.
SHAPE 02
Interim
3–6 months full-time. Stabilise, restructure, recruit.
SHAPE 03
Retained
Senior advisory and escalation on call for a permanent CISO.
DELIVERED BY
Paul Jolliffe
FOUNDER · INFOSECAI · MBA · CISSP · ISO 27001:2022 LA / LI / IA · PRINCE2 Practitioner
Twenty years of senior security leadership across financial services, healthcare, government, telecoms and technology. Engagements are senior from day one: no subcontracted juniors, no introduce-and-exit.