Executive Cybersecurity Leadership Without the Full-Time CISO
NorthPoint works alongside your existing IT team, MSP, and specialist providers to provide the executive cybersecurity leadership they aren't designed to provide.
Our work follows a simple progression: understand where you stand, make measurable progress, and maintain executive control.
1. CYBERSECURITY RISK & ROADMAP ASSESSMENT
Find the Path
Before deciding what to fix, leadership needs to know which risks actually matter.
Over four weeks, NorthPoint evaluates your cybersecurity program in the context of your business, customers, technology environment, and obligations. We then turn what we find into a prioritized executive roadmap.
Risk-to-Roadmap™ Framework
Discover → Assess → Define → Prioritize → Roadmap → Align
01
Discover
Understand the business, existing security program, customer requirements, available documentation, previous findings, and technology environment.
02
Assess
Evaluate business and governance exposure, customer requirements, cybersecurity capability, technology and security environment, and security operations.
03
Define
Establish the appropriate target state based on what the organization needs to protect and accomplish.
04
Prioritize
Determine what requires immediate attention, what comes later, and where risk can reasonably be accepted.
05
Roadmap
Turn priorities into an actionable plan with initiatives, ownership, dependencies, sequence, and timing.
06
Align
Give leadership a common understanding of the risks, business implications, priorities, and decisions ahead.
The assessment is intentionally executive-level and evidence-based rather than a penetration test, vulnerability assessment, formal compliance audit, or independent control validation.
What You Receive
Executive Cybersecurity Assessment
Prioritized Risk & Gap Scorecard
Strategic Cybersecurity Roadmap
First 90-Day Action Plan
Executive Findings & Decision Debrief
These are the defined deliverables for the assessment.
OUTCOME: Know where you stand, which risks matter most, and what should happen next.
2. NORTHPOINT CYBERSECURITY TRANSFORMATION™
Make the Transformation
A roadmap doesn't reduce risk unless someone drives it forward.
NorthPoint steps into the fractional CISO role for six months, providing executive ownership, direction, and accountability while your existing resources execute the technical work.
Course-to-Control™ Framework
Set the Course → Drive Progress → Validate & Set the Next Course
Days 1–30:
Set the Course Turn the roadmap into an executable plan. Confirm priorities, ownership, success measures, and immediate actions.
Days 31–60:
Drive Progress Direct the work, review proposed solutions and completed activities, resolve roadblocks, and elevate material decisions.
Days 61–90:
Validate & Set the Next Course Measure progress, verify completed work, reassess priorities, and establish the next 30/60/90-day plan.
Months 4–6
Repeat the cycle, creating a structured cadence of execution, measurement, and continuous improvement.
Direct → Review → Verify
NorthPoint provides the executive cybersecurity leadership. Your IT team, MSP, and specialist providers implement the technical solutions.
DIRECT
priorities and expectations
➔
REVIEW
solutions, work, and evidence
➔
VERIFY
results and progress
That division of responsibility is central to the NorthPoint delivery model.
Executive Visibility
Leadership receives a concise view of:
Risk
Progress
Exceptions
Decisions Required
Risk
Progress
Exceptions
Decisions Required
The scorecard uses meaningful measures available in the environment rather than reducing cybersecurity to an artificial single score.
OUTCOME: The roadmap becomes a managed program with measurable progress and clear executive accountability.
3. ONGOING VCISO LEADERSHIP
Maintain Executive Control
Once the initial transformation is complete, NorthPoint can remain in the vCISO role to provide ongoing governance, oversight, executive reporting, customer support, risk management, and regular roadmap resets.
The objective is to keep the cybersecurity program aligned as the business, technology environment, customer expectations, and risks change.
ADDITIONAL ADVISORY SERVICES
Broader Technology & Cybersecurity Expertise
NorthPoint's primary focus is fractional CISO leadership. Additional capabilities can support client needs where appropriate.
Fractional CIO Leadership
Technology strategy, modernization, investment priorities, organizational leadership, and alignment between technology and business objectives.
ISO 27001 & Security Program Advisory
Guidance for organizations developing or maturing an information security management system, including organizations pursuing ISO 27001 certification.
Third-Party & Vendor Risk
Independent assessment and executive guidance for cybersecurity risks introduced by critical vendors and business partners.
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