Board Risk Advisor
Ongoing independent advisory for boards and executives, including plain-English cyber, AI, and technology risk reporting, CISO validation, regulatory monitoring, and between-meeting guidance.
Cybersecurity risk now reaches the boardroom, the deal room, and every executive decision involving technology, data, vendors, and AI. Tyson Martin helps boards, CEOs, CISOs, and risk leaders turn complex threats into plain-English priorities, defensible governance, and measurable action plans that reduce surprises without slowing the business.
Board-ready advisory, executive cyber leadership, and governance support for complex technology risk decisions.
Ongoing independent advisory for boards and executives, including plain-English cyber, AI, and technology risk reporting, CISO validation, regulatory monitoring, and between-meeting guidance.
A practical review of security maturity, control effectiveness, ownership, and spend alignment, resulting in board-ready metrics, prioritized remediation, and a twelve-month oversight cadence.
Short-term senior security leadership during departures, audits, incidents, or elevated threats, focused on stabilization, risk triage, incident readiness, dashboards, and prioritized execution.
Pre-close cyber assessment for acquisition targets, covering cloud posture, breach history, vendor risk, red flags, valuation impact, and post-close remediation planning.
Customized tabletop exercises, disclosure rehearsals, incident response readiness reviews, and recovery validation to help boards and executives act decisively during cyber events.
Board-level AI oversight frameworks, policies, risk registers, decision rights, and reporting that help organizations govern generative AI and enterprise AI adoption responsibly.
Effective cybersecurity advisory turns technical complexity into decisions leaders can inspect, fund, and defend. Tyson Martin helps boards, CEOs, risk leaders, and CISOs clarify governance, set priorities, validate reporting, and prepare for incidents, audits, transactions, and AI oversight. Engagements emphasize plain-English risk posture, stable metrics, clear decision rights, and 90-day plans with owners and measurable outcomes.
Experience shaped through security and technology transformation across AWS and major global retail brands.
Independent advisory built for leaders who need clarity, accountability, and defensible action.
Plain-English reporting replaces technical noise with decisions, exposure, trends, and accountability leaders can inspect.
Security and technology transformation experience across AWS and global brands informs practical recommendations.
Active NACD, NRF, WEF, and ISC2 involvement strengthens board-level risk perspective.
Every engagement emphasizes 90-day plans, named owners, measurable outcomes, and faster escalation.
Experienced board advisor and fractional executive for cyber risk.
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.
A cybersecurity advisory consultant helps leadership understand, prioritize, and govern cyber risk. For boards and executives, that means translating technical findings into business impact, decision rights, reporting cadence, remediation priorities, and evidence of oversight. Tyson Martin focuses on plain-English risk posture, stable metrics, incident readiness, AI governance, and execution plans leaders can inspect.
Discuss your board, CISO, governance, or incident-readiness priorities.
Recognized cybersecurity leadership and governance credential.
Board governance community focused on director excellence.
Global forum for cyber resilience and collaboration.
Share your governance, reporting, incident-readiness, or executive leadership challenge and Tyson Martin will help identify the right advisory path.
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.