You are shipping new features at lightning speed, growing your user base, and scaling your infrastructure? But deep down, you know your AWS security is a blind spot.
As a startup founder, CTO, or IT manager, your primary focus is product velocity. You understand that AWS security compliance matters, but you simply do not have the time to audit every IAM role, inspect every VPC, and decode complex regulatory frameworks. If you are managing the cloud infrastructure yourself, you likely lack the continuous visibility required to know where your actual vulnerabilities are hiding.
You need enterprise-grade security leadership without the massive enterprise price tag. You need a clear path to compliance that actually enables sales rather than blocking them. And most importantly, you need to know exactly what risks to fix right now.
The Hidden Cost of Ignoring Your Cloud Security Posture
Many scaling teams operate under the dangerous assumption that simply being on AWS means they are secure. While AWS secures the data centers and the hardware, you are entirely responsible for what you build on top of it.
When your team is moving fast, temporary workarounds become permanent fixtures. A developer might grant wildcard permissions just to push a deployment through at 2 AM. An S3 bucket might be left slightly over-exposed to allow a third-party integration to function. These seemingly small decisions quietly erode your cloud security posture over time.
The result? Severe AWS misconfigurations that leave your customer data exposed. But the immediate business risk is often financial. When an enterprise client demands a SOC 2 report or an ISO 27001 certification before signing a lucrative contract, a weak security posture will instantly stall the deal. You are left scrambling to patch compliance gaps retroactively, pulling your best engineers off product development to answer security questionnaires.
You cannot afford to let preventable security issues slow your revenue growth.
Introducing Fractional CISO Support: Enterprise Expertise for Startups
Hiring a full-time Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is a massive financial commitment, often costing well over $200,000 annually. For most startups and SMBs, that is simply not a viable option. But doing nothing is no longer acceptable in today’s threat landscape.
That is why we created our Fractional CISO Support package. For just $499 a month, you get ongoing, senior security leadership tailored specifically for AWS-native teams.
You gain a part-time head of cloud security to review your risks, shape your architecture, and keep your business audit-ready. We provide the strategic direction of a full-time executive combined with the hands-on tactical guidance your engineering team desperately needs.
Pricing starts at $499 per month and scales based on the exact level of involvement and hours your team requires. We meet you where you are, providing exactly what you need to scale securely.
Exactly What You Get for $499 a Month
We do not just hand you a massive spreadsheet of generic security warnings and leave you to figure it out. Our offering is built entirely around actionable, high-impact guidance that fits into your existing engineering workflows.
When you partner with us for Fractional CISO support, here is exactly what you get:
1. Monthly Deep-Dive Security Reviews
Generic vulnerability scanners generate too much noise. We cut through the clutter. Every month, we perform a deep-dive review of your environment and deliver the top 3 security priorities for your next sprint. We tell your team exactly what matters most right now, ensuring you fix the critical issues without getting bogged down by low-level alerts.
2. Ongoing Guardrails for New Features
Security should never be a bottleneck for product development. We help you establish ongoing guardrails that integrate with your CI/CD pipeline. This ensures that as your team ships new features and infrastructure, those product changes do not introduce critical risk back into your environment.
3. Regular IAM, Networking, and Logging Reviews
AWS misconfigurations in identity and networking are the leading cause of cloud breaches. We conduct regular, highly targeted reviews of your IAM roles, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) configurations, security groups, and CloudTrail logging. Because these reviews are tuned specifically to your unique AWS environment, we catch the subtle permission drift that automated tools often miss.
4. Hands-On Remediation Guidance
Knowing a vulnerability exists is only half the battle. We provide your engineers with hands-on, practical guidance for remediation and infrastructure hardening. We focus on implementing “good enough” controls that make sense for your current stage of growth, rather than forcing enterprise-heavy processes that slow you down.
5. Audit Support and Questionnaire Assistance
When a massive prospect asks for proof of security, we have your back. You receive direct audit support, evidence gathering direction, and expert help answering complex security questionnaires. We help you demonstrate your maturity to clients so you can close deals faster.
6. Board-Level Risk Translation
Founders and board members need to understand risk in terms of business impact, not raw technical metrics. We provide executive-level translation of your cloud security posture, turning complex AWS data into plain English for confident, informed decision-making at the board level.
We Make AWS Security Compliance Part of the Package
If you are trying to sell to enterprise customers, healthcare providers, or financial institutions, compliance is not optional—it is a mandatory revenue driver.
However, mapping abstract regulatory frameworks to highly technical AWS configurations is incredibly complex. That is why we make compliance a core part of our Fractional CISO offering.
