A structured virtual CISO program for organizations that need a security leader at the table — not another tool, and not a $250,000 salary.
The tools are usually in place. Someone is patching, someone is watching the endpoints, the backups are probably running. What's missing is the person who decides what actually matters — and who can defend that decision to a board, an insurer, or your largest client.
A full-time CISO runs $180,000 to $250,000 a year, fully loaded. For most mid-size organizations that math never works. So the role goes unfilled, and the decisions land on whoever happens to be closest to IT.
Most virtual CISO arrangements are a block of hours and a standing call. This is a program with defined phases, named deliverables, and a maturity score that moves. You always know what phase you're in and what comes out of it.
If something is actively on fire — a live incident, an exposed system, a lockout — that gets handled first. Nobody in a crisis needs a governance conversation. The program begins once you're stable.
Baseline posture, critical assets, and the risks that actually threaten the business. Produces your Initial Assessment Report.
Your foundational policy set — drafted here, finalized after the technical work confirms what the environment really looks like.
Hands-on evaluation: external and internal review, directory audit, and consolidated findings with prioritized remediation.
Turning policy into procedures your team will actually follow — patching, backup and recovery, onboarding, change management.
Detection capability, a tabletop exercise, and alignment scored against CIS Controls v8 and NIST CSF.
Executive reporting leadership can act on, plus a forward plan. A material change re-opens scope immediately — no waiting on an annual cycle.
Every engagement opens with the Cover6 Baseline — a fixed-scope, fixed-price assessment delivered within two weeks. You see exactly where you stand before committing to anything long-term. And if we continue together, the Baseline fee is credited toward your program.
Existing controls, gaps and risks ranked by business consequence, and prioritized recommendations. Written for leadership, not engineers.
A phased 30/60/90 plan sequenced to what your team can genuinely absorb alongside daily operations.
Your maturity baseline against CIS Controls v8, with targets. Reassessed quarterly, so the trend line is measured rather than assumed.
A live walkthrough with leadership. Questions answered directly, in business terms, by the person who did the work.
Straight answers save everyone time. Here's where this works — and where it doesn't.
The Cover6 Framework is delivered by Tyrone E. Wilson, founder and CEO of Cover6 Solutions — not handed to a rotating bench. Thirty years across military cyber operations, incident response, penetration testing, and executive security advisory. The person who assesses your environment is the person who sits in front of your board.
U.S. Army cybersecurity background · Carnegie Mellon CISO Executive Program · Engagements across enterprise, nonprofit, higher education, and the defense industrial base · Sat in the Acting CISO seat and ran a CMMC Level 2 program end to end · Founder of one of the largest cybersecurity communities in the United States
Your MSP runs the controls. A vCISO decides whether those controls match your actual risk, and answers to leadership for that judgment. Different jobs — and asking your MSP to grade its own work isn't a fair position to put them in.
Programs are priced by scope and the level of ongoing involvement you need. Every engagement starts with a fixed-price Baseline, so there are no open-ended hours. We'll walk through real numbers on the first call — you'll have them well before you're asked to decide anything.
Less than you'd expect, by design. No more than three action items are open with your team at any time, plus a short recurring check-in. Programs stall when they overwhelm the people running daily operations, so pacing is built into the method rather than bolted on.
Yes. Phase 0 exists for exactly that. If something is actively wrong, it gets triaged first and the program starts once you're stable. You won't be walked through a policy conversation while a system is exposed.
Yes. CMMC readiness and NIST 800-171 are active parts of the practice, including current Acting CISO work on a Level 2 program. Cover6 is also SDVOSB certified, which can carry additional value for prime contractors managing small-business subcontracting goals.
You should have a documented, operating security program and a maturity score you can defend. The work shifts from building to stewarding — quarterly reassessment, policy upkeep, questionnaire and audit support, tabletop exercises, and risk reporting leadership can actually use.
A 15-minute call. We'll tell you what we'd actually do — or who else to call.
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