Extend Your Cybersecurity Leadership
What is CISO Link?
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CISO Link is a specialised service from Collaborative Consulting designed to support Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and IT security leaders. It provides on-demand access to a virtual security specialist who helps bridge the gap between strategy and execution.
Whether your organisation struggles with aligning teams, applying governance frameworks, or translating policies into real outcomes, CISO Link acts as your CISO’s strategic partner — ensuring security goals are met, risks are managed, and the “rubber hits the road.”
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Why CISO Link?
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Modern CISOs face immense pressure: regulatory demands, fast-evolving threats, limited budgets, and staff alignment challenges. Many know what needs to be done but don’t always have the bandwidth or capacity to drive execution.
CISO Link fills that gap.
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What We Deliver
🔹 Issue Identification & Prioritisation
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Assess your security environment and highlight critical gaps.
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Focus on high-impact risks that matter to business resilience.
🔹 Governance & Frameworks
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Apply best-practice standards (ISO 27001, COBIT, NIST, DORA, POPIA).
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Build structured roadmaps and governance models that are practical, not just theoretical.
🔹 Staff Alignment & Enablement
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Help teams understand roles, responsibilities, and priorities.
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Facilitate workshops and frameworks to align IT, risk, and security staff with CISO objectives.
🔹 Execution Support
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Translate strategic initiatives into actionable programmes.
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Provide templates, toolkits, and delivery oversight to make progress visible and measurable.
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How CISO Link Works
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Engage — We meet with your CISO and leadership to understand your environment, challenges, and goals.
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Assess — Our virtual specialist reviews your current security posture against leading frameworks.
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Plan — We provide a roadmap of initiatives, quick wins, and long-term goals.
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Enable — We work alongside your team to implement frameworks, policies, and improvements.
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Sustain — Regular check-ins, reporting, and governance reviews keep the programme on track.
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Key Benefits
✔ Executive Leverage — Extend your CISO’s capacity without additional headcount.
✔ Rapid Alignment — Get teams and frameworks on the same page quickly.
✔ Proven Governance — Apply recognised standards for compliance and risk management.
✔ Operational Impact — Move from strategy documents to real outcomes.
✔ Scalable Engagement — Access expertise when you need it, without long-term overhead.
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Who Should Use CISO Link?
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Organisations with a single CISO or small security team struggling to keep pace.
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Enterprises facing regulatory audits or needing to align with frameworks like NIST, COBIT, or ISO.
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Companies where security strategy exists, but execution lags.
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Executives who want independent, board-level advisory support for security decisions.
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Why Collaborative Consulting?
With more than 20 years of experience in IT governance, cybersecurity, and IT service management, Collaborative Consulting has worked with leading banks, insurers, government agencies, and global enterprises.
Our blend of strategy and delivery expertise ensures that what we recommend is always practical, actionable, and aligned to business value.
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Take the Next Step
Empower your CISO. Align your security. Deliver results.
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