Fractional Consulting

A vCIO (Chief Information Officer) focuses on technology strategy and business alignment — roadmapping, budgeting, vendor management, and ensuring your IT investments serve your growth goals.

A vCISO (Chief Information Security Officer) focuses specifically on security leadership — risk management, compliance frameworks, security program development, and incident response. The two roles complement each other and are often deployed together. 

A full-time executive comes with significant overhead — salary, benefits, onboarding, and the risk that their expertise doesn't match your specific needs.

A fractional consultant brings the same caliber of strategic thinking on a flexible engagement model, scaled to the level of involvement your business actually requires.

Not every IT consulting service works the same way. However, you'll typically have a longer-term contract that includes a monthly meeting, regular executive reporting, and a more thorough annual assessment. 

Whether you're building a security program or advancing a mature one, Marco's tiered vCISO services will deliver the right level of leadership, guidance, and oversight for your needs. 

In the industry, 30–90 days is fairly common.

However, at Marco, we've leveraged our own technology to help our consultants get up to speed faster than a traditional consulting engagement. From there, your consultant builds familiarity over time as the partnership deepens. 

Often, yes. Many of our clients have capable IT staff who are strong on day-to-day execution but don't have the bandwidth or background for strategic planning, compliance, or executive-level reporting. A vCIO or vCISO gives that team a strategic layer — without displacing anyone. 

We work across manufacturing, healthcare, legal, financial services, education, professional services, and more.

Each engagement is tailored to the compliance requirements, risk profile, and operational context of the business — not applied from a generic template. 

Marco works across the frameworks most relevant to mid-market and regulated businesses — including NIST CSF, CIS Controls, CMMC, HIPAA, ISO 27001, NIST AI RMF, and PCI DSS. 

Your consultant can help you identify which ones matter most and build your program around them.

Yes, this is one of many areas of data security where we are actively monitoring evolving threats and adjusting recommendations quickly.

As organizations adopt generative AI tools, governance and risk management around those tools is becoming a compliance issue — not just an IT question.