Executive Technology Leadership
- Fractional CIO
- Fractional CTO
- IT strategy
- Technology roadmap
OutcomeMake better technology decisions without hiring a full-time executive.
Explore Fractional CIO / CTO Services
Senior technology & cybersecurity leadership
Fractional CIO, CTO & CISO for Canadian organizations, without the full-time executive cost.
ABISOL gives you an experienced technology and security executive, cybersecurity governance, a plan for digital and AI transformation, and hands-on delivery. You get senior expertise without the cost or commitment of a full-time executive team.
Take a Free Assessment
Complimentary 30-minute first conversation. No obligation.
- Works alongside your IT team & MSP
Sound familiar?
Your organization is too complex for basic IT support, but a full-time CIO or CISO is hard to justify.
Pick the situation closest to yours and see roughly what the first 90 days with ABISOL could look like.
What's on your desk?
A rough first 90 days (estimate)
- Weeks 1–2Posture assessment and interviews with leadership
- Month 1A ranked risk register and a one-page Board dashboard
- Month 3Approved policies, a 12-month roadmap and your first Board report
Timings are rough estimates. We confirm scope, timing and fees with you after the assessment.
You walk away withA Board that can see cyber risk, and the plan to reduce it.
A rough first 90 days (estimate)
- Weeks 1–2Map the insurer's questions to the controls you really have
- Month 1Close the gaps that matter most: MFA, backups, email security
- Month 3An evidence file behind every "yes" on the application
Timings are rough estimates. We confirm scope, timing and fees with you after the assessment.
You walk away withAnswers you can stand behind at renewal, and at claim time.
A rough first 90 days (estimate)
- Weeks 1–2AI readiness assessment and a shortlist of use cases
- Month 1An acceptable-use policy and data guardrails
- Month 3A first use case in production, with the value measured
Timings are rough estimates. We confirm scope, timing and fees with you after the assessment.
You walk away withAI that saves real time, on the tools you already own.
A rough first 90 days (estimate)
- Weeks 1–2Requirements, options and a clear decision timeline
- Month 1An RFP and a vendor scorecard
- Month 3A documented recommendation and better contract terms
Timings are rough estimates. We confirm scope, timing and fees with you after the assessment.
You walk away withA defensible decision, documented for your Board.
A rough first 90 days (estimate)
- Weeks 1–2Listen, assess and review your MSP and vendors
- Month 1Priorities, budget and quick wins agreed
- Month 3An approved 12-month roadmap and a steering rhythm that runs
Timings are rough estimates. We confirm scope, timing and fees with you after the assessment.
You walk away withExecutive technology leadership, without a full-time hire.
What ABISOL does
From understanding your position to running it well
We don't stop at recommendations. Pick your industry to see what changes, then how we get there.
What changes when ABISOL joins
Today
- Controls exist, but nobody wrote them down
- The MSP runs operations, not strategy
- Cyber is treated as a technical issue
With ABISOL
- A written cyber policies and procedures manual
- A one-page cyber dashboard for the Principal Broker
- An evidence file for your cyber insurer and regulator
Senior-led, alongside your team and MSPSee the full plan for brokerages
Today
- The Board gets too little reporting
- The IT team has no executive capacity
- Projects stall between business and IT
With ABISOL
- A ranked, Board-ready cyber risk register
- A governance evidence file mapped to OSFI B-13
- A 12-month technology and cyber roadmap
Senior-led, alongside your team and MSPSee the full plan for mutual insurers
Today
- IT is someone's side job
- The Board gets little reporting
- Non-profit programs and discounts go unused
With ABISOL
- A cyber and privacy risk register, ranked for the Board
- A privacy evidence file for funders and auditors
- A licensing and non-profit programs plan
Senior-led, alongside your team and MSPSee the full plan for non-profits
Today
- The privacy role is part-time and unsupported
- Vendors integrate without oversight
- Cyber is treated as an IT issue
With ABISOL
- Privacy impact assessments for key systems
- A breach response playbook with notification steps
- Downtime procedures and a disaster recovery plan
Senior-led, alongside your team and MSPSee the full plan for healthcare organizations
Today
- Ed-tech is adopted one classroom at a time
- Vendor contracts lack the right terms
- Trustees get little reporting
With ABISOL
- An ed-tech inventory with an approval process
- A vendor contract privacy and security checklist
- A one-page dashboard for leadership and trustees
Senior-led, alongside your team and MSPSee the full plan for schools
Today
- Questionnaires get answered ad hoc
- Policies are missing or out of date
- Leadership gets little reporting
With ABISOL
- A questionnaire answer library and a trust overview
- A current policy pack, including AI
- A one-page leadership cyber dashboard
Senior-led, alongside your team and MSPSee the full plan for regulated SMEs
Today
- Founders own security by default
- Questionnaires get answered ad hoc
- Architecture debt builds quietly
With ABISOL
- A security roadmap tied to sales and funding milestones
- A policy set ready for SOC 2 or ISO 27001
- An investor-ready technology and security overview
Senior-led, alongside your team and MSPSee the full plan for startups
How we get there. Six stages, each ending with something your organization keeps. ABISOL can join at any stage, or lead the whole journey.
