Advisory
Senior Cybersecurity Leadership Without Adding a Full-Time Security Executive
Many organizations need security judgment more than they need another security tool. Fractional leadership provides experienced direction at the level of engagement the organization actually requires.
Fractional Security Leadership
Direction, prioritization, and translation
A full-time security executive is a significant commitment, and many organizations are not at the point where the role is justified. What they are missing is not headcount. It is someone accountable for deciding what to do first, saying no to the wrong investments, and explaining security posture to people who do not work in security.
Fractional security leadership fills that gap. The engagement can be scoped as ongoing advisory time, a defined project, or interim coverage during a transition, and it works alongside your existing IT team, MSP, or internal security staff rather than replacing them.
Independent by design. Craft Consulting Solutions is a consulting company, not a security-product reseller. Recommendations are based on your risk and technical requirements rather than on the need to sell a particular platform.
Because the same practice performs hands-on technical testing, advisory recommendations stay grounded in how systems are actually attacked, not only in what a framework says should exist.
Scope
What fractional leadership covers
Engagements are assembled from the areas where you need coverage. Few organizations need all of them at once.
- Cybersecurity strategy
- Security governance
- Risk management
- Security budgeting
- Security roadmap development
- Executive reporting
- Board reporting
- Vendor risk
- Security project oversight
- Security architecture
- Vulnerability management
- Incident-response planning
- Security metrics
- Security awareness
Defined Engagements
Advisory services delivered as discrete projects
If ongoing advisory time is not the right fit, these engagements have a clear beginning, end, and deliverable.
01
Security Roadmap Development
A sequenced, budgeted plan that turns a list of gaps into a program. The roadmap establishes what happens in the next quarter, the next year, and the year after, with dependencies made explicit and effort estimated realistically against the resources you actually have.
- Current-state baseline
- Prioritized initiative sequencing
- Effort and budget estimation
- Dependency and resourcing analysis
- Executive-ready summary
02
Policy & Governance Development
Security policies, standards, and procedures written to fit how your organization actually operates. Policy that nobody follows creates audit risk without reducing security risk, so documents are scoped to what can genuinely be enforced.
- Policy set development and revision
- Standards and procedures
- Roles and accountability
- Exception and risk-acceptance process
- Governance cadence and oversight
03
Vendor / Third-Party Risk Management
A workable process for evaluating the security of vendors and partners, sized to your organization. Includes support on both sides of the questionnaire: assessing your vendors, and responding credibly when your customers assess you.
- Vendor risk process design
- Assessment criteria and tiering
- Contract and security-requirement review
- Ongoing monitoring approach
- Customer security questionnaire support
04
Incident Response Planning
An incident response plan that works under pressure: defined roles, decision authority, escalation criteria, communication paths, and the specific playbooks for the incident types most likely to affect your environment.
- Incident response plan development
- Roles, authority, and escalation
- Scenario playbooks
- Internal and external communication
- Legal, insurer, and regulatory touchpoints
05
Cybersecurity Tabletop Exercises
Facilitated, scenario-driven exercises that put the plan in front of the people who would have to execute it. Exercises can be run for technical responders, for executive decision-makers, or for both together.
- Scenario design for your environment
- Technical and executive sessions
- Injects and decision points
- Observations and gap analysis
- Post-exercise action plan
06
Executive & Board Reporting
Security reporting that a non-technical audience can act on: posture, trend, material risks, what is being done about them, and what decisions are being asked of the board. Includes support in the room when that helps.
- Board and executive materials
- Security metrics that mean something
- Risk register and treatment reporting
- Investment justification
- Meeting participation
Ongoing advisory
A recurring commitment measured in days per month, with continuity across quarters and a standing point of contact for security decisions.
Defined project
A roadmap, policy set, incident response plan, or tabletop exercise delivered as a discrete engagement with a fixed scope.
Interim coverage
Bridge support during a leadership transition, a major initiative, or a period of elevated scrutiny from customers or insurers.
Discuss security leadership
Engagements range from a defined project, such as a roadmap or policy set, to an ongoing advisory relationship measured in days per month.