Fractional CISO for defense electronics manufacturers
Someone who owns security as your line changes.
A part-time security lead working inside your electronics business: recording the decisions on line equipment and testers, keeping the plan current as customers and stations change, and speaking to the program when a customer asks. Capital Cyber, based in Leesburg, Virginia, provides fractional CISO services for defense electronics manufacturers and works on-site across Northern Virginia.
For electronics manufacturers with a Level 2 requirement and nobody whose job is the security program.
What drifts on an electronics line after the score is posted?
A new tester arrives with its own PC. A fixture vendor needs remote access to service it. A customer changes how it sends data packages. A firmware job brings a new programming tool. Each one changes the SSP, and none of them waits for an annual review.
Who decides when an unpatched tester stays in service?
Someone has to, in writing. The fractional CISO brings the question to a recorded review, with the risk and the compensating measures, so the decision has an owner and a date instead of becoming an accident.
Who speaks when a customer asks about security?
The fractional CISO can speak to the program from the SSP and the review record, so the answer your customer gets is accurate and consistent.
Who keeps the affirmation honest?
A senior official of your company signs the annual affirmation, not us. Keeping the plan and POA&M current between assessments is how that signature rests on facts.
Which requirements does this touch?
NIST SP 800-171CM.L2-3.4.4
Security Impact Analysis
Before a new tester or vendor connection goes live, someone writes down what it does to the boundary. Evidence is the analysis attached to the change.
RA.L2-3.11.3
Vulnerability Remediation
Vulnerabilities on tester PCs are remediated in line with the risk assessment, or the decision not to is recorded. Evidence is the review record.
MA.L2-3.7.5
Nonlocal Maintenance
Equipment vendors servicing a machine remotely use multifactor authentication and the session is ended when done. Evidence is the session log.
CA.L2-3.12.3
Security Control Monitoring
Controls are monitored between assessments. Evidence is the recorded reviews and what they found.
What do you receive?
SCOPED PER CLIENTA security lead inside the business
A part-time security and compliance lead working from inside your electronics business.
Recorded reviews
What was decided, by whom, and what changed.
The plan and POA&M kept current
Updated as testers, customers and suppliers change, between assessments.
Someone to speak to the program
When a customer or an assessor asks about it.
A scoping call to start
To agree which reviews, how often, and what is already in place, with a gap assessment first if there is no recent one.
What does this service not include?
We are not an Authorized C3PAO and we do not certify anyone. A fractional CISO is a part-time role we provide, not a full-time hire, and what we can commit to is our own accountability rather than what a third party will do.
The full service, for any industry: Fractional CISO. Where most engagements start: the CMMC Level 2 gap assessment.
Questions we hear
Is a fractional CISO full-time?
No. It is a part-time role we provide. Shape and cadence are scoped per client.
Who signs the annual affirmation?
A senior official of your company. The fractional CISO keeps the plan and POA&M current so that signature rests on facts.
Can the fractional CISO decide to keep an unsupported tester running?
The fractional CISO brings the risk and options to a recorded review. Your business makes and owns the decision, and it goes on the record.
What if we have no gap assessment?
The role starts with one, so the plan it owns matches your line as it really runs.
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Book a 30-minute call.
BOOK A CALLScoped per client, so the first step is a conversation. Pick a time.
What happens in 30 minutes
- We learn about your business and the defense contracts you hold or are bidding on.
- We walk you through a gap assessment, the first step toward CMMC, and what it covers.
- If you qualify, we help you apply to Cyber Grants Alliance for an in-kind grant, which provides the gap assessment itself. No slides.
Talk to us about it.
This is scoped per client, not priced on a page. Tell us what you have and we will tell you what it takes.
Defense supplier under 75 people? Start with the grant.
Cyber Grants Alliance, a nonprofit, awards in-kind cybersecurity grants. It provides the work itself, including CMMC Level 1 and Level 2 gap assessments. There is no cost to you, and you are under no obligation to buy anything afterward, from us or from anyone.