Cybersecurity Advisory
Most growing businesses can't justify a full-time CISO, but they still need strategic security leadership. Ridgepoint provides fractional cybersecurity expertise built on 25+ years of building IT and security programs at enterprise scale. We focus on strategy, assessment, and planning, and we work alongside the operational partners who keep your environment running day to day.
The Problem
Most growing businesses make security decisions reactively — a vendor sells a tool, a deadline slips, the board asks a question nobody can answer. Strategic leadership is what turns that into a plan. We provide the judgment of a senior security executive without the cost of a full-time hire, and we coordinate with whoever runs your environment.
How It Works
Our advisory work covers the security decisions that sit above day-to-day operations. We scope each engagement to your business, then work alongside the partners who run your environment.
What’s included
AI adoption is one of the fastest-moving risk surfaces a business faces today. We treat it as part of the same security conversation, not a separate one — usage policy, tool risk reviews, and access controls that match your environment. If AI is on your roadmap, our AI and automation work builds custom agents, Copilot deployments, and workflow automation, secured by the same team that handles your advisory work.
Ridgepoint was founded by John Roeser on 25+ years of building IT and cybersecurity programs at enterprise scale, including a Fortune 500 quick-service restaurant brand, a publicly traded technology company, and major cloud and datacenter migrations. That experience is the foundation for vendor-neutral advice you can actually act on.
FAQ
A vCISO — virtual or fractional CISO — provides senior security leadership on a monthly retainer instead of a full-time hire. It makes sense when an organization needs strategy, framework alignment, board-level reporting, or compliance ownership but cannot justify the cost of a full executive. Most of our vCISO clients are between 50 and 500 employees.
No. Ridgepoint is an advisory and delivery firm — we advise on security strategy and we build AI and automation projects. We don't run NOCs or SOCs, manage networks, or operate help desks. When clients need those services, we refer to managed services partners we trust.
No. Ongoing monitoring, alerting, and incident handling are operational work that belongs with a managed services provider, and we partner with firms that do that well. Our role is the strategy, assessment, and program work that sits above the day-to-day operations.
Yes. We help clients prepare for and respond to insurance applications and renewals — closing the gaps insurers ask about, documenting what is in place, and translating technical answers into the language brokers and underwriters expect. For organizations carrying or shopping coverage, the assessment usually pays for itself.
We work with your IT team or managed services partner, not around them. Our advisory work focuses on strategy, framework alignment, assessment, and oversight. The operational team continues to run the environment day to day, and we coordinate so recommendations land as concrete improvements rather than reports that go unread.
Next step
Every engagement starts with a working conversation, not a pitch. We learn about your business, you tell us what’s on your mind, and we tell you honestly whether we are the right fit.