Fractional Offerings - Gilliam Security

Hiring for the CSuite is often expensive and difficult. Some of the challenges include time to hire, the ability to afford overhead of hiring another c-level or technical resource and the risk of loosing the resource shortly after hire due to another organization reaching out to your resource with a benefit you cannot provide.

To address this issue, Gilliam Security offers fractional resources that are recognized experts in each of their respective fields with the benefit of offering your organization:

A vision based on what is current in industry and business strategy. The strategy is yours but with the expertise of knowledge from across several verticals within the ability to quickly adopt to changing business strategies and regulatory environments.
A team led by the fractional resource. Each fractional resources comes with the ability to bring a team enabling your organization to be elastic to your needs without the fear of attrition or needing to post and interview for additional positions.
A known and predetermined cost model. With the use of fractional resources, one can appropriately forecast need and plan for budgeting without the threat of surprise or business cost such as unemployment insurance, bonus payments, or fringe benefits such as PTO and 401(k). Gilliam Security posts pricing upfront to support transparency and allow for negotiating.
An immediate start date. Fractional resources provide their own secure, compliant devices that will meet and exceed your device requirements. For this reason, work can begin immediately. Third-Party Background checks of resources are available and provided to the client prior to the commencement.
Industry Relationships. Often times as a program is built and maintained, new hardware and/or software is often needed. Gilliam Security maintains agreements with third parties to provide software and hardware to clients at prices often below retail that have been negotiated already.
Pay for what you use. A fractional resource is even better than a 1099 contractor. As a fractional resource, an organization is only billed for the hours worked directly for an organization.
Neutral politically. Hiring a resource often introduces politics due to fear of retaliation or personal motives. As a third-party, the fractional resource has no motives or relationships that would sway his or her opinion one way or another.
Natural succession planning. As a fractional resource, all work (including processes, documents, and meetings) are documented in detail to quickly allow another person or third-party to quickly jump in and take over from where the fractional resource stopped.

vCISO – Virtual Chief Information Security Officer

The vCISO is able to quickly jump in to help the leadership team address information security workload and concerns. Concerns including how to secure existing, or legacy, systems in your environment to having a quick turnaround for security new systems or micro services on the cloud.

The vCISO has access to legal, technical and IT resources to quickly run ideas against and take action to ensure compliance to both your requirements as well as current and future regulatory requirements.

In the case of some regulatory requirements such as NYDFS Part 500, a CISO required. An organization can quickly address this requirement by using a fractional resource that is available only when needed.

vCCO – Virtual Chief Compliance Officer

The vCCO brings in compliance expertise immediately to your leadership team that can either be technical or legal in nature. In the capacity of being a fractional resource, the resource naturally serves as either a second or third line of defense. Whether your concern is becoming with CPRA or understanding how a vendor contract would impact your corporate governance, a vCCO can quickly help ease your concerns.

vCPO – Virtual Chief Privacy Officer

Privacy is an active threat to organizations daily with GDPR, CCPA and additional legislation being created daily. In order to stay ahead of the curve, as well as to address concerns on your desk today regarding privacy, an organization usually has to spend a tremendous amount of ramp up time and expense to hire a resource and build out a program.

Spend less time and get results by using a fractional resource to get the program built while you focus your time to hire another resource.

vArchitect – Virtual Architect

Cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and the Google Cloud Platform introduce changes often.

In order to ensure your organization truly achieves the financial benefit of the cloud, one needs to constant be trained on changes as well as best practices.

Often times resources are trained and quickly run to another organization due to not being able to meet salary demands. Mitigate this risk through the use of fractional resources that are already well versed and committed to staying up-to-date with our fear of one running to another organization.