Fractional CISO leadership for the whole security program

You may need Fractional CISO leadership when

• Security responsibilities are distributed, unclear, or dependent on one overstretched person.
• Leadership needs a defensible view of cyber risk, priorities, and investment.
• Security tools exist, but governance, response readiness, and accountability are inconsistent.
• Customers, regulators, insurers, or the board are asking questions the team cannot answer clearly.

What JLS owns

JLS provides executive security leadership across risk, governance, policies, incident readiness, third-party exposure, security strategy, and communication with leadership.

First-90-day engagement view

• Establish the current-state risk and responsibility baseline
• Prioritize the highest-consequence exposures and decisions
• Set an executive reporting and remediation cadence
• Build a practical roadmap for people, process, and technology

Selected client proof

Client: Chelsea Brown   Title: VP IT   Company: Santander

Business situation: Expanding threat vectors and rigorous regulatory expectations demanded executive security leadership without the full-time C-suite overhead.

JLS role: Fractional CISO

Outcome: Modernized the enterprise cybersecurity posture, elevated incident response readiness, and delivered board-level security reports.

“We needed CISO-level judgment without adding a C-suite headcount. What mattered to me was that the security reporting held up in front of our board — not just internally. Incident response went from something we assumed we could handle to something we had evidence for.”

Common questions

Is this an outsourced security operations service?

Not on its own — and JLS provides both. Fractional CISO leadership owns direction, governance, risk decisions, and execution oversight. Managed security delivers the day-to-day operations: monitoring, detection, and response. JLS is an MSSP Alert Top 250 provider, so the two can be engaged separately or together — with one accountable owner either way.

Who is this for?

Organizations that need senior security leadership but are not ready for, or do not currently need, a full-time CISO role.