Cybersecurity Consulting | vCISO | Fractional CISO

Strategic cybersecurity consulting requires a business-centric approach towards understanding cybersecurity risk as well as a practical and efficient handle on solutions.

Allan Alford has created and managed comprehensive cybersecurity programs for companies with as few as five and as many as 50,000 employees across a wide array of industries.  With 20+ years leading information security programs, Allan Alford Consulting can help you to:

• Build out, manage, and effectively report on a complete cybersecurity program, including budgeting and forecasting, maturity and compliance with industry-recognized frameworks.
• Increase resilience, readying your organization to face and survive threats such as ransomware.
• Implement a strong governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) program while establishing the right technical solutions to actualize your information security goals.
• Analyze your organization, determining your most valuable assets, your highest risks, and implement an effective program to manage them, while also building the resiliency to rapidly respond to and recover from any cybersecurity incident.

Areas of specific focus include but are not limited to:

• Comprehensive cybersecurity program creation and management
• Sharing cybersecurity governance strategies with boards of directors
• CISO coaching and mentoring - new CISOs and aspiring CISOs
• M&A assessments
• Portfolio company assessments
• Full-featured cybersecurity program development as needed