The Security Executive Your Business Needs. Without the Full-Time Hire.

Trava's vCISOs work across technology, financial services, healthcare, and regulated industries, and are experienced across major frameworks including SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, CMMC, FedRAMP, and NIST. If your industry or framework requirement isn't listed, contact us — we can speak to it directly.

Yes. Board and customer representation is one of the core functions Trava's vCISOs perform — preparing for and presenting at board meetings, responding to customer security reviews and questionnaires, and serving as the security voice in external audit conversations, so security has a senior, credible presence in every high-stakes interaction.

A full-time CISO is the right answer when an organization needs a senior security executive working exclusively on their program at a sustained, high level of effort. For most mid-market companies that level of capacity isn't yet required — and a full-time search takes months and carries a significant salary commitment. A vCISO provides the same quality of executive judgment at the engagement level the organization actually requires today, with the ability to scale as needs grow.

The Retainer is an ongoing engagement — a dedicated block of executive time each month — for organizations that need security leadership as a continuous function. The Hourly engagement is scoped to a specific need: a tooling decision, a risk assessment, an incident, or a one-time review. Both provide access to the same caliber of security executive; the difference is continuity and accumulated context.

The most common triggers are: a customer or regulator requiring named security leadership, an audit or funding round requiring executive-level security representation, a board that has started asking security questions no one is equipped to answer, or a CTO or founder realizing they are functionally running the security program in addition to their actual job. A vCISO resolves all of these without the cost and timeline of a full-time hire.

A security consultant typically delivers a scoped project or report and then exits. A vCISO is embedded in the organization as an ongoing security leader — accountable for the direction of the security program over time, not just the output of a single engagement. Even in a scoped hourly engagement, the relationship is oriented toward decisions and outcomes rather than deliverables alone.

A virtual CISO (vCISO) is an experienced security executive engaged on a part-time or fractional basis rather than as a full-time employee. They perform the same strategic functions as an in-house CISO — setting security strategy, managing risk, guiding compliance obligations, and representing security to the board and customers — at a cost and commitment level scaled to what the organization actually needs.