Whatever security framework you are going for, we have it covered.
Whether you need to achieve SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA, or PCI-DSS, we understand the exact AWS controls required to satisfy auditors. We help you identify your specific compliance gaps, design the necessary technical guardrails, and prepare the evidence you need to pass your audits seamlessly. We have the expertise to help you get there efficiently, all included as part of this incredible offering.
Total Visibility: Access to the AWS Security Dashboard
Fractional leadership is vastly more effective when both you and your advisors share the same real-time data. As a generous addition to this offering, your $499/month subscription includes full access to our proprietary AWS Security Dashboard.
You do not have to wait for our monthly deep-dive to see where you stand. You and your engineering team can log in at any time to get an immediate, comprehensive view of your environment. Track your compliance scores, monitor misconfigurations, and visualize your progress as you close critical security gaps.
We want you to see the value before you ever commit. We encourage you to check out our live, interactive demo dashboard right now at:
https://demo.acloudwizard.com/
Explore the interface, see how easily risks are categorized, and imagine having that level of clarity over your own infrastructure.
Actionable Discovery: Start with an AWS Security Audit
If you are not entirely sure what your current baseline is, we recommend taking advantage of our automated discovery tools. Before committing to ongoing fractional leadership, you need to know exactly how deep your current compliance gaps go.
You can utilize our free audit tool at https://acloudwizard.com/audit to instantly scan your environment. This initial AWS security audit is purely about discovery. It will immediately highlight your most glaring misconfigurations, giving you the concrete data you need to decide if our Fractional CISO support is the right next step for your business.
Claim Your Free 30-Minute Cloud Strategy Fit Session
You have built an incredible product. Do not let preventable AWS misconfigurations or a failed security audit derail your growth.
For $499 a month, you receive ongoing senior security leadership, active compliance framework support, hands-on remediation guidance, and total visibility through our customized dashboard. It is an unmatched offering designed specifically to give startups the enterprise credibility they need to win big deals.
Are you ready to stop guessing about your security and start building with absolute confidence?
Let’s talk about your infrastructure, your compliance goals, and how we can secure your environment. Please talk to us. We offer a 30-minute free call to discuss the offering and any other AWS security challenges you are facing.
What have you got to lose?
Take control of your cloud security today, before an incident forces you to.
You are shipping new features at lightning speed, growing your user base, and scaling your infrastructure? But deep down, you know your AWS security is a blind spot.
As a startup founder, CTO, or IT manager, your primary focus is product velocity. You understand that AWS security compliance matters, but you simply do not have the time to audit every IAM role, inspect every VPC, and decode complex regulatory frameworks. If you are managing the cloud infrastructure yourself, you likely lack the continuous visibility required to know where your actual vulnerabilities are hiding.
You need enterprise-grade security leadership without the massive enterprise price tag. You need a clear path to compliance that actually enables sales rather than blocking them. And most importantly, you need to know exactly what risks to fix right now.
The Hidden Cost of Ignoring Your Cloud Security Posture
Many scaling teams operate under the dangerous assumption that simply being on AWS means they are secure. While AWS secures the data centers and the hardware, you are entirely responsible for what you build on top of it.
When your team is moving fast, temporary workarounds become permanent fixtures. A developer might grant wildcard permissions just to push a deployment through at 2 AM. An S3 bucket might be left slightly over-exposed to allow a third-party integration to function. These seemingly small decisions quietly erode your cloud security posture over time.
The result? Severe AWS misconfigurations that leave your customer data exposed. But the immediate business risk is often financial. When an enterprise client demands a SOC 2 report or an ISO 27001 certification before signing a lucrative contract, a weak security posture will instantly stall the deal. You are left scrambling to patch compliance gaps retroactively, pulling your best engineers off product development to answer security questionnaires.
You cannot afford to let preventable security issues slow your revenue growth.
Introducing Fractional CISO Support: Enterprise Expertise for Startups
Hiring a full-time Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is a massive financial commitment, often costing well over $200,000 annually. For most startups and SMBs, that is simply not a viable option. But doing nothing is no longer acceptable in today’s threat landscape.
That is why we created our Fractional CISO Support package. For just $499 a month, you get ongoing, senior security leadership tailored specifically for AWS-native teams.
You gain a part-time head of cloud security to review your risks, shape your architecture, and keep your business audit-ready. We provide the strategic direction of a full-time executive combined with the hands-on tactical guidance your engineering team desperately needs.
Pricing starts at $499 per month and scales based on the exact level of involvement and hours your team requires. We meet you where you are, providing exactly what you need to scale securely.