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Assess
Find out where you stand: cyber posture, IT maturity, AI readiness, vendors and processes.
You get
- Cybersecurity posture report with a remediation roadmap
- IT maturity and cloud readiness findings
- AI readiness view and a shortlist of use cases
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Advise
Decide what to do, with fractional executive leadership, strategy and a prioritized roadmap.
You get
- Board-ready technology roadmap and investment plan
- 12-month security roadmap
- Written recommendations on key decisions
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Transform
Modernize systems, processes and data. Adopt AI where it creates measurable value.
You get
- Transformation roadmap and adopted improvements
- AI strategy and acceptable-use policy
- Cloud migration plan and a secure cloud foundation
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Deliver
Lead the projects, RFPs and vendor decisions that have to land.
You get
- Projects delivered with transparent reporting
- Completed RFP, vendor scorecard and recommendation
- Better contract terms and a renewal calendar
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Govern
Ongoing oversight, risk management and Board-level reporting.
You get
- Living cyber risk register and Board report
- Incident response plan and a completed tabletop exercise
- Continuity and disaster recovery plans, tested
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Enable
Policies, documentation, awareness and knowledge transfer that stay with your team.
You get
- Approved policy and procedure set
- Documented process library your team maintains
- Awareness sessions and training materials
Services
Five ways ABISOL supports your leadership team
Bring us in for one area, or for all of them under a single fractional executive. See all services.
Cybersecurity & Risk
- Fractional CISO
- Posture assessment
- Risk register
- Board reporting
- Incident response
OutcomeUnderstand, prioritize and reduce cyber risk.
Explore Fractional CISO ServicesDigital & AI Transformation
- AI readiness & strategy
- Automation
- Cloud
- Modernization
OutcomeTurn technology investment into measurable business value.
Explore digital & AI transformationTechnology Delivery
- IT, cyber & AI projects
- Project recovery
- RFPs
- Vendor selection
OutcomeGet critical technology initiatives delivered.
Explore delivery servicesGovernance & Resilience
- IT governance
- Policies & procedures
- Business continuity
- Disaster recovery
OutcomeBuild controlled, repeatable and sustainable technology operations.
Explore governance services
Why ABISOL
An executive partner for your organization, and an advocate for your IT team
Decades of technology leadership
Experience across software, infrastructure, cloud, DevOps, security and project delivery. Not a junior team selling frameworks.
Built for regulated environments
Insurance, financial services, healthcare, non-profits and the public sector, where privacy, auditability and continuity matter.
Strategy and execution
We assess, plan, lead and implement. Then we put the governance in place so the results last.
We speak business and technology
Technical findings are turned into risk, business impact, priority, investment and accountability.
Vendor-independent
ABISOL doesn't resell software, hardware or services. Recommendations are based only on what's right for you.
Your leadershipCEO · Board · Executive Director · CFO
↑ clear reporting & decisions ↓
ABISOL · fractional executiveStrategy, risk, governance & delivery leadership
Works above the ticket queue: direction, oversight and advocacy.
↑ guidance & support ↓
Your operationsWorks alongside, never replaces:
Internal IT teamMSPSoftware vendorsExisting consultants
Industries
Technology leadership for organizations with a lot at stake
Each sector has its own regulators, risks and constraints. Choose yours to see how ABISOL helps.
