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For B2B SaaS, fintech & healthtech startups · seed–Series B

Fractional CTO & CISO
for tech startups

Board-level security and compliance leadership — pass SOC 2, clear security reviews, and survive diligence, without a full-time hire.

Turn security from the thing that stalls your enterprise deals and your raise into the thing that closes them — built beside your engineers, not over them.

SOC 2-readyEnterprise dealsInvestor diligenceWorks with your engineers
ABISOL.comMohammad Elmallah · Founder & Principal Consultant · Fractional CTO & CISO
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Before the pitch — one question

Your product is ready to sell — until the security questionnaire arrives.

Enterprise procurement and your next investor ask the same thing: prove your security. Right now no one owns that answer. In the next few minutes: what that gap costs you in deals and dilution — and how fast it closes.

1What a stalled security review costs 2What SOC 2 actually unlocks 3The 90-day fix — without a $250K hire
ABISOL.comWhy this matters now
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Enterprise-grade expectations. A ten-person team.

What buyers & investors expect

The bar enterprise procurement sets.

  • SOC 2 Type II (or a credible program)
  • A passed security questionnaire
  • Documented access, encryption & backups
  • An incident-response plan

What you can staff

Everyone is already at capacity.

  • Founders wearing every hat
  • Engineers heads-down on product
  • Security as “we’ll get to it”
  • No one who owns compliance
A full-time CISO runs $250K+ — impossible before Series B. Your engineers can build securely; what’s missing is someone to own SOC 2, the questionnaires, and diligence beside them — so security stops landing on the team at the worst possible time.
ABISOL.comThe startup security paradox
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The exposure is real. The resources are not.

65%
of companies say customers, investors & suppliers now require proof of compliance — Vanta, 2025
46%
of breaches hit companies with fewer than 1,000 employees — Verizon DBIR
$6.98M
average Canadian breach cost, CAD — IBM, 2025
80%
of a buyer’s security questionnaire a SOC 2 report answers up front — industry
SOC 2 is not a legal rule — it’s a commercial one. Enterprise procurement blocks vendors without it, and investors now ask in diligence. The cost of not having it is measured in stalled deals and a harder raise.
ABISOL.comSources: Vanta (2025); Verizon DBIR; IBM (2025)
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Who you’re trusting with it

Every engagement led personally — never handed off.

Mohammad Elmallah
Founder & Principal Consultant · Fractional CTO & CISO
MBACISSPCISMPMPCSMITILAzure

25+ years across hands-on architecture and C-suite leadership — cloud, software delivery, and security programs aligned to OSFI B-13, ISO 27001, and NIST CSF 2.0 — spanning healthcare, insurance, finance, the public sector, and nonprofits. At ABISOL, that senior expertise is who you work with from day one.

25+years leading IT & security
50+organizations served
$5M+budgets delivered on time
7certifications & designations

Certified across the lifecycle

MBA, CISSP, CISM, PMP, CSM, ITIL & Azure — security, delivery, and leadership in one advisor.

Led personally, start to finish

No junior consultants, no subcontracting, no hand-off after the discovery call.

Platform-first, no lock-in

Maximizes the Microsoft 365, Power Platform & Azure you already own — pilot in 30 days, prove ROI, then scale.

Enterprise-grade

SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST CSF 2.0 & OSFI B-13 experience, brought to a startup’s budget.

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Depth behind the fractional model

Credentials that map to every control a buyer or investor asks about.

Board-ready cyber governance, incident-response plans & vCISO oversight.
Fractional CISO
Automation built on the Microsoft 365, Power Platform & Azure you already own.
AI & workflow automation
Cloud, microservices & hybrid designs sized to your organization — no over-build.
Enterprise architecture
PIPEDA, SOC 2, ISO 27001 & NIST CSF 2.0 turned into audit-ready programs.
Compliance architecture
PMP-certified delivery, vendor negotiation, risk & stakeholder governance.
IT project leadership
Classification, retention, DSAR & ROPA workflows, and privacy impact assessments.
Data governance & privacy

Certifications & frameworks

CISSPCISMMBAPMPCSMITIL v4AzureNIST CSF 2.0ISO 27001:2022SOC 2 Type IIOSFI B-13PIPEDAHIPAAPCI-DSS v4.0CIS v8.1COBIT 2019
ABISOL.comPrincipal consultant · credentials
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The good news

SOC 2 doesn’t have to be a six-month engineering detour.

Compliance-automation platforms — Vanta, Drata, Secureframe — collect most of the evidence automatically. For most startups the gaps are documentation and ownership, not technology. That’s exactly what ABISOL runs.

Vanta / Drata automate evidenceMFA & SSO you can turn on nowCloud config hardeningNo product-roadmap detour
We drive the tools you already own to a clean report — so most startups add little new spend and don’t pull engineers off the roadmap.
ABISOL.comAudit-ready, faster
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We own security & compliance — you focus on shipping.

CTO

  • Integrate cloud, identity, SaaS & CI/CD
  • Harden AWS/GCP; least-privilege by default
  • Cut wasted SaaS & cloud spend
  • Practical AI rules for your engineers

CISO

  • SOC 2 / ISO program & breach playbooks
  • MFA, SSO & least-privilege (RBAC)
  • Secrets management & secure SDLC
  • Vendor & sub-processor risk
Product & engineering
YOU
Customers & growth
YOU
Fundraising
YOU
Tech & security
ABISOL
Here is exactly what “the tech & security piece” means — in plain terms, across the five areas on the next slides.
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Proof, not promises

Every engagement leaves you with artifacts you can file.

The value isn’t the retainer — it’s the documents your customers, investors, and auditors can hold in their hands. Your IT team owns and presents them — the wins land as theirs. Yours to keep, whether or not you continue.

For your customers & investors

  • Cyber risk register — ranked and board-ready
  • Policy pack: security, access & AI
  • SOC 2 evidence & readiness file
  • A one-page security dashboard for diligence

For your day-to-day operations

  • 12-month security roadmap
  • SOC 2 remediation plan — gaps actually closed
  • Incident-response playbook, ready to run
  • Vendor & sub-processor scorecard
A board can approve proof far more easily than a promise — so you leave the first engagement with something to show for it.
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Straight answers

What your engineers are quietly wondering — answered up front.

“Are you here to grade our engineers’ code?”

No. We own the security-and-compliance layer around your team so they ship faster, not slower. No code shaming — we hand them guardrails, not homework.

“Will this slow down our releases?”

The opposite. We build security into your existing workflow — SSO, CI checks, automated evidence — so shipping speeds up and questionnaires stop pulling engineers off the roadmap.

“Do our engineers lose control?”

No. They keep the keys and the architecture decisions. We advise, enable, and take the SOC 2 evidence grind off their plate.

“What does our eng lead get?”

SOC 2 and diligence handled without a hire, senior security expertise on tap, and their engineers back on product instead of security paperwork.

Still unsure it fits the budget? The free assessment quantifies your specific gaps and the deals at risk first — so you decide with numbers, not a leap of faith.
ABISOL.comTurning your engineers into champions
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Free · no commitment · nothing to lose

Start with a free Tech & Cyber Health Assessment

What it costs you

  • $0 — completely complimentary
  • No retainer, no commitment, no lock-in
  • 45–60 minutes with your founders, eng lead & team
  • A board-ready one-pager you keep

What waiting costs you

  • A security review that stalls your biggest deal
  • A diligence finding that reprices your round
  • Weeks of engineering time lost to questionnaires
  • A breach you didn’t see coming
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