Many organisations need senior security leadership long before they can justify — or successfully recruit — a full-time Chief Information Security Officer.
The result is familiar: security decisions accumulate without an owner, the board asks questions nobody is mandated to answer, and technical staff are left making risk judgements that are not theirs to make.
COR5 provides experienced security leadership on a fractional basis. A defined number of days each month, a named individual, and genuine accountability for the security agenda — not advice delivered from a distance.
Accountability, not just advice.
Security Strategy & Roadmap
Own the security strategy, keep it aligned to business objectives, and maintain a roadmap that reflects real capacity and budget.
Board & Executive Reporting
Attend board and risk committee meetings, present the security position in business language, and answer for it.
Risk Ownership & Governance
Maintain the risk register, drive treatment decisions to a conclusion, and make sure accepted risks are accepted by someone with the authority to accept them.
Policy & Control Framework
Own the policy set and control framework, keeping both proportionate to the organisation rather than copied from a template.
Third-Party Assurance
Set the supplier assurance approach, review critical third parties, and respond to the security questionnaires your own clients send you.
Regulatory & Audit Engagement
Act as the security point of contact for regulators, auditors and clients, and prepare the organisation for scrutiny.
Team Development
Mentor internal security and IT staff, define roles and responsibilities, and build capability that outlasts the engagement.
Incident Escalation Support
Provide senior decision support during incidents, when the questions are commercial and reputational as much as technical.
Investment Prioritisation
Decide what to spend and what to defer, with reasoning the finance director and the board can both follow.
Senior ownership of the security agenda.
Board-level credibility, continuity of decision-making and a security function with a clear direction — at a fraction of the cost of a permanent appointment, and available from the point you need it rather than the point you can afford it.
Often combined with
Security leadership, from the point you need it.
Tell us where the gaps are — governance, reporting, regulatory pressure, or simply nobody senior owning it — and we will propose a shape and a cadence.