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. We are the security leader you embed, not the consultant you hire. Strategy, program build, audit defense, and the board memo that makes the room go quiet, all owned by the same senior practitioner from day one.
A working program, not a deck.
Six deliverables that turn security from a function 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 strategy. We sequence what matters and defer what doesn't.
Enterprise risk management
A risk register your team can actually maintain. Treatments with owners and dates. Quarterly review cadence the board signs off on.
Security technology evaluation
Tool selection by someone who's 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 and reduce risk.
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 over to your next leader.
You're past the point of "security is 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 the items between board meetings.
A partnership, not a project.
Engagements run 12 to 36 months because programs are capabilities, not one-time deliverables. The structure below repeats: discover, plan, execute, iterate.
Discovery
Direct conversation. We learn the business, the risk landscape, what's in the audit cycle, the regulators you answer to, the team you have, and the political map. No questionnaire, no maturity survey. We read the room instead.
Roadmap
Risk-sequenced and resourced, with a real board view. The deliverables we'll defend in front of the audit committee, the residual risk we're accepting, the items the regulator will ask about next. Tied to risk reduction, not effort hours.
Execute
We sit in the audit committee meetings, write the board memos, run the incident response calls, and manage the auditors during fieldwork. Your team gets faster because we're in the room, not on a status call once a week.
Iterate
Re-baseline the risk register against fresh threat intel, re-sequence the roadmap against the audit calendar, brief the board with the metrics they actually use. The program gets 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. There is no partner-to-associate handoff after the engagement starts. There is 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 security consultants leave before the regulator shows up. We have walked into rooms with HHS, the SEC, state AGs, and federal prosecutors on the other side of the table. We have sat next to the auditors during fieldwork and the lawyers during disclosure. The advice you get is shaped by what regulators actually accept and what auditors actually 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 frameworks, the audit playbooks, the board reporting templates, all 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.
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.
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