Virtual Cybersecurity team

Virtual Cybersecurity Team

Enterprise engineering talent without the enterprise payroll

Every security program needs someone to design the segmentation, write the automation, review an architecture before a change ships, and work out whether a product does what the vendor says. A fifty-person company cannot keep that bench on payroll. Between projects it would sit idle.

Your Virtual Cybersecurity Team is that bench. Seasoned architects and engineers, directed by your Stoic vCISO. Together they cover cloud, network, identity, on-premises virtualization, application security and operational technology.

We work without write access

We review device management, identity and firewall logs through read-only, least-privilege accounts. If that data lives in your MSP's tools, we work out with them how to get it. Our findings come to you. The changes get made by whoever already holds the keys.

Where vulnerability scanning has to run inside your network, we ship our own appliance and you plug it in. Nothing is installed on your hardware. Our accounts are read-only and our scanner is a box on a port. Neither can change anything. You can unplug the box.

Every vendor you let inside your network becomes a vendor you have to assess. We built this one to be easy to assess.

What your Virtual Cybersecurity Team does

• Checks your endpoints and scans for vulnerabilities on our own software

• Responds when there is an incident

• Designs the architecture and reviews changes before they ship

• Writes the pipelines and infrastructure as code your IT team or MSP deploys

• Evaluates products and vendors against what they actually do

Security architecture and secure implementation

The usual pattern is a security review the week before launch. By then the design is fixed. Every finding becomes a change order or an exception.

A CNC machine that isn't segmented is a head crash waiting to happen. An OT system exposed to the internet is on a hostile nation state's target list. An ERP system that isn't hardened is a financial report in the newspaper instead of the boardroom. A patient portal built without a security review is a breach notification letter with your logo on it.

Our architects join at the start of every major project, built or bought. Threat modeling happens before the design is final. Segmentation, identity and least-privilege access, secrets management and logging go into the design itself.

For a purchase, the vendor's configuration gets reviewed and hardened before it touches your network. For software you build, the work is DevSecOps: security checks in the CI/CD pipeline, dependency scanning, infrastructure as code reviewed before it deploys, and secure configuration defined once and applied everywhere.

The compliance requirements your vCISO identified are in the design from the first week. The project goes live compliant.

What is delivered to you

Some engagements end in a document you keep: an architecture, a runbook, a review memo, pipeline code your team now owns. Others end in a risk register with fewer lines on it, or automation that took three months off a project.

Three months back on the calendar is hard to hold in your hands. No executive has ever handed it back.

How it works with your IT team or MSP

We design the change and write the automation. Your IT team or MSP deploys it and keeps day-to-day hands on your systems. One architect setting the technical direction costs you less than a second team working in parallel. Where you have an MSP, the implementation hours stay with them.

It comes with your vCISO

Engineering without direction builds whatever is loudest. Your vCISO decides what matters and in what order. The Virtual Cybersecurity Team builds the technical items on that list. It is only available alongside a vCISO engagement.

What it costs

Most clients start with an engineer and an architect as staff augmentation for the first few months. The team comes back when the work does: an acquisition, a major growth cycle, an ERP rollout or another large deployment.

Your vCISO's first months often surface risks nobody had written down. Some of those need engineering. You decide which. That is why the team's size follows the work.

It is charged on top of your vCISO engagement. You pay for it while it is working. When the project ends, so does the charge.

Talk to an architect

Bring the thing you are stuck on: the segmentation design, the pipeline nobody owns, the product you are about to buy, the acquisition that closes next quarter.