Cybersecurity Shouldn't Be a Collection of Disconnected Activities
Most growing companies are doing something about cybersecurity. They have tools. Their IT team or MSP handles security issues. They respond to customer questionnaires, renew cyber insurance, maintain policies, and address problems as they arise.
But who owns the whole picture?
Without experienced cybersecurity leadership, risks may not be clearly understood or prioritized. Customer requirements drive the next fire drill. Policies and controls may not reflect reality. And leadership has limited visibility into whether the company's most important risks are actually being managed.
NorthPoint provides the ownership, structure, and executive direction needed to bring those activities together into a coherent cybersecurity program.
Know Where You Stand. Know Where You're Going.
NorthPoint provides a clear progression from understanding your cybersecurity risks to building and maintaining a well-managed program.
01
Find the Path
Assessment
02
Make the Transformation
6 Months
03
Maintain Executive Control
Ongoing
Cybersecurity Risk & Roadmap Assessment
We assess where your cybersecurity program stands, determine where it needs to go, and turn the gaps into a prioritized executive roadmap.
NorthPoint calls this the Risk-to-Roadmap™ Framework:
- Discover
- Assess
- Define
- Prioritize
- Roadmap
- Align
Six-Month Fractional CISO Engagement
NorthPoint provides the executive leadership to turn that roadmap into measurable progress while your existing IT team, MSP, and specialists perform the technical work.
Our Course-to-Control™ Framework establishes priorities, directs execution, verifies results, and resets the course every 90 days
Ongoing vCISO Leadership
Once the initial transformation is complete, ongoing vCISO leadership keeps the program aligned as the business around it evolves.
Stays aligned as these change
- Customer requirements
- Technology
- Risks
- Business priorities
Experienced Leadership Behind NorthPoint
NorthPoint founder Paul Scott brings more than 30 years of technology and cybersecurity leadership experience, including building an information security management program from the ground up that achieved ISO 27001 certification and supporting the demanding cybersecurity and data-protection requirements of large enterprise customers.
Paul is CISSP-certified with a master's degree in cybersecurity and has led technology, cybersecurity, risk management, data protection, and technology transformation in data-intensive professional services environments.
30+ Years
Technology & Cybersecurity Leadership
CISSP + Master's
Technology & Cybersecurity Leadership
ISO 27001
Technology & Cybersecurity Leadership
Enterprise Experience
Technology & Cybersecurity Leadership
Is NorthPoint Right for Your Organization?
NorthPoint is designed for growing companies where cybersecurity has become a business issue, but adding a full-time CISO doesn't yet make sense.
You may be a good fit if:
Enterprise customers are raising the bar with new security requirements, questionnaires, contract terms, or audits.
Cybersecurity lacks executive ownership even though you have capable IT resources or an MSP.
Security has become reactive, with the latest customer request, vulnerability, insurance renewal, or technology issue determining priorities.
Leadership lacks visibility into the company's most important cybersecurity risks and whether they're being appropriately managed.
The business is changing through growth, AI adoption, cloud initiatives, modernization, or leadership changes.
You need experienced leadership, not another tool.
Data-Intensive B2B Professional Services | 75–300 Employees | Enterprise Customers | Existing IT/MSP | No Full-Time CISO
Cybersecurity Leadership for Growing Professional Services Firms
Understand the risks that matter. Establish clear priorities. Put experienced leadership behind the program.
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