Unlocking Sales.
Building Trust.

Due Care. Due Diligence.
Reasonable Security.

Cybersecurity
as a Business Strategy.

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Fractional CISO services for growing businesses –
built around your obligations, your stakeholders, and your risk.

Your clients are asking harder questions. Your insurer wants more answers at renewal. Your regulators aren’t getting easier to satisfy. You don’t need an enterprise security team — you need the right program, built for your business, managed by someone who understands your world.

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WHO WE SERVE

Big enough to be a target.
Too small for a full-time CISO.

Data Security Partners works exclusively with businesses between $2M and $10M in annual revenue. You don’t need to hire a CISO — you need a fractional one: the same security leadership role your enterprise clients already have in-house, delivered as part of a structured program built for your size and budget.

No dedicated security staff

Most businesses your size don’t have — and don’t need — a full-time security executive. We fill that gap as your variable resource security program partner.

Real stakeholder pressure

Clients sending questionnaires. Insurers asking harder questions. Regulators updating requirements. Vendors handling sensitive data. The pressure is coming from every direction.

Compliance obligations

PCI-DSS, HIPAA, cyber insurance policy conditions, NIST 800-171, and enterprise vendor contracts all impose security requirements on businesses your size.

YOUR DUTY

Due Care. Due Diligence. Reasonable Security.

Every stakeholder your business depends on holds you to the same standard — documented, reasonable steps to protect the data entrusted to you. Not perfection. A genuine, defensible effort appropriate to your environment and risk profile.

That includes the people closest to your business — you, your employees, your vendors, the customers whose information you hold. Their data lives in your systems every day. That’s a duty of care you owe them directly, independent of whatever a regulator, insurer, or client contract requires.

That standard is also the basis of regulatory enforcement, insurance coverage decisions, and contract liability. A documented, active security program is how you demonstrate it.

“Documented” is the critical word. Security practices that live in someone’s head — or policies sitting on a shared drive that nobody uses — do not satisfy this standard.

OUR SERVICES

Two Tracks. Four Ways to Engage.

DSP’s services are organized around two parallel program tracks. Track 1 addresses your internal security posture. Track 2 addresses how you manage the vendors who handle your sensitive data — what the industry calls Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM). Each track has its own standalone entry point and a 3-year managed program. Both tracks can run independently — or concurrently.

TRACK 1

Security Risk
Assessment


The Starting point for Track 1.
A CIS Controls-based assessment of your security posture — helping you satisfy annual compliance requirements for PCI-DSS, HIPAA, NIST 800-171, cyber insurance, and enterprise vendor programs.

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$7,500

FLAT FEE
No ongoing commitment
Fee converts to 100% waiver of governance program onboarding fee if you engage within 90 days.

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Cybersecurity
Governance Program


The long-term Track 1 partnership.
A structured three-year program — built around your business, delivered by practitioners who understand your world. Three tiers to match your needs and budget.

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STARTING AT

$3,750/month

Plus onboarding fee. No-questions-asked offramp after 90-Day Foundation Phase

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TRACK 2

TPRM Scoping
Study


The Starting point for Track 2.
A 30-day engagement that maps your sensitive data,
identifies your in-scope vendors, and
establishes your compliance obligations —
before you commit to a full program.

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$7,500

FLAT FEE
No ongoing commitment

Full fee credited toward the TPRM Program onboarding fee if you engage within 90 days.

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3-Year TPRM
Program


The long-term Track 2 partnership.
Active, documented vendor risk management — built around your obligations, your vendors, and your data. Block pricing by vendor count; can run standalone, concurrently with Track 1, or as a continuation engagement.

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STARTING AT

$3,000/month

Plus onboarding fee. No-questions-asked offramp after 90-Day Foundation Phase

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WHY US

Built by Practitioners.
Delivered as a Partner.

Exclusively Mid-Market

We don’t work with enterprise clients on the side. Businesses between $2M and $10M in annual revenue are our entire focus — which means our frameworks, our pricing, and our approach are built for your world, not adapted from someone else’s.

A Program, Not a Project

Most security consultants hand you a report and disappear. Or worse, they hang around and try to upsell you on more services. We build programs — and stay to make sure they work. Quarterly Business Reviews, ongoing risk management, and vendor questionnaire support throughout your engagement.

Grounded in Recognized Standards

Our programs are built on NIST 800-53 — a comprehensive framework that maps cleanly to CIS Controls, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, and NIST 800-171 — assessed using the CIS Controls methodology across all 18 control areas. Your program documentation is directly linked to standards your stakeholders recognize and respect.

“A $3M B2B firm came to us to satisfy an enterprise client’s vendor security requirement. Two years later, together we’ve completed two annual risk assessments, sailed through three cyber insurance renewals, and built a complete cybersecurity procedures program — designed around their business, not a template.“

YOUR STAKEHOLDERS
ARE ALREADY ASKING THE QUESTIONS
We help you answer them.

The next step is a brief conversation — about your business, your stakeholders, and where your program stands today. No obligation. No pressure. Just clarity.

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