Governance, Risk & Compliance
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The security leadership challenge
Each new regulatory requirement adds documentation, controls, and oversight obligations on top of already stretched programs. Boards want clear answers on cyber risk exposure. Cyber insurance carriers want evidence of governance. And customers demand SOC 2 reports before signing contracts. All the while, AI is driving unprecedented speed and complexity.
The internal expertise to navigate these dynamics is scarce, and a full-time CISO is out of budget for many organizations. What’s needed is the layer between executive ambition and operational security work.
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Exec-level security leadership sized to your business
OnX provides the strategic security leadership and governance expertise most organizations need but can’t justify hiring full-time. Our Governance, Risk & Compliance services bring together:
- Executive advisory with senior security leaders, including virtual CISOs, translating cyber risk into business language and governing the program with the rigor of a full-time hire.
- Assessments and roadmaps aligned to the standards your business is measured against, from NIST CSF and ISO 27001 to PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2, CMMC, and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework.
- Risk-based prioritization, with compliance and AI risk work that connects regulatory obligations to business risk.
- Tested governance through tabletop exercises and program reviews that surface gaps in policy, process, and escalation before an incident or audit exposes them.
This is the work that makes security investment defensible to your board, carrier, regulator, and customers.
Governance, Risk & Compliance capabilities
Tap into four capabilities that build a board-ready security program.
AI Risk Assessment
A strategic evaluation of how AI system, including LLMs, agents, and AI-integrated applications, fit into your governance and compliance posture.
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Compliance Risk Assessment
A structured evaluation of risks and strategic recommendations related to legal and regulatory obligations, such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2, GDPR, and industry-specific frameworks.
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Incident Response Tabletop
Facilitated exercises that stress-test your incident response plan against realistic scenarios like ransomware, business email compromise, third-party breach, and AI-related incident.
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Virtual CISO
Executive-level security leadership on a fractional basis to build holistic security programs, oversee policy and regulatory compliance, advise the board on cyber risk, and align security investment with business strategy.
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Advisory engagements
A CBTS advisory is a time-bound, fixed-fee engagement designed to give you a clear answer to a specific strategic question — fast.
Cloud Migration Assessment & Wave Planning
Best for: Organizations facing a migration or re-platforming decision (including Broadcom/VMware-driven moves) that want a sequenced, dependency-aware plan before committing budget or moving workloads.
You walk away with:
- Application inventory and dependency map across the migration scope
- Per-workload assessment of the right destination (public cloud, managed infrastructure, or stay-put) and the right approach (rehost, replatform, modernize, or retire)
- A wave-sequenced migration roadmap that orders the move from lower-risk proof workloads to complex interdependent systems
- A defensible total cost model comparing current-state spend against projected future-state spend
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What success looks like
Strengthening governance, risk, and compliance supports several key business outcomes.
Reduced risk
Identify and govern risk against your organization’s unique tolerance. Know which regulatory exposures matter most, which controls are working, and where leadership should focus next.
Cost optimization
Access executive-level security leadership and strategic advisory without the full-time price tag. A fractional vCISO and structured assessments deliver senior expertise at a meaningful fraction of the cost of building the function internally.
Operational excellence
Pass audits with evidence-ready reporting. Replace ad hoc compliance scrambling with a governance, repeatable program that satisfies auditors, carriers, customers, and the board and that matures year over year.
“The role of the CISO has evolved from primarily focusing on technical security controls to becoming a critical force in driving organizational culture and change.”

John Bruggeman
Consulting CISO, CBTS
Don’t take our word for it
“I love the creative, tailored solutions that are delivered in a consistent and reliable way while always doing what it takes to make things right.”
“My team at CBTS have been trusted partners for a long time. They provide excellent technical support and pre-sales work. Their breadth of knowledge and ability to bring in the right resources have helped us steer our technology into the future.”
“CBTS treats us like a partner and not just a customer. The technical expertise is next to none and the relationship management is some of the best I have experienced.”
Explore the full Cybersecurity portfolio
A connected set of services across the Prevent, Detect, Respond, and Assure lifecycle, designed to work together as your security program matures.
Security Strategy & Assessment
Evaluate where you stand, where you need to go, and how to get there.
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Vulnerability & Threat Management
From penetration testing and AI threat modeling to vulnerability scanning and patch management, ONX helps you reduce your attack surface.
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Managed Detection & Response
Get continuous monitoring backed by senior analysts who understand your environment, your business, and the threats most likely to target you.
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Incident Response & Recovery
ONX delivers incident response retainers, managed backup, and disaster recovery services that limit downtime, contain damage, and get your business back online quickly after an incident.
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Related insights
Frequently asked questions
Data governance is the system of policies, roles, and processes that determines how an organization manages, protects, and uses its data. It establishes ownership, defines data quality standards, sets access and privacy controls, and creates accountability for keeping data trustworthy.
AI systems are only as reliable as the data behind them. Governance ensures the data feeding AI models is accurate, well-defined, secure, and compliant, which reduces the risk of biased outputs, regulatory exposure, and decisions made on data the business doesn’t trust.
A practical framework defines data ownership and stewardship roles, quality standards and monitoring, access and privacy controls, regulatory and compliance requirements, and the tooling that supports cataloging, lineage, and policy enforcement. It is sized to the organization’s maturity and risk profile.
Master data management establishes a single, trusted version of the core entities a business runs on, such as customers, products, suppliers, and locations. It reconciles conflicting records across systems so reports, analytics, and AI models all reference the same definitions.
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Your board, regulators, customers, and cyber insurance carrier about your security program effectiveness. We help you answer with confidence.