Security Expertise. End to End.

The CISO role is one of the hardest to fill. A strong CISO needs technical depth, strategic vision, the ability to present to a board, and operational pragmatism. For most mid-market companies, recruiting this profile full-time is neither economically justifiable nor necessary.

The fractional CISO — or virtual CISO (vCISO) — addresses exactly this need. You get a senior-level CISO available part-time, without the costs and constraints of an executive hire.

What a fractional CISO engagement covers

This is not a checkbox exercise. It means active presence in your organisation:

• Participation in leadership meetings and security committees
• Ownership of the security programme: priorities, action plan, KPIs
• Board and executive reporting (risk posture, incidents, compliance status)
• Steering security projects with internal teams and suppliers
• Incident management and crisis communication
• Handling security questionnaires from clients, partners, and auditors

Engagement models

Recurring fractional — regular availability, 1 to 3 days per month depending on size and need. Right for companies with an IT team but no CISO, or whose current security lead lacks the seniority to engage at board level.

Defined-scope mission — for specific needs: ISO 27001 audit preparation, internal security audit, security due diligence in an M&A context, or incident response.

Transition — if your organisation is recruiting an internal CISO, we can provide interim coverage during the search and support the onboarding.

Compliance that actually reduces risk

ISO 27001, NIS2, GDPR — compliance is often perceived as a constraint. Our approach is to treat it as an accelerator. Organisations that achieve certification or meet regulatory requirements are not just ticking boxes — they are building foundations that concretely reduce their exposure. We have guided organisations through ISO 27001 security audit preparation, from initial gap analysis to certification.

Identity has become the modern security perimeter. With 80% of breaches involving compromised credentials or identity misuse, IAM, PAM, and IGA programmes are no longer optional — they are the backbone of any serious security strategy.

TrustIn is one of the few independent consultants in Europe specialising in SailPoint Identity Security Cloud (ISC). The specialisation is deliberate: rather than a generalist offering, we master one platform end-to-end. That means faster implementations, fewer rework cycles, and programmes that hold up over time.

What this looks like in practice

An SailPoint ISC implementation is not simply installing software. It means modelling your business processes — joiners, movers, leavers — identifying authoritative sources (HRIS, Active Directory, business applications), designing roles and access policies, and integrating everything into your existing ecosystem.

• Requirements analysis and identity source mapping
• SailPoint ISC configuration (tenant setup, sources, schemas)
• Role modelling and RBAC/ABAC policy design
• Automated provisioning and deprovisioning workflows
• Access certification campaigns
• Integration with critical applications (SAP, ServiceNow, Microsoft 365, and more)
• Administrator training and technical documentation

Engagement models

Fixed-scope project — for organisations implementing SailPoint ISC for the first time, migrating from a legacy solution, or adding critical integrations. Typical duration: 3 to 9 months depending on scope.

Ongoing support — for live organisations that need an expert available for changes, periodic access certifications, or new integrations. Monthly retainer.

Why an independent consultant rather than a large integrator?

Large integrators bill entire teams and frequently subcontract. With TrustIn, you have one technical contact — the person who designs is the person who builds. No handoffs, no context lost between phases.

Most security incidents do not result from sophisticated attacks — they exploit architectural weaknesses that no one took the time to fix. An internal service exposed to the internet, hardcoded secrets, missing network segmentation, overly permissive cloud IAM roles. These problems are known, documented, and preventable.

Security architecture is about designing systems that are hard to compromise by design — not just hard to attack once they are in production.

A pragmatic approach to zero trust

Zero trust has become a marketing term. For us, it is an engineering principle: never trust implicitly, always verify. In practice, this means revisiting network segmentation, cloud resource access policies, machine identity and secrets management, and inter-service authentication mechanisms.

We do not sell 18-month zero trust transformation programmes. We work in targeted ways — where risk is highest — with changes your teams can actually implement.

Cloud security and infrastructure-as-code

Cloud adoption has created a new class of risks: publicly exposed resources due to misconfiguration, over-permissive IAM policies, missing encryption at rest. Our cloud architecture review covers these systematically, with recommendations grounded in your reality (AWS, Azure, GCP, or multi-cloud). For organisations using Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation, we embed our recommendations directly into infrastructure code — not just into a report.

DevSecOps: security in CI/CD pipelines

Integrating security controls into development pipelines — SAST, SCA, secret scanning, container image inspection — surfaces vulnerabilities before they reach production. We help engineering teams implement these controls without slowing down delivery.

Engagement models

Point-in-time review — audit of an existing architecture or a new system before production launch. Deliverable: risk report and remediation roadmap. Duration: 2 to 6 weeks.

Project advisory — embedded security architect on a transformation project (cloud migration, core system rebuild, new platform launch). Duration: aligned with the project.

Recurring advisory — regular availability for technical teams, review of proposed architectures, security decision arbitration. Ideal for scale-ups that ship fast.