Braden enhances CISO-level leadership, a prioritized security roadmap, and compliance coverage across more than 23 frameworks.
Braden Business Systems, the #1 ranked managed IT provider in Indiana and #116 nationally on the Channel Futures MSP 501, has enhanced its virtual Chief Information Security Officer (vCISO) and compliance advisory services in its managed IT portfolio with a partnership through Cyberstone.
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Our clients have never lacked technology. What they have lacked is someone accountable for security strategy.”
— Erik Braden, Managing Partner of Braden Business Systems
The service gives mid-market organizations something most have never had: a named owner for security strategy and compliance. A vCISO sits above day to day IT operations, setting security priorities and translating technical risk into business terms for leadership, then working alongside Braden’s engineering and security operations teams to execute. It answers the question boards, cyber insurance carriers, and client security questionnaires now ask directly, which is who owns security at your company.
Braden customers can expect:
• A prioritized roadmap in [three business days]. The Foundation phase covers stakeholder discovery, a cybersecurity assessment, and an external vulnerability assessment, producing a ranked action plan and baseline policies mapped to the frameworks that apply to the client’s industry.
• Coverage across more than 23 compliance frameworks, including NIST CSF, NIST SP 800-171, CMMC, the HIPAA Security Rule, PCI DSS, SOC 2, ISO 27001, the FTC Safeguards Rule, and CIS Controls, with frameworks added as a client’s regulatory environment grows.
• A defined cadence that runs on Braden’s side of the desk. According to Cyberstone, its model requires roughly 3.1 percent of a client team’s time, about 64 hours a year, compared with the 6 to 12 percent typical of conventional security projects. Monthly vulnerability and tactical reviews, quarterly posture reviews, and semiannual executive briefings keep the program moving without pulling staff off their core work.
• CISO-level leadership at a flat monthly cost, delivered by senior consultants working on an AI-enhanced compliance platform that removes the documentation and tracking overhead that normally stalls security programs.
“Our clients have never lacked technology. What they have lacked is someone accountable for security strategy,” said Erik Braden, Managing Partner of Braden Business Systems. “This puts a security executive on every account that wants one, backed by the same team already running their environment. Strategy and execution under one roof is the whole point.”
“Braden is the kind of partner this model was built for, a provider with the service discipline to turn security strategy into completed work rather than another report on a shelf,” said Carl Benevento, Channel Manager at Cyberstone.
The vCISO service is strategic and advisory. Implementation of security controls continues to be delivered by Braden’s managed IT and security operations teams, which include 24/7 managed detection and response, giving clients one accountable partner for both the plan and the work..
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