Aaron Pritz
Stop Renting a Toolset. Start Owning a Strategy.
In recent years, the vCISO market has been flooded by providers that prioritize technology sales.
Many of these vCISO programs are available from cyber-SaaS tool providers and value-added resellers (VARs). While providing some level of security program organization, there is an inherent conflict of interest in these partnerships which can result in skewed or limited guidance and massive blind spots.
Companies in 2026 need holistic, risk-based cyber programs with tool-agnostic leadership.
Our Independent, Risk-Based Approach
At Reveal Risk, we don’t believe in one-size-fits-all cyber program solutions and ad-hoc, tool-adjacent guidance. That is to say – we believe that technology plays a vital role in a well-thought-out cybersecurity program, but it must be an enabler for processes and people. Approaching vCISO services with consideration for process and people, where technology enables them to succeed, results in a program that appropriately manages cyber risk for the business.
We use industry accepted frameworks like the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 as a foundation to assess and strategize, but we tailor our program design to a company’s needs based upon industry risk, individual company risk, compliance goals, and organizational complexity.
To achieve this, we bring an experienced team with diverse skills that have spent time in organizations like yours, not just an individual consultant or ad-hoc advisor. We focus on your organization’s unique needs and business risk reduction needs. While focusing on process and people, we address the “technology as an enabler” concept by helping manage tool sprawl, overspend and usage of in-place technology.
Our goal in our vCISO engagements is to drive change through hands-on strategy development, operationalization of strategic initiatives, and provide exceptional ongoing operational support. We can function as an extension of an existing team or bring our own team to build and run your cybersecurity program.
Options for Every Organization
For SMB and Mid-Market Companies (without dedicated cyber leadership and/or in-house support): We understand the trade-offs our SMB and mid-market clients need to make to build and operate a strong cyber program. Reveal Risk can support organizations without a cyber team by bringing experienced team members in to build your security program from a greenfield or improveancient/existing programs. We leverage our advisory skills to build a strategy, then focus our efforts to enable it and provide ongoing operational support for the program. We are your security team.
We consistently operate in client environments that are augmented by Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and understand that they may provide some level of security services. Reveal Risk has the experience to evaluate with our clients and MSPs to understand what's working and not working, and then tailor our engagement and role in your organization that enables ongoing collaboration with existing MSPs.
For Larger Companies (with more in-house cyber talent and leadership): For companies with dedicated security resources, we have found highly effective ways to become a force multiplied by“wrapping around” existing in-house talent. Our team speaks the languages of IT as fluently as they do executive and board buy-in, meaning we can assist an organization internally as well as externally, leveraging existing relationships to achieve the best business and security outcomes.
Reveal Risks focuses on more than just playing a cyber-advisor role, often acting as an extension of the cyber leadership team to address issues, drive strategy execution, and address operational activities. Additionally, our CISO Office Support services expedite and improve efficiency across the entire cyber program.
Our Experience
What sets Reveal Risk apart is our depth of expertise. With a combined tenure of over 200 years on the corporate side, our full-scale cyber consulting practice was initially built for large companies; we’ve been there, and we can help.
We infuse insights from both our broader consulting services and real-world corporate experience into every vCISO engagement. This allows us to deliver lasting outcomes that are tailored to the size and scale of each company we support. More importantly, we help the internal team be more successful by focusing on their strengths and abilities, so they are not stretched into areas where they do not have the depth.
How We Will Support You
Our process begins with a technical and program evaluation phase, which surfaces insights to help build your strategy and roadmap. From there we will define the level of engagement to help you build, execute, and/or operate the program.
- Evaluate: Select assessment options (Program Assessment, Security Tech Review, Configuration Assessment, Penetration Testing, Cyber AI Readiness) that help you understand where your cybersecurity program and/or IT technical controls are today. Get a reality check!
- Plan: Build a strategic cyber program roadmap with any required, or desired, compliance alignment to regulatory needs, goals, or customer expectations (SOC 2, ISO, CMMC, HIPAA, NIS 2). Skip the AI- or junior-analyst generated map; we respond to your real needs within the real, active threat landscape.
- Execute/Operate: Determine the most appropriate and desired support model based upon your needs.
- vCISO/Managed Cyber Program: For SMBs and mid-sized companies with no or new program and/or for clients with minimal security staff
- Fractional CISO: For clients without a cyber leadership that needs experiences leader to develop and enable a strategy
- CISO Office Support: IT or cyber leaders with an internal team who need additional support for these programs and strategic guidance.
You can get started with a free hour-long ‘program needs assessment’ with an expert, right now. We’ll discuss what you have in place today and how we can best position to support your company.
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