Exactly What You Get for $499 a Month
We do not just hand you a massive spreadsheet of generic security warnings and leave you to figure it out. Our offering is built entirely around actionable, high-impact guidance that fits into your existing engineering workflows.
When you partner with us for Fractional CISO support, here is exactly what you get:
1. Monthly Deep-Dive Security Reviews
Generic vulnerability scanners generate too much noise. We cut through the clutter. Every month, we perform a deep-dive review of your environment and deliver the top 3 security priorities for your next sprint. We tell your team exactly what matters most right now, ensuring you fix the critical issues without getting bogged down by low-level alerts.
2. Ongoing Guardrails for New Features
Security should never be a bottleneck for product development. We help you establish ongoing guardrails that integrate with your CI/CD pipeline. This ensures that as your team ships new features and infrastructure, those product changes do not introduce critical risk back into your environment.
3. Regular IAM, Networking, and Logging Reviews
AWS misconfigurations in identity and networking are the leading cause of cloud breaches. We conduct regular, highly targeted reviews of your IAM roles, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) configurations, security groups, and CloudTrail logging. Because these reviews are tuned specifically to your unique AWS environment, we catch the subtle permission drift that automated tools often miss.
4. Hands-On Remediation Guidance
Knowing a vulnerability exists is only half the battle. We provide your engineers with hands-on, practical guidance for remediation and infrastructure hardening. We focus on implementing “good enough” controls that make sense for your current stage of growth, rather than forcing enterprise-heavy processes that slow you down.
5. Audit Support and Questionnaire Assistance
When a massive prospect asks for proof of security, we have your back. You receive direct audit support, evidence gathering direction, and expert help answering complex security questionnaires. We help you demonstrate your maturity to clients so you can close deals faster.
6. Board-Level Risk Translation
Founders and board members need to understand risk in terms of business impact, not raw technical metrics. We provide executive-level translation of your cloud security posture, turning complex AWS data into plain English for confident, informed decision-making at the board level.
We Make AWS Security Compliance Part of the Package
If you are trying to sell to enterprise customers, healthcare providers, or financial institutions, compliance is not optional—it is a mandatory revenue driver.
However, mapping abstract regulatory frameworks to highly technical AWS configurations is incredibly complex. That is why we make compliance a core part of our Fractional CISO offering.
Whatever security framework you are going for, we have it covered.
Whether you need to achieve SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA, or PCI-DSS, we understand the exact AWS controls required to satisfy auditors. We help you identify your specific compliance gaps, design the necessary technical guardrails, and prepare the evidence you need to pass your audits seamlessly. We have the expertise to help you get there efficiently, all included as part of this incredible offering.
Total Visibility: Access to the AWS Security Dashboard
Fractional leadership is vastly more effective when both you and your advisors share the same real-time data. As a generous addition to this offering, your $499/month subscription includes full access to our proprietary AWS Security Dashboard.
You do not have to wait for our monthly deep-dive to see where you stand. You and your engineering team can log in at any time to get an immediate, comprehensive view of your environment. Track your compliance scores, monitor misconfigurations, and visualize your progress as you close critical security gaps.
We want you to see the value before you ever commit. We encourage you to check out our live, interactive demo dashboard right now at:
https://demo.acloudwizard.com/
Explore the interface, see how easily risks are categorized, and imagine having that level of clarity over your own infrastructure.
Actionable Discovery: Start with an AWS Security Audit
If you are not entirely sure what your current baseline is, we recommend taking advantage of our automated discovery tools. Before committing to ongoing fractional leadership, you need to know exactly how deep your current compliance gaps go.
You can utilize our free audit tool at https://acloudwizard.com/audit to instantly scan your environment. This initial AWS security audit is purely about discovery. It will immediately highlight your most glaring misconfigurations, giving you the concrete data you need to decide if our Fractional CISO support is the right next step for your business.
Claim Your Free 30-Minute Cloud Strategy Fit Session
You have built an incredible product. Do not let preventable AWS misconfigurations or a failed security audit derail your growth.
For $499 a month, you receive ongoing senior security leadership, active compliance framework support, hands-on remediation guidance, and total visibility through our customized dashboard. It is an unmatched offering designed specifically to give startups the enterprise credibility they need to win big deals.
Are you ready to stop guessing about your security and start building with absolute confidence?
Let’s talk about your infrastructure, your compliance goals, and how we can secure your environment. Please talk to us. We offer a 30-minute free call to discuss the offering and any other AWS security challenges you are facing.
What have you got to lose?
Take control of your cloud security today, before an incident forces you to.
