A compliance deadline you can't miss
A framework has become a condition of doing business. I build the program end to end — risk analysis, policies, controls, and the evidence to back them up — so it survives the first serious look.
Fractional vCISO
Security leadership for companies that just got asked to prove it.
Compliance and security programs built to hold up when a customer, an auditor, or a regulator looks closely.
- CISSP
- CISA
- GSLC
- CISO and vCISO
- USMC veteran
- 29 years in the field
01 — Services
What I'm usually called in for
Three situations account for most engagements. If yours looks like one of these, we should talk.
A deal blocked by a security review
An enterprise customer sent a questionnaire and the answers aren't there yet. I organize the evidence, answer what's answerable, and close the gaps that are holding up signature.
Security leadership you can't yet hire
You need someone accountable for the security program without carrying a full-time executive. Ongoing advisory on retainer — roadmap, vendor risk, board and customer reporting.
02 — Process
How engagements work
No open-ended hourly arrangements. Scope and price are agreed before work starts.
01
Discovery call
Thirty minutes. What's driving the deadline, what's already in place, and what you're actually obligated to do — which is often narrower than you've been told.
02
Written scope of work
A fixed fee against defined deliverables, each with a stated completion standard. You know what you're getting and what it costs before anyone signs.
03
Built, documented, handed over
The program is yours to run when I'm done — editable policies, a live risk register, and a compliance calendar. Retainer support afterward is optional, not assumed.
Every engagement is scoped and priced to what the situation actually requires. Retainers are scoped separately.
03 — Background
Who you'd be working with
I'm Jason Hamilton. I've spent nearly thirty years in security leadership across financial services, healthcare, technology, and defense — building and running programs in regulated environments where the work has to hold up under outside scrutiny.
Most of my work is with small and mid-sized companies facing a requirement they haven't had to meet before. They rarely need a scaled-down enterprise program. They need the parts that carry real weight, documented well enough to defend, and nothing they'll never use.
I've worked across the major regulatory and security frameworks. Whatever standard is in front of you, the conversation starts the same way: what are you actually obligated to do, and what will it take to prove it.
04 — Guides
Start smaller
Not ready for an engagement? The same guidance, written down for you to work through yourself.
SMB Cybersecurity Guide
Forty pages on where to start when nobody in the building owns security yet.
$27Small Business Compliance Playbook
167 pages. The full program, structured so you can build it without me.
$297You've Been Breached Bundle
What to do in the first 48 hours, and who to call in what order.
$27
Next step
Ready to talk?
Thirty minutes, no pitch. Bring your deadline and whatever you've got so far, and we'll scope it honestly.