vCISO Retainer
Security leadership embedded in your compliance posture. Risk, policy, audit readiness, and board reporting on a fractional schedule that matches your audit calendar.
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Jaime Pauline
vCISO & Fractional CISO · Massachusetts
I built ShieldBrief — an AI-curated threat intelligence platform for CISOs and security teams, with CVE enrichment, IOC extraction, and MITRE ATT&CK mapping baked in. I also run a fractional security-leadership practice for commercial regulated industries across Massachusetts and beyond: pharma, public companies, healthtech, and fintech.
CISSP · 20+ years IT · 11+ years cybersecurity leadership · GxP, SOX, NIST, ISO experience
Practice
Risk & Compliance
Risk assessments and control documentation aligned to the frameworks your auditors actually run — NIST, ISO 27001, SOX 404, GxP. Audit-ready outputs, not security theater.
Learn more →IR & Resilience
Incident response plans, executive tabletops, and the documented chain of evidence your audit committee needs after an event — not just during one.
Learn more →Approach
"Most compliance failures aren't technical. They're failures of judgment, scoped wrong or sequenced wrong."
How an engagement works
- 01
Diagnose
Risk read against your relevant frameworks; quick-wins list with audit-cycle priority.
- 02
Build
Core policies, IR plan, TPRM process, control-owner assignments — the foundation that survives an audit.
- 03
Operate
Monthly security review cadence, audit-committee reporting cycle, control-evidence collection running ahead of audits.
"You want a CISO who's been in the room when an FDA auditor asked how change control got bypassed. I have."
Insights
Latest insights
Writing on vCISO practice, regulated-industry security, and audit readiness.
May 2, 2026
What an FDA auditor actually sees when they look at your security controls
When the auditor opens the change-control log, they're not looking for what you did. They're looking for what you didn't document.
May 2, 2026
The first 90 days: what a vCISO actually does in a regulated environment
Most fractional CISO content is written for SaaS startups. Regulated environments work differently — the cadence is the audit cycle, not the sprint.
Serving
Massachusetts service area
Based in Massachusetts, serving regulated mid-market companies across the Commonwealth and beyond.