CISO as a Service · security leadership

Security maturity
that
levels up
every cycle.

An annual master plan, a seat on the committee, evidence organized for the next audit. Zulti's on-demand CISO plans, leads and reviews your security posture at the right pace for a company without a dedicated C-level seat.

PSA · Governance & Compliance · Risks
Risk register in PSA: likelihood × impact heat map, treatment progress and most serious risks
model
monthly fee + projects
client
no in-house CISO
committee
executive presence
The starting point

In security, a company doesn't get to choose when to decide. Improvising becomes an expensive bill.

Clients ask, auditors push, regulators demand. Without a permanent CISO, every request becomes a fire drill under pressure. The on-demand seat gets there first: a monthly fee, no full-time hire.

4 areas · one seat

One seat that keeps leveling up.

Information security and privacy integrated into the ISMS, under a single owner who translates technical risk into board decisions.

— Area 01

Risk opinions

Vendor risk assessment, SIEM/SOC/EDR. You bring the decision; Zulti returns a written analysis under the monthly fee, not vendor commission.

written opinion · on demand · fee separate from any sale
ISMSpolicy ACLaccess OPSoperations IRCincident VENvendor LGPDprivacy
— Area 02

Security Master Plan

The core deliverable. An annual document with an assessment, a risk map and initiatives prioritized for the short, medium and long term. Validated by the security committee.

annual deliverable · validated by committee
ISMSpolicy ACLaccess OPSoperations IRCincident VENvendor LGPDprivacy
— Area 03

Leading the compliance program

The CISO defines which standards apply (ISO 27001 / 27002 / 27701 / 42001 + LGPD), prioritizes the gaps and leads the remediation. The formal build-out (controls, evidence, audit readiness) runs as the Security & Complianceprogram. Certification is done by an independent body.

leads the compliance work · build-out is the S&C program
ISMSpolicy ACLaccess OPSoperations IRCincident VENvendor LGPDprivacy
— Area 04

Committee seat

A permanent seat on the risk and security committee. Brings to the CEO's table what's in the plan, open risks and decisions that need to be made. Holding steady between audits.

agreed frequency · an executive, not a vendor
ISMSpolicy ACLaccess OPSoperations IRCincident VENvendor LGPDprivacy
— Working alongside your in-house team
The on-demand CISO is not the "boss" of your IT team. When there's in-house IT (analyst, coordinator, manager), the role is direction: it defines the "what" and the "why". The in-house team handles the "how". The line is clear and agreed from day one, with no competition and no overlap.
separate roles · agreed at onboarding
today × Zulti CISO

Who decides on security today. And who would decide with Zulti.

A binary heat map of the 6 areas the ISMS covers. Where today the topic is left to technical improvisation versus where on-demand leadership brings written criteria.

— ISMS area
today No CISO senior IT takes it on informally
with Zulti On-demand CISO recurring seat · monthly fee
ISMS · policy Formal written policy, approved and in force
today
technical improvisation
with Zulti
document in force
ACL · access MFA, RBAC and periodic permission reviews
today
partial · no review
with Zulti
quarterly · auditable
OPS · operations Backup, logs and patches in agreed windows
today
no testing · no retention
with Zulti
validated quarterly test
IRC · incident Response plan + annual tabletop
today
no plan · real panic
with Zulti
runbook + annual tabletop
VEN · vendor Vendor risk assessment + DPA + review
today
informal checklist
with Zulti
written opinion · PSA
LGPD · privacy ROPA, legal basis, appointed DPO
today
website text · no ROPA
with Zulti
program running
Continuous security governance, without an in-house CISO. At a fraction of the cost.
Book a call →
Frequently asked questions

When there's no CISO at the table, every CEO asks the same things.

Who answers for security, what gets delivered, and how it works with everyone else.

What's the commercial model: retainer, project or hourly?+
Hybrid. At its core is a recurring monthly fee (what consultancies call a retainer) covering continuous security leadership, meetings at the agreed frequency, availability for one-off decisions between meetings, and the annual Security Master Plan. Large initiatives that need in-depth work (ISO 27001 adoption, an LGPD compliance program, post-incident work, due diligence on a critical vendor) become fixed-scope projects, priced upfront.
Zulti resells security tools. How does that not compromise the CISO's impartiality?+
They're two separate contracts. The on-demand CISO is a monthly fee paid directly, with no vendor commission. Technical operations (MSP/Cybersecurity) are a different contract, and that's where we resell firewall, EDR and web filtering as part of the scope. The CISO recommends what makes sense: if the right tool is in our portfolio, we integrate it; if not, we point you to an outside one, because the CISO's pay doesn't depend on the sale. The split is declared at onboarding, with no gray area.
Do I need Zulti's MSP or Cybersecurity service to get the on-demand CISO?+
No. The on-demand CISO is standalone: it works with any company, with or without an MSP, with or without an in-house security team. When the client is also a Zulti operations client (MSP or Cybersecurity), the monthly fee is lower (part of the environment insight already comes from operations) and the roles stay separate in the scope: operations is operations, leadership is leadership. But starting doesn't require any other contract.
How often do we meet? How many hours per month?+
Agreed case by case. We don't use a fixed "X hours for Y" table, because real demand varies a lot between clients. A company adopting ISO 27001 or in the middle of an LGPD program needs weekly meetings; a mature environment, monthly. Post-incident work needs intensive presence in the first weeks, then slows down. The monthly fee is sized to the demand pattern and reviewed when it changes. No charge for every email answered.
How is this different from a large consultancy or a compliance audit?+
It's a different role. A security consultancy delivers an assessment, gap analysis and recommendations, then leaves. An audit issues its opinion and leaves. The on-demand CISO takes the seat: they're responsible for security leadership between recurring meetings, defend decisions to the board, follow the plan's execution and update the posture when things change (a new regulation, a new incident in the industry, a new vendor). It's an executive role, not an advisory one. That's why billing is recurring monthly, not a one-off project. And that's why the relationship lasts years, not months.
Who it's NOT for

Shared security leadership has limits, and we'll tell you when.

Commercial honesty has kept us going for almost a decade. In some scenarios, another model is a better fit. We list them openly to save you evaluation time.

✕
Your company has technology as its main product (software house, fintech, digital product scale-up). Zulti competes in security leadership for companies whose business happens outside software. A CEO running a software house needs a full-time in-house CISO, inside the product.
✕
Your technical team is already past 10–15 people and the main need is people management (careers, performance, headcount, culture). Zulti competes in security leadership for companies where operations still need more strategic counterweight than people leadership. That stage calls for an in-house CISO.
✕
You buy IT based on a fixed vendor recommendation or a channel program. Zulti has technical operations (MSP, Cybersecurity) with a defined portfolio and leadership (CISO) paid separately from sales, but if your security decisions are driven by an external channel, this two-sided model makes no difference in practice.
More from Zulti

Services designed to cover every aspect of your IT.

Next step

Security leadership doesn't need to be full-time. Tell us your case.

A direct 15-minute conversation. No off-the-shelf package, no forty-page proposal. The person you talk to makes the decisions.

or if you prefer
or tell us briefly