

and leadership on your team

consultant and strategic leader
and third-party risk management


weaknesses, and gaps across the business



We are acting as your CISO, as a part of your executive team.
We treat risk and privacy both ethically and appropriately.
We strive to make decisions that are best for your company.


Support business change, remote work, and
digital transformation.
Implement usable security.
Be agile and implement fast feedback loops.
Shift left and automate where possible.


Executive playbooks
Layered defense-in-depth solutions
Cyber resiliency engineering to bounce back quickly
SOC and MSSP coordination and optimization
Incident response planning and tabletop exercises
Specializing in vCISO Services
vCISO is what we do. We are enabled with the right people, processes, and technology to serve you well, regardless of your company size.
Focused
Our vCISOs are dedicated to your business. We are a part of your team, focused on driving success for you. To us, success is reducing risk, improving threat response, and increasing resilience. You have our complete attention, and are devoted to enabling your growth through usable information security.
Strategic
We identify your business needs and risks and create a strategic information security plan that is custom to your situation. Aligning information security to your organizational strategy, vision, mission, and goals is a crucial part of security leadership.
Collaborative
Our vCISOs build strong ties across the business and across departmental boundaries in order to foster progress and cooperation in order to better secure the organization. We are committed to building those relationships and earning trust across the company.
Experienced
Each of our vCISOs has at least 10 years of experience in cybersecurity leadership as well as business leadership, allowing us to bridge the gap between the IT and information security organization and the business. Our experts come from cybersecurity firms, managed service providers, and corporate executive teams.
Certified
Our team has cybersecurity certifications ranging from ISACA Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) through CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+). We also hold many other certifications through Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Cisco, AWS, Okta, Veeam, and CompTIA.
NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF)
Tensile Advisors may map ISO 27001, HIPAA HITRUST, CMMC, PCI DSS, NERC, or other control sets, as required by your contractual and regulatory obligations. Our vCISOs always lead with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (NIST CSF) as our core framework.
Identify
Assessing your business risk depends on identifying your assets and assessing their vulnerabilities and current controls. We are in a constant mode of identification and discovery.
Protect
After assessing your current assets and cyber posture, Tensile Advisors guides your company in implementing controls and protections appropriate to your unique situation.

Detect
Implementing continuous monitoring systems, intrusion detection systems, outsourcing to an MSSP for managed detection and response (MDR), and even building a security operations center (SOC) to improve detection are all tactics that our vCISOs deploy. Attack surface monitoring and dark web monitoring are approaches we use to enhance threat detection as well.
Respond
Analyzing, containing, and eradicating any attack is critical to your business. Tensile Advisors vCISOs create an incident response plan, and may create (or recommend outsourcing) incident response team functions. This plan is something that needs constant attention, as this needs to address new attacks and your changing business.
Recover
Resilience and ability to bounce back is core to your business continuity. Resilience engineering and planning for disaster and cyber event recovery are led by our vCISOs. Tensile Advisors leverages the MITRE Cyber Resiliency Framework, also known as NIST 800-160 vol 2, for resiliency strategy and planning.