Security leadership from someone who has commanded a crisis
The Virtual C-Suite's fractional chief security officer is Daniel Ramos, President of Lateralus Group and a 25-year FBI veteran who retired as Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the El Paso division, where he led the investigative and crisis response to the August 2019 Walmart attack. As vCSO he owns threat and risk assessment, workplace violence prevention, physical and personnel security, and crisis response planning for businesses, schools and places of worship.
What does a fractional chief security officer do?
A fractional CSO is the executive accountable for the safety of your people, sites and operations: assessing threats, writing and testing the plans, training staff, coordinating with law enforcement, and running the response when something happens. It covers physical security, workplace violence, executive protection and crisis management. Cybersecurity governance sits with the vCIO; the two seats work together on incident response.
vCSO vs vCISO: which do I need?
A vCISO covers information security only. A vCSO covers people, sites, threats and crisis response, and in our team coordinates with the vCIO on the cyber side. If your exposure is a data breach, start with the vCIO. If your exposure is an angry former employee, a public-facing site, a school, a congregation or a workforce that has never rehearsed an emergency, start here.
What Daniel handles
Who it is for
Employers with 25 or more people at a site, schools and youth organizations, faith communities, healthcare and retail with public exposure, government contractors with facility security requirements.
Who it is not for
Anyone looking for guard staffing or armed response contracts; we design and oversee, we do not staff posts.
Questions owners ask
Is this the same as a security consultant?
A consultant assesses once. A fractional CSO owns the program and is on the phone when the event happens.
Do you serve clients outside Texas?
Yes. Daniel is in El Paso; assessments are on site anywhere in the US, program management is remote, and Maryland/DC clients on an embedded retainer get [confirm number] scheduled in-person days a year.
What does a fractional CSO cost?
Pricing page; comparable vCISO benchmarks run $3,000 to $20,000 a month.
Can you help after an incident has already happened?
Yes. See incident and crisis response.
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