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Automated compliance
250+ frameworks out of the box — cross-mapped to 1,468 universal controls. SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS v4.0, CMMC, NIST CSF v2.0, GDPR, and hundreds more. Evidence collected continuously from your live stack.
Why vCISO Lite
Compliance automation.
Cyber risk quantification.
vCISO consultancy.
Vanta · Drata · SprintoRiskLens · Safe Security · AxioPivot Point Security
Buy the three separately: $380,000/yr.
Buy them from vCISO Lite: $18,000/yr.
21× less.
That’s category-crushing.
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The category map
Every other vCISO stops at the security program. We keep going — dollars, diligence, and signed evidence.
Two variables that actually matter: how broad the working scope is (compliance only, vs. compliance + M&A + vendor incidents + resilience), and how rigorous the risk outputs are (traffic-light heat maps vs. FAIR-quantified dollars). Every vCISO peer trades one for the other. We refused to.
FAIR-quantified dollars
Risk output rigor
Traffic-light colors
Cyber risk quantification (pure-play)
FAIR-grade dollars, but that's the entire product — no compliance platform, no vendor incident math, no M&A diligence, no advisor. Enterprise-priced.
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vCISO Lite
Dollars. Diligence. Signed evidence.
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SOC 2 automation
Ship the checklist, collect evidence into folders, generate a report. No risk in dollars. No M&A workflow. No vendor incident math.
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vCISO platforms (traffic-light output)
Broader vCISO surface with advisor components — but the risk output is still red/yellow/green heat maps. No FAIR-quantified dollars, no M&A diligence, no cryptographic evidence.
CynomiHavoc Shield
Compliance only
Working scope
+ M&A + vendor incidents + resilience
vCISO peers stop at policies + a gap report. RiskLens quantifies but only that. Cynomi and Havoc Shield expand scope but still ship traffic-light outputs. vCISO Lite ships FAIR-quantified dollars, QCD-methodology M&A diligence, and evidence an auditor can cryptographically verify — at published mid-market prices, starting at $299/month.
What that means, specifically
They automate the checklist. We run the program.
Seven capabilities, one subscription, delivered continuously. If a working CISO would run it in a real security program, vCISO Lite runs it too.
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Cyber risk quantification
FAIR-grade Monte Carlo. Expected annual loss, P95 worst case, attack-vector attribution — in dollars, sourced to your posture, industry, and controls. Every tier.
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Vendor risk management
Continuous vendor monitoring, questionnaire automation, incident-specific exposure math when a vendor breaches. Not a status flag. Actual numbers.
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Due diligence for M&A
QCD (Quantitative Cyber Diligence) methodology. Cyber Cost of Deal produced in dollars across five pillars. Included in Ultra. Draft ready in five days from LOI.
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Security testing
On-demand adversarial testing via our partnership with The Red Claw Offensive Security. Attack chains tied to your business context; findings mapped to controls, compliance gaps, and dollar values in your risk model.
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Policy lifecycle management
AI-drafted policies aligned to your live stack. Versioning, review cadence, and evidence-of-approval baked in. Aligned to every framework you care about.
07 · ADVISORY
A real human vCISO ties the six together.4 hours a month on Ultra. Dedicated advisor on Enterprise with quarterly Other20 reviews. Not a Slack channel to sales — a CISO who reads your Q3 board pack and answers when a regulator emails at 4:47 PM on a Friday.
Head to head
What each platform actually ships.
Marketing pages hide the gaps. This one shows them. Every claim is checkable at the vendor’s own docs.
| Vanta | Drata | RiskLens | Pivot Point | vCISO Lite | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compliance automation | |||||
| Frameworks supported | 20+ | 20+ | — | Advisory only | 250+ cross-mapped to 1,468 controls |
| Vendor risk management | Partial | Advisory only | |||
| Vendor-incident exposure math | Advisory only | ||||
| Cyber risk in dollars (CRQ) | Advisory only | ||||
| M&A cyber diligence | Advisory only | ||||
| Offensive security testing | Advisory only | Red Claw partnership | |||
| Policy lifecycle management | Templates | Templates | Advisory only | ||
| vCISO advisory hours | Partner referral | Partner referral | Retainer only | Included, tier-scaled | |
| Board-ready reporting | Dollar only | Advisory only | |||
| Published pricing | Partial | ||||
| Starting price / yr | Quote-only | Quote-only | Quote-only | $54K | $3,600 |
Built by a CISO. Tested by a CISO.
CISO-tested.
Every capability on vCISO Lite exists because a working CISO needed it in a real security program. Not vibes. Not “AI ate compliance.” The security program a CISO would build for you, delivered in software.
Previously
Air Force. Fortune 500 retail. An IPO. Both sides of M&A. Every workflow here is one she needed at a real company.
Proof the platform isn’t built on vibes
We turned our IP into product. Every methodology this platform outputs is one the founder formalized, published, and shipped as running code:
QCDQuantitative Cyber Diligence — the 5-pillar M&A cyber-cost methodology behind Ultra’s diligence room.
DC-TPIRDependency-Centric Third-Party Incident Response — the vendor-breach exposure math no one else ships.
KRIEKey Risk Indicator Engine — automatic KRI derivation with calibrated thresholds.
CMAContinuous Maturity Assessment — the evidence-decay model in production since January 2026.
CRTFCalibrated Risk Tolerance Framework — the bridge from cyber risk to enterprise risk appetite.
BooksSomeone Else’s Breach and Someone Else’s Debt — both on Amazon; DC-TPIR chapter 9 formalizes the incident memory model.
Third-party voice
When you might want vCISO Lite instead.
“If security leadership is the missing piece, software alone won’t fill that gap. In that case, either a platform that includes meaningful vCISO support (such as vCISO Lite) or pairing Vanta / Drata with an external vCISO consultancy is often the more effective approach.”