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Fractional CISO for Financial services

An accountable security leader who owns risk, satisfies the regulator, and unblocks the deal — part-time.

Why it matters in financial services

Money, sensitive data, and a regulator that expects evidence. Trust is the product, and operational resilience is now a board-level obligation — not an IT line item.

  • Standing up a credible security and risk function that the FCA and PRA will recognise
  • Operational resilience: identifying important business services and proving you can stay within impact tolerances
  • Shipping product fast without tripping over change-management and audit expectations
  • Third-party and cloud concentration risk across a growing supplier estate

What you get

  • Security strategy and a risk-led, prioritised improvement plan
  • Governance: policies, risk register, and a working risk committee
  • Readiness for ISO 27001, SOC 2, Cyber Essentials, and customer security reviews
  • Incident response planning, tabletop exercises, and supplier assurance
  • Board reporting that translates risk into decisions

Frameworks & standards

FCAPRAOperational resilience (PS21/3)NIST CSFISO 27001

How we work in financial services

We act as the accountable CTO or CISO who can speak to a regulator and an engineer in the same afternoon — building the controls, the evidence, and the resilience story without grinding delivery to a halt.