CISOaaS
CISO as a Service, explained and priced
CISO as a Service (CISOaaS) gives your business an accountable Chief Information Security Officer on a monthly subscription: strategy, board reporting, compliance leadership and incident readiness, delivered by a named UK expert with a full security team behind them.
The subscription
Security leadership as a service
Hiring a CISO means recruitment, salary, benefits and a single point of failure. Consuming one as a service means starting within days and paying a predictable monthly fee.
A named CISO, on subscription
Not a helpdesk or a rotating bench: a named senior leader who owns your security strategy month after month, with the authority and experience to represent it to your board, customers and auditors.
A steady monthly rhythm
Security committee chairing, board reporting, roadmap progress and supplier questions handled on a predictable cadence, so security leadership becomes a service your business consumes rather than a role you have to staff.
On-demand expertise between sessions
A critical vulnerability, a customer security questionnaire, an insurer's questions: your CISO answers when things come up, not just on scheduled days. CISO on demand is the point of the subscription model.
A whole team behind the subscription
Penetration testers, security architects and incident responders from the wider CyPro team, pulled in when your roadmap needs them. One subscription, a full security function.
The full service specification, from maturity assessment to training programmes, is on what's included.
Published pricing
What CISOaaS costs
Our CISO as a Service engagements run at £2,500 to £5,000 per month, scoped to your size, complexity and coverage. No recruitment fees, no notice-period risk, no hidden extras: the subscription is the whole cost.
See the three pricing tiersThe labels, honestly
CISO as a Service, Virtual CISO, Fractional CISO: providers use these labels interchangeably, and mostly they describe the same thing. The genuine difference is the engagement shape. CISOaaS framing suits businesses that want leadership as a predictable monthly service with on-demand access. A fractional CISO engagement embeds the same leader for set days each month. Both are delivered by the same named CyPro practitioners either way, so choose the shape, not the label.
Quick answers
CISO as a Service FAQs
What is CISO as a Service?
CISO as a Service (also written CISOaaS) gives your business an accountable Chief Information Security Officer on a monthly subscription: security strategy, board reporting, compliance leadership and incident readiness, delivered by a named senior practitioner rather than a full-time hire.
How much does CISO as a Service cost in the UK?
Typically £2,500 to £5,000 per month depending on your organisation's size, complexity and the coverage you want. That compares with around £255,000 a year for the true cost of employing a full-time CISO.
Is CISO as a Service the same as a Virtual CISO?
In substance, yes. CISO as a Service emphasises the subscription: leadership consumed as a monthly service. Virtual CISO emphasises the person. Both describe a senior security leader working for you part time, and we deliver the model under either name.
More questions answered on the full FAQ page.
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A free 30 minute discovery call scopes your CISOaaS subscription and gives you a firm monthly price. UK-wide, remote-first, on site when it matters.