Security leadership, without the full time hire.
A credentialed practitioner takes accountability for your security, privacy, and AI governance program on a retained basis. Your risk register, your board reporting, your client questionnaires, and your framework work all have one named owner.
Flat monthly fee, agreed up front. Three month minimum. Delivered in English or French.
One accountable owner, not a stack of documents.
The work is judgement work. We make the calls, write them down, and stand behind them in front of your board, your clients, and your auditor.
- Ownership of your security and AI risk register, kept current, not refreshed once a year
- A named accountable leader on your client questionnaires, insurance forms, and RFP responses
- Board and executive reporting in plain language, with the decisions you need spelled out
- Vendor and AI model due diligence before adoption, not after an incident
- Incident response readiness, including tabletop exercises and a plan people have actually read
- Framework ownership across Law 25, PIPEDA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and ISO 42001
- Direct line to a credentialed practitioner, with a reply in under 12 hours
When this is right, and when it is not.
- You are winning enterprise deals that ask who owns security, and you have no honest answer
- You are adopting AI faster than your governance can keep up
- You hold regulated data and a full time CISO is not proportionate yet
- Your insurer, your board, or your regulator has started asking specific questions
- You need a help desk, endpoint management, or a firewall rebuild. That is an IT provider, not a CISO
- You want a signature on documents you do not intend to follow
- You need someone on site full time in a single location
A rhythm you can plan around.
Baseline: AI and asset inventory, risk register, and the short list of things that must change first.
A working session with your leadership, register updated, decisions recorded, priorities reset.
Board ready reporting, framework progress, vendor reviews, and a tabletop or training block.
Client questionnaires, incident support, and go or no go calls on new AI tools.
Common questions
- What is a fractional CISO?
- A fractional CISO is an experienced security and risk leader who carries the accountability of a chief information security officer on a part time, retained basis. You get senior judgement, board reporting, and program ownership without a full time executive salary.
- How much does a fractional CISO cost in Canada?
- Auxlo retains fractional CISO engagements at a flat monthly fee agreed up front, scoped to the days per month you actually need. A full time CISO in Canada typically costs well into six figures in salary alone, before benefits and recruitment.
- Do you replace our IT provider?
- No. Your managed service provider or internal IT team runs the technology. The fractional CISO sets the direction, owns the risk register, decides what good looks like, and holds the delivery to that standard.
- Can a fractional CISO sign off on our compliance evidence?
- Yes for internal governance and client facing attestations. We prepare you to pass and we sign off internally. The independent auditor or certification body still issues the SOC 2 report or the ISO certificate.
- What is the minimum commitment?
- Three months. Anything shorter is a project, not leadership, and we would rather scope it as an assessment.
Mettez un praticien chevronné sur le problème.
Vingt minutes, sans argumentaire de vente. Vous décrivez la situation, nous vous disons ce que cela demande et si nous sommes la bonne pratique pour le faire.
- Tarif forfaitaire, coût total connu d'avance
- Un praticien chevronné répond en moins de 12 heures
- Résidence des données au Canada offerte dans les mandats payants
- Mandats livrés en français ou en anglais