Senior security leadership,
embedded in your team.
When the regulator calls, when the board asks, when an incident hits, you need someone in the seat who has been there before. The security leader you embed, not the consultant you hire.
A working program, not a deck.
Six deliverables that turn security from a box on the org chart into a capability the board can rely on. Each one owned by the same senior practitioner from day one.
Board & executive reporting
Risk reporting the board actually uses. Quantified, sequenced, and tied to business outcomes, not threat-of-the-week charts.
Security strategy & roadmap
A prioritized, resourced roadmap mapped to your business. We sequence what matters and defer what doesn't.
Enterprise risk management
A risk register your team can maintain. Treatments with owners and dates, on a cadence the board signs off on.
Security technology evaluation
Tool selection by someone who has run the platforms in production. RFPs, POCs, vendor consolidation, no analyst-firm theater.
Program metrics & KPIs
The handful of metrics that actually move. Defined, instrumented, and reviewed monthly. Stop dashboarding everything.
Compliance program oversight
Audit prep, control design, evidence collection. HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS. Built to pass scrutiny.
Security leadership you can put in front of a regulator, a board, and an auditor in the same week.
Three situations where this fits.
You lost your CISO and a full-time hire is six to twelve months out. We step in to keep the program moving, run the board reviews, manage audits in flight, and hand a healthy program to your next leader.
You're past the point of "security lives in IT," but a full-time CISO is still over-built for the stage. We bring the seniority for the next two years of growth while your in-house team grows underneath.
Diligence flagged security gaps. You need a CISO-level operator embedded for the value-creation plan, board-ready reporting, and the muscle to actually close items between board meetings.
A partnership, not a project.
Engagements run 12 to 36 months because programs are capabilities, not one-time deliverables. The cycle repeats: discover, plan, execute, iterate.
Direct conversation. We learn the business, the risk landscape, the audit cycle, the regulators you answer to, and the team you have. No questionnaire. We read the room.
Risk-sequenced and resourced, with a real board view: the deliverables we'll defend to the audit committee, the residual risk we're accepting, the items the regulator asks about next.
We sit in the audit-committee meetings, write the board memos, run the incident calls, and manage auditors during fieldwork. Your team gets faster because we're in the room.
Re-baseline the risk register against fresh intel, re-sequence the roadmap against the audit calendar, brief the board with the metrics they use. Sharper, not heavier.
No layers between the work and the senior practitioner.
Senior, all the way through.
The person you meet in the proposal is the person who writes your board memos. No partner-to-associate handoff after the engagement starts, no account manager forwarding your emails. We staff senior because that's the only way to deliver senior-quality work.
We have sat in the regulator's chair.
Most consultants leave before the regulator shows up. We have been in rooms with HHS, the SEC, state AGs, and federal prosecutors across the table, next to the auditors during fieldwork and the lawyers during disclosure. The advice is shaped by what regulators accept and auditors credit, not by what a methodology slide says they should.
Built by a CISO who has held the seat.
Pylon is led by a CISO who has held the role at private-equity-backed portfolio companies and regulated health systems. The playbooks and board templates were written from inside the role, under real audit and incident pressure, not adapted from a methodology library that has never been deployed at scale.
We build muscle, not dependency.
Every engagement is designed to make the next one shorter. We document the playbooks, train your team, and hand off the runbooks. A program you can run without us is the only outcome that matters.
Three more ways we embed.
Set direction, modernize the stack, and rationalize the technology spend.
Explore → Governance, Risk & ComplianceFrameworks built for evidence, not just policy. SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA.
Explore → AI EngineeringWe find where AI creates value inside your operation, then build and ship it.
Explore →A 30-minute conversation, not a sales call.
Tell us what's on your plate. We'll tell you whether Embedded CISO is the right fit, and what the first 90 days would look like if it is.