One firm. Four practices. Both sides of the table.
Security leadership, buying power, people, and go-to-market from one firm. Every engagement runs through a senior operator who has held the seat. No juniors learning on your dime.
Book the 30-minute callStart from your side of the table.
The buy side of the firm is why the room trusts us: we hold the CISO seat, buy the tooling, and staff the teams.
What we cover, practice by practice.
Open each practice for the full offering: what is covered, how engagements run, who it is for, and what you leave with. The work speaks for itself; this is where we show what it covers.
Security leadership on demand, from a practicing CISO.
Who calls us
- Companies that need a security program and a leader accountable for it, without the full-time executive hire.
- Teams working toward SOC 2, ISO 27001, or HIPAA readiness.
- Boards and investors who want security reported in business terms.
What's covered
- CISO as a Service
- Fractional CISO and vCISO services
- Compliance readiness: SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA
- Board and investor reporting
- Tabletop exercises and incident response leadership
- Penetration testing, incident and breach response, and 24x7 managed SOC through vetted partners
We sit on the buyer's side of security deals every week. We bring that leverage to yours.
Who calls us
- Teams heading into a renewal they do not want to take at face value.
- Companies choosing new security tooling who want a second set of eyes that has bought it before.
- Stacks that grew tool by tool and now overlap.
What's covered
- Vendor strategy and selection
- Contract negotiation
- Stack consolidation
- Software resale and licensing, from endpoint and XDR to SOC and GRC tooling
- Renewal defense
One practice that designs, implements and runs security, and staffs the team around it. Sourced from the network that knows who is actually good.
Who calls us
- Security teams carrying an open seat they needed filled last quarter.
- Leaders who want a fractional specialist, not another full-time line on the budget.
- Companies hiring into security roles where a wrong pick is expensive.
What's covered
- Vetted security engineers and analysts
- Fractional specialists
- Cybersecurity staffing and contract-to-hire
- Team augmentation
- Executive search
- Candidate identity verification and hiring-fraud screening through vetted partners
Go-to-market built for cyber buyers, run from inside the buyer network.
Who calls us
- Security vendors whose pitch reads like an architecture doc.
- Founders who need pipeline, not another booth.
- VC and PE firms with security portfolios to move.
What's covered
- GTM strategy and segmentation
- Positioning and narrative
- Sales pitch and demo structure
- Analyst relations and industry commentary
- Events, executive dinners, and field programs
- Speaking engagements
- CISO and buyer introductions
- VC and PE portfolio advisory
Clean retainers. Clear scope.
Most work starts with a 30-minute fit call and a one-page proposal.
Virtual CISO retainers start at $5k/month on quarterly terms. Procurement and managed services are scoped on the call.
Book the 30-minute callAll four practices, in one PDF.
What each practice owns, what it costs, and how an engagement starts. Twelve pages, nothing to fill in.
Start with the call.
Bring your stage and your goals. Leave with a concrete path. Buying security or selling it, the first step is the same: a 30-minute call, a straight read on where you stand, and a one-page proposal.
Or write to help@alchemistcyber.com.