Mutual Insurers
Examination-ready governance, without a full-time CISO
- OSFI B-13 technology & cyber expectations
- Board-level risk reporting
- Core-system & vendor oversight
Insurance Brokerages
Protect client data, carrier appointments and E&O standing
- RIBO cyber questions
- Carrier & cyber-insurer controls
- Wire-fraud & phishing defence
Non-Profits & Charities
Safeguard donor trust and keep your mission running
- PIPEDA & Quebec Law 25 privacy
- Lean IT, no senior oversight
- Practical, affordable controls
Regulated SMEs
Senior oversight sized for growing, regulated businesses
- Client & regulator due diligence
- Cyber-insurance requirements
- IT that has outgrown its owner
Healthcare
Protect patient data and keep clinical operations running
- Health-privacy laws such as Ontario's PHIPA
- Clinical system uptime & continuity
- Ageing systems & cloud modernization
Education
Modernize learning and administration, safely
- Student & staff privacy obligations
- Lean IT teams running many systems
- Cloud, AI & digital-learning decisions
Selling into enterprise customers? See our security and technology leadership for startups.
Proof
What the work looks like
Client names are withheld for confidentiality. Each example shows the problem, what ABISOL did, and the result.
Regional insurer
Claims intake that no longer depends on manual sorting
- Problem
- Staff spent over 1,000 hours a month manually routing claims that arrived by email.
- ABISOL action
- Designed and delivered an AI classification and routing flow on the insurer's existing Microsoft 365 licensing.
- Result
- 40% reduction in manual claims routing, with no new platform purchase.
Healthcare clinic
Bringing sprawling patient data under governance
- Problem
- Sensitive data was spread across systems, creating privacy and compliance exposure.
- ABISOL action
- Ran a data assessment and designed a health-privacy-aligned data governance architecture.
- Result
- Governance architecture moved from pilot to production in 30 days.
Professional-services SME
Avoiding an unnecessary software purchase
- Problem
- Leadership was about to buy a costly document-processing product.
- ABISOL action
- Evaluated the requirement and delivered the same workflow using the organization's existing Azure agreement.
- Result
- The requirement was met with no new software licensing.
See what you get
Every engagement produces practical, executive-ready deliverables. Samples are available on request.
Cyber risk register & dashboard
Risks ranked by business impact, each with an owner.
Technology roadmap
Sequenced initiatives with costs and dependencies.
Board technology report
Plain-language status, risks and decisions for directors.
Vendor scorecard & RFP
Defensible, documented vendor decisions.
Free assessments
Know where you stand before you decide what to do next
A low-risk place to start. Each assessment gives executive-friendly results with prioritized findings and recommended next steps. Compare all assessments.
Cyber Essentials Assessment
- For
- Leaders of small organizations (written for teams of fewer than 10 people) who want a first read of their cyber exposure.
- Examines
- Accounts, devices, email, cloud, data and backups. Mapped to the Canadian Cyber Centre's Readiness Goals, CIS Controls, NIST CSF 2.0 and SOC 2.
- You receive
- Results by area, then a prioritized fix plan reviewed with ABISOL.
AI Readiness Assessment
- For
- Executives weighing where AI and automation could realistically help.
- Examines
- Direction, use cases, data, tools, safe use and privacy, people and automation. Mapped to the NIST AI Risk Management Framework.
- You receive
- A readiness score, gap analysis by area, and a phased roadmap.
IT Maturity & Cloud Migration Assessment
- For
- Organizations planning investment, a cloud migration or a change in IT leadership.
- Examines
- Strategy, budget, delivery, operations, vendors, resilience, data and cloud readiness. Mapped to COBIT 2019 and ITIL 4.
- You receive
- An IT maturity score, a cloud migration readiness rating and a 12-month roadmap.
- Assessment
- Results
- Consultation
- Roadmap
- Engagement, if it makes sense
Who you work with
Mohammad Elmallah
Founder & Principal Consultant · Fractional CIO, CTO & CISO
- MBA
- B.Eng
- CISSP
- CISM
- PMP
- CSM
- ITIL
- Azure
- Google Gen AI Leader
- NASBA Gen AI
Mohammad has more than 25 years of experience in hands-on technology roles and executive leadership. He has built and led software, infrastructure, DevOps, cybersecurity and project teams in insurance, financial services, healthcare, non-profits and the public sector.
He founded ABISOL so that organizations without a full-time CIO, CTO or CISO could still get that level of judgment. Every ABISOL engagement is senior-led, with vetted specialists from the ABISOL Expert Network when the work calls for them.
- Executive & Board-level advisory
- Cybersecurity programs & governance
- Regulated-industry experience
- Transformation & delivery leadership
Let's talk
Let's talk about your technology, cybersecurity or transformation priorities
Pick the option closest to your situation, or just tell us what's on your mind.
Complimentary 30-minute first conversation. No obligation. It is about understanding your situation and whether ABISOL can help. Prefer email? EmpowerUs@abisol.com