Independent cybersecurity assessment
Cybersecurity, Led by a Fractional CISO
Cybersecurity, strategy, and risk management for UK scaling businesses. Our fractional CISOs find where you are exposed, rank the risks that matter, and lead the fix, with no tool to sell you and no scare tactics. Just the honest picture and a plan you can act on.
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What it is
Cybersecurity at Boardman is senior security leadership, delivered as a fixed-scope engagement rather than a retainer or a tool you did not need.
A fractional CISO, someone who has genuinely led security in real businesses, assesses where your security actually stands, identifies the risks that would hurt you most, and gives you a prioritised plan to close them. Where you want it, they stay on to lead the work.
This is not a managed service, and it is not software. An MSP maintains your security tooling. A platform automates a slice of it. A fractional CISO decides what you should be doing in the first place, holds your suppliers and tools to account, and owns the outcome. Most businesses have the tools and the MSP already, what they lack is someone senior and independent making sure it all adds up to actual protection.
We offer three fixed-price ways in, from a fast review to a full strategy with a costed 90-day plan.
When to use it
Bring in a fractional CISO when security has become something no one senior fully owns.
It fits a business scaling past the point where security was someone's side responsibility. It fits a leadership team that suspects it is exposed but cannot get a straight answer on where or how badly. It fits a company facing customer or investor security scrutiny it is not ready for. And it fits any board that wants independent assurance on cyber risk, from someone with no tool or contract to sell on the back of it.
If you need a recognised certification such as ISO 27001, that is a specific engagement, see our [ISO 27001 and security assessment service]. This page is about security leadership, posture, and risk more broadly.
What we look at
- Security posture, across the whole business. Where you are exposed, and how badly, not just in IT but in how the business actually works.
- Cyber risk, ranked. The threats that matter to your business, assessed and prioritised in plain terms, so you know what to fix first.
- Suppliers, cloud, and third parties. Where your risk sits outside your own walls, and whether your providers are earning their place.
- People and process. Where most breaches actually start, and what needs to change.
- Tooling and spend. Whether what you pay for is protecting you or just costing you, assessed independently of any vendor.
- Governance and accountability. Who owns security, and the controls a board, insurer, or investor will expect.
What you receive
Depending on the engagement you choose:
- A ranked view of your security risks, in plain business language
- An honest assessment of your posture and where you are most exposed
- A prioritised plan to close the gaps that matter
- Where you take the 90-day plan, a costed, sequenced roadmap of what gets fixed first, what it costs, and who does it
- A debrief with your leadership team
Everything is written for leaders, not engineers, and independent of any tool or supplier.
Three ways to buy it
Fixed prices, published, no hourly rates. You know what the work costs and what you get before you commission it.
How it works
- Security call. We understand your business, your risks, and what is worrying you.
- Assessment. A fractional CISO examines your posture, risks, suppliers, people, and tooling.
- Findings. You get a clear, ranked view of what is exposed and what it means.
- Plan. A prioritised plan to close the gaps, costed and sequenced where you take the 90-day version.
- Debrief. We walk your leadership team through it.
- Support, optional. Where you want it, your fractional CISO stays on to lead the work.
Who it is for
- Scaling businesses whose security has outgrown any real ownership.
- Leadership teams that suspect they are exposed and want a straight, independent answer.
- Companies facing customer or investor security due diligence.
- Boards that want independent assurance on cyber risk.
What it does not cover
This is security leadership and assessment. It is not a managed security service (we are not your SOC or your helpdesk), and it is not a software product.
Where you need those, we will tell you, and make sure what you have is actually serving you. Where you need a specific certification such as ISO 27001, that is our ISO 27001 and security assessment service.
Find out where you're exposed, before someone else does
No pitch. A straight, independent read on your security from a CISO who has no tool to sell you.
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