Fractional Security Lead

A senior security lead a few days a month: owns the roadmap, talks to leadership and customers, and hands over to your hire.

A quarter in the chair

Pick a step, or let it play. Every line is what someone in the room actually says.

Join planning, leadership and incident calls.

CTOYou're in planning on Mondays, and on any incident call.

ATALAIAAnd I own the security backlog from today.

Leaves the roomIn planning, leadership and incident calls

What happens this quarter and why.

ATALAIAQ3: harden the pipeline, threat-model new features, hire the first AppSec engineer.

CTOThree things. I can defend three things.

Leaves the roomQ3: pipeline, threat models, first hire

Customers, auditors, board and partners.

SALESA bank partner sent a 200-question security review.

ATALAIAAnswered in two days, from the evidence we already keep.

Leaves the roomQuestionnaire answered in 2 days

Hire, onboard and step back.

CTOOur AppSec lead starts in May.

ATALAIAFour weeks side by side. Then the roadmap is theirs.

Leaves the roomHire starts, 4 weeks of overlap

A few days a month, spent where a lead is needed. The last column is the point: someone else takes the chair.

MONTH 1take the chair
- Join planning and incident calls
- Own the security backlog
- Walk the line
MONTH 2set the roadmap
- Q3 plan: three things
- Pipeline hardening starts
- Job spec for the first hire
MONTH 3represent security
- Customer questionnaires
- Board update
- Interview loop
THENhand over
- Four weeks side by side
- Roadmap handed over
- Step back