COMPLIANCE & FRACTIONAL CISO
A security executive running your program — and the evidence to prove it.
TRINSEC 7 provides the security leadership most organizations can't justify hiring: someone who runs your program, maps it to the frameworks you're accountable to, and produces the documentation auditors, insurers, primes, and clients ask for. HIPAA, CMMC, NIST CSF, and 405(d) HICP.
Compliance isn't a document you buy once.
The usual approach is a project. You hire a consultant, they assess you, you get a binder, and the binder goes on a shelf. Nothing about how the organization actually operates changes. Then eighteen months later a prime contractor, an auditor, or a client's security team asks for evidence — not policies, evidence — and there isn't any.
The higher-stakes version is your cyber insurance application. Those questionnaires now ask specific questions about controls you either have or don't. Someone in your office answers them, usually your most technical person, usually optimistically. If those answers turn out to be wrong when you file a claim, the policy you've been paying for may not respond.
None of this is really a paperwork problem. It's that nobody in a 250-person organization has the standing, the time, or the specialized background to own security as a leadership function — so it lands on whoever is closest to the computers, which is not the same job at all.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
What a fractional CISO actually does.
A named executive
An expert running your program, who knows your organization and shows up for the hard conversations.
A program, not a report
We build and implement the controls, then run them. You don't receive recommendations to execute yourself.
Framework mapping
Your controls mapped to what actually applies to you, without paying for frameworks that don't.
Evidence, continuously
Documentation maintained as you go, so proof exists before someone asks for it.
Questionnaire and audit support
We complete security questionnaires, respond to auditors, and handle prime contractor flowdowns.
Leadership reporting
Where you stand, what changed, and what needs a decision, in language your board or partners can act on.
Vendor oversight
Third-party risk and business associate agreements reviewed and tracked.
HOW IT WORKS
How the engagement runs.
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Establish where you stand
An honest assessment against the frameworks that apply to you.
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Prioritize
What has to happen first, based on real risk and real deadlines, not a generic control list.
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Build and implement
We put the controls in place and operate them.
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Maintain the evidence
Documentation stays current as your environment changes.
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Represent you
When an auditor, insurer, prime, or client asks, we answer.
WHO IT’S FOR
Built for organizations under 250 people.
Scoped to what you're accountable to.
Compliance obligations vary enormously — a 30-person practice meeting HIPAA and a defense supplier facing CMMC Level 2 are different amounts of work. We scope this engagement to the frameworks that actually apply to you, and we'll tell you plainly which ones don't.
See what our monthly program coversMost engagements begin with a risk assessment to establish where you actually stand, and rest on the controls and logs produced by managed cybersecurity and 24/7 monitoring — because a framework asks for evidence, not intentions.