Interim CISO
Short-term senior security leadership during a CISO departure, audit event, or elevated threat period, focused on risk triage, incident readiness, control coverage, vendor rationalization, and board-ready dashboards.
Get senior cybersecurity leadership when your organization needs stability, board-ready communication, and defensible decisions without hiring a permanent executive immediately. Acting Chief Information Security Officer Services help boards, CEOs, legal teams, and risk leaders triage priorities, strengthen oversight, prepare for incidents, and turn complex cyber risk into clear business action.
Senior security leadership for transitions, board oversight, regulated environments, and urgent cyber risk decisions.
Short-term senior security leadership during a CISO departure, audit event, or elevated threat period, focused on risk triage, incident readiness, control coverage, vendor rationalization, and board-ready dashboards.
Ongoing part-time CISO leadership for organizations needing executive accountability, security strategy, risk roadmap ownership, board reporting, audit support, and program oversight without funding a full-time hire.
Remote CISO leadership covering security strategy, risk management, policy ownership, committee reporting, and program oversight for organizations that need senior guidance without an on-site executive.
Fractional security leadership for financial services, healthcare, retail, and similarly scrutinized organizations needing regulatory posture, examiner readiness, SEC disclosure alignment, and defensible director duty-of-care evidence.
CISO support for mid-market and growth-stage companies that have outgrown ad-hoc security ownership and need board-credible leadership, customer questionnaire readiness, and a prioritized security roadmap.
Independent advisory for an in-house CISO, including executive coaching, board communication support, audit preparation, strategy prioritization, and validation that reporting matches the actual security program.
The engagement begins by identifying the trigger: CISO departure, audit pressure, board concern, incident readiness, customer scrutiny, or regulatory exposure. This frames the authority, timeline, reporting cadence, and decisions the acting CISO must support.
Experience shaped through AWS, Fortune 100 retail, cybersecurity governance, and board-level advisory environments.
Practical cyber leadership built for boards, executives, and regulated decision environments.
Recognized cybersecurity credential supporting credible risk guidance, governance, and executive security accountability.
Plain-English reporting turns technical risk into decisions directors and executives can confidently defend.
Leadership experience across AWS and global brands informs pragmatic, scalable security execution.
Objective guidance helps validate priorities, reduce surprises, and clarify escalation before incidents occur.
Experienced cybersecurity advisor for boards and executive teams.
Board Advisor, Interim CISO/CIO/CDO, Fractional Executive
Tyson Martin helps boards and executive teams reduce technology and cyber risk without slowing business operations by clarifying decision rights, tightening governance, and building inspectable execution frameworks. He serves as a board advisor, director candidate, and steps in as interim or fractional CISO, CIO, or Chief Digital Officer when organizations need stability quickly. His background includes leading security and technology transformation across enterprise environments at AWS and global brands such as Home Depot and Best Buy. He brings particular expertise in helping Chicago-area organizations navigate the complex regulatory requirements across financial services, healthcare, and retail sectors. Tyson is an active contributor to the National Association of Corporate Directors, serves on the National Retail Federation CISO Executive Committee, contributes to the World Economic Forum's Centre for Cybersecurity, and served as ISC2 Richmond Board President. He holds CISSP certification and has completed executive programs at Carnegie Mellon University, Harvard Business School, MIT, and through leading technology companies including Google, Amazon, and Microsoft.
An acting CISO is a senior cybersecurity leader who temporarily assumes CISO responsibilities when an organization needs executive security leadership but does not yet have the right permanent structure in place. The role can include risk triage, board reporting, incident readiness, audit support, security roadmap ownership, and executive decision support during transitions, growth, incidents, or regulatory pressure.
Discuss your transition, board reporting, or risk stabilization needs.
Advanced cybersecurity leadership credential from ISC2.
Recognized global cybersecurity professional certification body.
Active contributor to director cyber governance education.
Share your current leadership gap, board reporting concern, audit pressure, or risk event. Tyson will help clarify the right acting CISO scope, cadence, and next steps.
For immediate assistance, feel free to give us a direct call at +1 (802) 430-9200. You can also send us a quick email at tyson.martin@gmail.com.
For immediate assistance, feel free to give us a direct call at +1 (802) 430-9200. You can also send us a quick email at tyson.martin@gmail.com.