Fractional CISO Advisory
Skirret Consulting
Set the line. Build it true.
A skirret marks one straight, true line before anything gets built. We do the same for your security: a clear baseline, a program that fits your size and obligations, and the discipline to keep it standing. Fractional security leadership for growing organizations, with deep roots in the defense industrial base, healthcare, higher education and research, technology, and manufacturing. Ready to build with any organization serious about getting it right.
What we do
Security leadership, sized to the organization.
Set the line
Assessments
Clarity first, understand your current security posture.
An independent, point-in-time evaluation of your security posture, measured against the framework, risk, or transaction that matters. You get clear, honest findings and a prioritized path forward. Run on a regular cadence, not once and filed away, consistent assessment is how a program stays defensible as it grows. It sets the line, then measures everything built after against it.
Build it true
Program Development
Built to your needs, ready to operate.
We design and build the program your needs and obligations require, whether security, risk, or AI governance, tailored to how your organization actually works. Charters, policies, standards, plans, and the governance structure your team needs to implement and operate it. All of it anchored on the frameworks and controls that fit, never boilerplate.
Keep it true
Fractional CISO
Senior security leadership, without the full-time hire.
Skirret acts as your trusted security executive, defining strategy, guiding the program, and translating risk into terms the business can act on, advising leadership on investment and risk, and your technical staff on control mapping and implementation. With Skirret you get senior-level expertise without the cost or commitment of a full-time hire, adapted to your needs, leading the program where there's no security head, or adding depth in a specific area where there is. We are your trusted partner in keeping your program governed and current as the threats and the business change.
Know the line
Workforce & Leadership Development
Strengthen the human side of security.
People are the largest threat vector an organization has, and the one most programs underinvest in. We close that gap by helping you develop a workforce that recognizes threats, a leadership team that understands its risk, an organization staffed to defend itself, and decision-makers rehearsed for the moments that matter. Delivered through live awareness workshops, executive and board education, tabletop exercises, and security hiring advisory, onsite or remote.
Frameworks, standards, regulations & contracts
Mapped to what your world runs on.
Frameworks
- CIS Critical Security Controls
- Secure Controls Framework (SCF)
- NIST Cybersecurity Framework
- NIST Risk Management Framework
- NIST AI Risk Management Framework
Standards & Controls
- NIST SP 800-171 (CMMC)
- NIST SP 800-53 (FedRAMP)
- SOC 2
- ISO/IEC 27001
- ISO/IEC 27701
- ISO/IEC 42001
Regulatory & Contractual Requirements
- Client security requirements
- Breach-notification requirements
- Cyber-insurance requirements
A representative set, not an exhaustive list.
Names change; the discipline doesn't. We set the line based on your commitments, whatever defines them. A single program mapped to all your obligations so you can answer to the business, your clients, regulators, and insurers in a clear and concise manner.
About the firm
A steady hand on the program.
Skirret Consulting, LLC is a fractional CISO advisory firm. With a singular focus: help growing organizations build a robust, defensible security program that is aligned to their risk and meets the obligations their clients and regulators put in front of them, and do it without the overhead of a full-time executive.
The approach is grounded in established frameworks and shaped to the size and risk of each client. No theater, no shelf-ware. A functioning program that performs when tested and adapts to the ever-changing threat landscape.
The firm's name comes from an old builder's tool used to mark straight, true lines before a foundation is laid. That is what we bring to the table, the tools and knowledge to set the line, then everything built on it endures.
Start the conversation
Let's get the line set, and begin building today.
Tell us a little about your firm and what's prompting the call, and we'll get back to you directly. No pitch, no pressure, just a short call and straight talk about your challenges and what you're trying to solve.