Is security slowing you down?

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Your engineering team has 100 engineers. In an unaligned security program, poorly implemented and unnecessary security practices drags their productivity down, costing you the equivalent of 2 or 3 full-time engineers. When you're trying to beat your competition, that hit makes a big difference and isn't even taking into consideration the security risks that you didn't even know you were incurring due to poor prioritization.

These drags on productivity are preventable by ensuring your security program is well designed and aligns with your business goals. 

Fractional, strategic security consulting allows companies who understand the value of high-quality, strategic leadership to bring in expertise and know-how before they’re at a stage where a full-time security leader is necessary. 

An experienced, seasoned CISO who’s been here before ensures there’s always clear guidance to steer clear of the pitfalls and sub-optimal decisions common to security programs that result in an often unseen, compounding tax on their business.

Unnecessary roadblocks: Engineers get frustrated when they're bogged down by security processes that don't make sense technically, or for your business. What does it cost you to have engineers less efficient and more frustrated than they need to be? 

Invisible waste: Agreeing to security requirements in customer contracts regardless of if they’re relevant or not wastes precious development resources better spent delivering revenue driving features. Are you overcommitting to security work that doesn’t deliver value just because you’re not sure if it’s really needed and of what will happen if you push back? 

Missed opportunities: Enterprise clients ask tough security questions that prolongs sales cycles when you don’t have an experienced hand to drive the process. We work closely with sales organizations to ensure that there’s no surprises so you can close quickly. This quarter. We’ve won multiple MVP awards from sales organizations that attest to our prowess here. Is your security team doing that?

With decades of hands-on CISO experience in Silicon Valley startups and the Fortune 500, we bring a unique blend of skills:

Executive experience: We've sat in the C-suite of some of the fastest growing and some of the largest companies in the world. We know how to align security with business goals at the highest levels.

Pragmatic approach: Security isn't about perfection; it's about enabling your business to thrive, securely.

Cross-functional fluency: We bridge the gap between engineering, finance, legal, leadership and your customers.

Technical depth: With strong engineering backgrounds, we speak the language of your developers and understand your systems at a fundamental level.  

Holistic Perspective: We’re former CISOs who have been responsible for engineering teams - Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps and IT – we understand how all the pieces fit together.

AI Security Expertise: Our founder, Nate is the lead author for the Cloud Security Alliance's paper on building secure LLM backed systems and the creator of O'Reilly's "AI for Cybersecurity Professionals" course. We work with AI-native companies built from the ground up to focus on building AI systems securely as well as with companies who are seeking to understand how AI fits into their broader strategy.

Proven Track Record: We’ve helped multiple fast growing software companies build and optimize their security programs, operating at the speed that today's fast moving companies demand.

We focus on ensuring security is an enabler to the business, not something that exists in a vacuum to serve its own purposes. 

Every engagement starts by understanding your strategic goals and what would have to be true for you to reach them. We meet with teams across the organization - sales, finance, engineering, IT, and support. With each, we build a shared understanding of the risks to those strategic goals and work with them to maximize your chances of reaching and exceeding them. 

While our focus is on strategic cybersecurity leadership, by the nature of the business, we’re engaged with your entire organization and often make outsized impacts in adjacent areas. We’re well versed in sales enablement to smooth the cycle and ensure that security and risk are never a blocker for your enterprise deals. 

We’ve saved customers hundreds of thousands of dollars by identifying process, staffing and tooling changes, even when it means moving spend away from the security domain and instead towards a different critical business goal. 

The success of your business is too important to leave a critical role in the hands of anyone other than an expert. Fractional CISO engagements with CloudsecAI allow you reap the benefits of that expertise without the cost burden of a full time executive.  

Align your security program with your business goals, not against them.

Empower your engineers to move fast and securely.

Build a security culture based on collaboration and continuous improvement, not compliance.

Give you the confidence to tackle enterprise security and AI governance reviews head on.

Implement controls that actually improve your risk posture, not just check boxes.