About Pendragon
Cybersecurity Solutions for Today’s Digital World
“Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”
–Theodore Roosevelt
Pendragon Security vCISO services are far from anything you have seen advertised or used. Our vCISO services incorporate cyber, physical, personal, and austere environment subject matter expertise to help close the gap across all your threat vectors. We help you think like the bad actors and show you how to protect yourself, your family, your home, your business, critical infrastructure, and your cyber presence at home and abroad.
Pendragon services help individuals, owners, boards, executives, managers, technologists, and security strategists safeguard assets while supporting your life and business operations with augmented cyber and physical security SMEs to reduce personal and business risk, signaling a commitment to bad actors, family members, partners, and friends to a deeper security maturity and enhanced overall security posture. The best offense is a good offense.
Virtual CISO Services
Why Hire a Virtual Chief Information Security Officer (vCISO)?
Irrespective of regulatory scrutiny in your personal life, industry or organization, too much is at stake to not have someone with your overall safety as their number one priority. A security leader has the specialized technical knowledge, tactical presence, operational chops, and real-world experience to help build a robust cyber and physical security foundation and the agility to see, understand and communicate evolving threats while enhancing the “security IQ” of our clients.
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Cybersecurity breaches are caused by human error
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Of all cyber attacks target SMEs
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Pendragon vCISO Services
Empowering Personal and Business Security
Pendragon Cybersecurity offers both Physical CISO services, providing on-site expertise and guidance to fortify your organization’s physical security measures, and Virtual CISO services, delivering remote cybersecurity leadership and strategic guidance to protect your digital assets in the ever-evolving threat landscape.
Business and critical infrastructure pentesting
Physical (you, family, friends) pentesting
Home and property pentesting
Situational awareness consulting to identify and mitigate threats to body and property at home and abroad
Protective surveillance and location mapping
Online identity management
Encrypted communications
Web and digital anonymity
Secure retreats consulting
Offgrid consulting
Geopolitical, financial, and lifestyle heat mapping (mapping your personal your threats)
Disaster preparations and recovery consulting
Survivability and sustainability
Surviving and thriving
Ruggedized business risk – Hard to kill and quick to recover!
Cybersecurity best practices
Cybersecurity frameworks
Governance, policy, and compliance consulting
Revenue-driven security opex and capex budgeting
Leadership strategies & organizational communications
Executive planning & execution coaching
Cyber disaster management
Corrective action process development, planning, execution, and scoring
Pentesting guidance
Security event and IR tabletops and wargaming
Incident response consulting
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Why Choose Pendragon?
Cybersecurity Services that Adapt to Your Evolving Business
Our vCISO can strengthen your existing staff, set strategic objectives to support business-critical technology demands, balance IT administration, and establish clear communication with the board of directors, investors, and government agencies.
Alignment and Expertise
Our expert has served in a wide range of industries for organizations of various sizes and will know how to align cybersecurity strategies with your company’s critical business assets, unique needs, and operational challenges.
Flexible Engagement Options
Whether looking for an interim CISO, a resource to support your current leadership or a longer-term arrangement, Pendragon Security Virtual CISO Advisory Services provides the leadership you needed yesterday.
Open Visibility VS Confidential Operational Intelligence
We offer two very different flavors of our vCISO services. We can become a very open, visible, and marketable part of your organization, leveraged as an openly advertised asset that provides reputation returns well past the security leadership supplied through our partnership.
Our services are also available under strict NDAs as a private and uncompromising source of operational intelligence and business guidance under the most stringent possible confidence. We have particular out-of-channel communications scenarios established for specialized needs, projects, and roles to ensure complete anonymity.
How It Works
Expertise in Building and Improving Cybersecurity Programs
“The vCISO becomes a security SME tuned to the organization’s specific operations and business needs.”
Assessment and Communication
We gather information and conduct a thorough assessment of the organization to understand its security posture, strengths, weaknesses, and overall risk profile
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Goal Alignment and Strategic Planning
We collaborate with executive leadership teams to align cybersecurity goals with the organization’s broader objectives, available resources, and budget. Create a strategic roadmap.
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Implementation and Improvement
Once we have established a a go forward strategy, we work with leadership, inhouse resources, and third party vendors to begin implementation. Security maturity for any organization is a living breathing ecosystem that must be closely monitored and adjusted to ensure a successful outcome. We are there 247 365 to ensure that success.
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Continual Engagement and Optimization
The most critical aspect of long-term security maturity enhancement is staying engaged at all levels with the client. Security threats and bad actors or agile and nimble in the methods they use to disrupt business operations. Pendragon Security stays in the trenches with our clients constantly gaining threat intelligence, training, and following the needs of your business so that we can command the cyber threat battlespace and stay on pace with bad actors activities.
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The CISO’s First One Hundred Days
Establishing a collaborative and informed partnership with your Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) during the initial stages is paramount. The success of your organization’s security program hinges on a strategic and cohesive approach, making it essential to know what to expect and how to engage effectively with your CISO. This early collaboration not only ensures a thorough understanding of your unique business landscape, including key stakeholders and critical assets but also sets the foundation for a proactive and resilient cybersecurity strategy.
Explore our Chief Information Security Officer’s detailed 100-day plan to fortify your organization’s defenses – click below for a comprehensive roadmap.
Secure Your Business Today
Finding an experienced, well-qualified CISO in today’s competitive information security job market can be challenging, time-consuming, and expensive. If you need a CISO now, this is the perfect time to consider Pendragon Security Virtual CISO Advisory Services.
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