Fractional CISO leadership, cybersecurity posture assessments, executive reporting and practical remediation planning, for organizations that need senior security leadership without a full-time CISO.
Risk heat map (likelihood × impact)
Top risks · owner · due
If you can't answer these with confidence, a Fractional CISO can help.
Every finding comes to your leadership team the same way, from risk through to who is accountable.
The technical finding.
What it would mean for the organization.
Ranked against everything else on the register.
The effort and cost, in plain terms.
Who acts, and how progress is tracked.
Illustrative example. Real findings, priorities and owners come from your assessment.
Engage ABISOL as your ongoing Fractional CISO, or for a specific piece of work.
An experienced security executive on your leadership team, part-time. He owns the security program and the risk register, and reports to your CEO and Board.
A clear view of your exposure across identity, devices, email, cloud, data and backups, with prioritized findings.
What an attacker can see of you from the internet: exposed services, domains and leaked credentials.
Every material cyber risk with an owner, a business impact, a treatment plan and a due date.
Plain-language quarterly reporting on risk, progress and the decisions leadership needs to make.
A sequenced 12-month plan tied to your risk register and budget.
Practical security policies sized to your organization, that staff follow and auditors accept.
A plan, playbooks and a leadership tabletop exercise, so you know who decides and what happens first.
Recovery targets and tested plans to keep operating through an outage or attack.
Practical sessions on phishing and payment fraud, and a no-blame way for staff to report.
Alignment with NIST CSF 2.0, CIS Controls, ISO 27001, SOC 2, PIPEDA, Quebec Law 25 and OSFI B-13 where it applies.
ABISOL does not replace your IT team. We provide the cybersecurity leadership, governance and executive perspective that internal teams often don't have the capacity or mandate to provide.
Your IT team and MSP keep systems running and implement controls. ABISOL decides which risks matter most, sets the standards, checks that they're met, and explains it all to your leadership.
The result is a clear division of labour and an advocate for the security budget your team needs.
Practical deliverables your leadership, auditors and insurers can use. Samples are available on request.
Risk, trends and decisions on one page.
Owners, impacts, treatments and dates.
12 months, sequenced and costed.
Plain language, quarterly.
Who decides, who to call, first steps.
Founder · Fractional CISO · CISSP · CISM
He has built and led cybersecurity programs aligned with OSFI B-13, ISO 27001, NIST CSF 2.0 and SOC 2, from policy through Board reporting. He has worked across insurance, financial services, healthcare, non-profits and the public sector.
More about MohammadYour MSP runs security tools and keeps systems patched, and that's essential. A CISO decides what level of risk is acceptable, which controls matter most, how vendors are governed and what the Board hears. That work sits above the MSP's contract. ABISOL sets those priorities and holds your providers to them.
No one can honestly guarantee that. What we can do is reduce both the likelihood and the impact of an incident, make sure you can recover, and make sure you could show regulators, insurers and clients that you took reasonable, risk-based steps.
Most attacks are automated and opportunistic. They look for weak passwords, missing MFA and unpatched systems, whatever the size of the organization. Smaller organizations often hold sensitive client, member, donor or patient data with fewer protections around it.
Insurance transfers part of the financial impact, but it doesn't prevent an incident or the disruption it causes. Insurers also expect specific controls such as MFA, tested backups and an incident plan, and claims can be affected if those controls weren't in place.
It depends on who you sell to and what they ask for. We'll tell you honestly whether certification is worth it now, or whether a well-documented, framework-aligned program meets your clients' and regulators' expectations for the time being.
When a test is warranted, ABISOL scopes it and brings in a vetted specialist from the ABISOL Expert Network who works under your fractional CISO's direction. Your fractional CISO then translates the findings into business risk and priorities for your leadership.
The free assessment is a quick self-assessment for smaller organizations and a good first step. A posture assessment or Fractional CISO engagement goes further: we verify the evidence, cover your specific regulatory and vendor context, and own the plan and the reporting over time.
Often not right away. Many organizations already pay for strong security features, in Microsoft 365 for example, that aren't switched on or configured. ABISOL is vendor-independent and doesn't resell anything, so we start with what you own.
A no-obligation conversation about your exposure, your obligations and what to do first.
Also see: Cybersecurity services · Fractional CIO / CTO · About Mohammad
Guides: The controls cyber insurers ask about · RIBO cyber security for brokerages · OSFI B-13 for mutual insurers · Law 25 and PIPEDA for non-profits
