Cybersecurity Governance Baseline
Establish the current state, material obligations, system and provider dependencies, ownership gaps, and prioritized cyber risks. The baseline produces a six-month roadmap and executive readout.
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Lead cybersecurity with executive accountability.
Sanctuary Cyber Solutions provides Fractional Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) leadership for growing companies that need to govern cybersecurity, hold vendors accountable, and make informed decisions without building an internal security office first.
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Cybersecurity Governance Baseline
An evidence-informed baseline of cybersecurity governance, risk ownership, vendor accountability, incident preparedness, third-party exposure, and security-program direction—guided by a tailored NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0 profile.
The engagement produces
- Executive cybersecurity baseline
- Prioritized cyber risk register
- Six-month roadmap and executive leadership readout
A disciplined executive-service model
Assess. Build. Lead.
Cyber Solutions follows the same progression as Risk Solutions: establish the baseline, stand up the governance structure, then maintain accountable executive leadership. Each phase has a distinct purpose and boundary.
Cybersecurity Program Buildout
Turn the baseline into a working governance structure: decision rights, a maintained cyber risk register, control priorities, provider accountability, reporting cadence, evidence expectations, and escalation paths.
Fractional CISO Leadership
Maintain executive direction across risk decisions, providers, control progress, evidence, exceptions, customer requirements, and specialist coordination through an initial six-month leadership term.
When Sanctuary Cyber Solutions fits
When cybersecurity has become a business decision.
Sanctuary Cyber Solutions is built for leaders who need accountable security direction before hiring a full internal security office or adding another technical vendor.
- Customer, lender, investor, or cyber-insurance security expectations are becoming material.
- The company relies on an MSP, MSSP, cloud platforms, or critical technology vendors—but executive accountability is unclear.
- Growth, acquisition, a major customer, a technology change, or a control concern has raised the stakes.
- Leadership needs a security program and a clear decision cadence before a serious disruption exposes the gap.
The complete governance lifecycle
All seven Risk Management Framework steps—scaled to the business.
Sanctuary uses the full NIST Risk Management Framework as an executive governance lifecycle, not as a one-time compliance exercise. Select a step to see how it is applied.
RMF Step 01
Prepare
Establish business context, stakeholders, risk strategy, governance roles, system boundaries, information dependencies, and the organizational conditions needed to manage cybersecurity risk.
RMF Step 02
Categorize
Determine the potential business impact of losing confidentiality, integrity, or availability and use that impact view to define what systems, data, processes, and providers require protection.
RMF Step 03
Select
Choose and tailor proportionate security and privacy controls, document intended outcomes, assign ownership, and define the evidence and monitoring approach needed to support risk decisions.
RMF Step 04
Implement
Direct accountable owners, MSPs, MSSPs, and specialist providers against the approved roadmap. Implementers perform the technical work; Sanctuary governs scope, ownership, sequencing, evidence, and exceptions.
RMF Step 05
Assess
Review evidence and evaluate whether selected controls are implemented as intended within the agreed scope. Where independent technical testing is required, Sanctuary coordinates the appropriate qualified assessor.
RMF Step 06
Authorize
Prepare the risk picture, residual-risk decisions, recommendations, and supporting evidence so the client’s accountable executive can approve, conditionally approve, or decline continued operation or use.
RMF Step 07
Monitor
Maintain the risk register, track changes and remediation evidence, refresh priorities, and support recurring executive decisions. This is governance oversight—not continuous technical monitoring or a SOC service.
Important boundary: This is a tailored commercial application of RMF discipline. It is not a representation of FISMA compliance, a federal authorization, independent certification, or continuous technical monitoring.
What we lead
Executive direction across the priorities that matter.
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Cybersecurity Priority 01
Security Strategy & Risk Appetite
Defines the security priorities, decision thresholds, leadership accountabilities, and investment direction that align the security program to the business.
Cybersecurity Priority 02
Cybersecurity Governance & Metrics
Establishes usable governance, reporting, policies, exceptions, and executive metrics so leaders can see what requires attention and ownership.
Cybersecurity Priority 03
MSP, MSSP & Vendor Accountability
Clarifies expectations, evidence, escalation paths, and executive oversight for the IT and security vendors the business relies on.
Cybersecurity Priority 04
Cyber Risk & Remediation Priorities
Organizes cyber risk into clear priorities and accountable next steps, without turning Sanctuary into the technical remediation provider.
Cybersecurity Priority 05
Third-Party & Customer Security Readiness
Prepares leadership to address customer, insurer, lender, and partner security expectations while identifying the right specialist support where needed.
Cybersecurity Priority 06
Incident Governance & Specialist Coordination
Sets the executive decision structure and partner coordination needed before a cybersecurity incident creates unnecessary confusion or delay.
How the priorities work: Each priority is governed through an executive view of ownership, evidence, decisions, and accountable next steps. The baseline is guided by a tailored NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 profile.
Ongoing leadership
Fractional Chief Information Security Officer Leadership
Ongoing CISO leadership for strategy, board and CEO reporting, policy and exception governance, MSP/MSSP oversight, third-party risk, and specialist coordination.
Discuss the right engagement structure →Professional boundaries
Sanctuary Cyber Solutions is governance and leadership—not managed IT, a SOC/MDR service, monitoring, technical remediation, endpoint administration, penetration testing, forensics, incident response, or certification.
Private consultation
Begin with a confidential conversation.
Tell us what has changed, what is at stake, and where you need an accountable executive view.
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