Clients
International Banking and
Global CISO Experience
Nick Shevelyov is a cybersecurity operator with 15 years of technology risk management executive experience as a Chief Security Officer (CSO), Chief Privacy Officer (CPO), Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).
A published author and industry keynote speaker, he brings with him a network of elite cybersecurity specialists and practitioners to complement his advisory services.
“Nick has been a friend and industry colleague for many years. Starting from my time as Senior Director for Cybersecurity – National Security Council for the White House where he participated in our strategy development workshops, to the early days of StackRox as an investor and advisor, to present day Act Zero. He truly is a trusted partner and cybersecurity industry leader.”
“Nick helped ETZ build security into our product from the design phase. He also connected us with elite consulting services at friends and family discount rates. He has an amazing global network and these connections are critical for an early-stage startup. Since then, he has become a friend and trusted advisor to the company expanding his role to include raising capital. We hope to have him as a partner for many years to come.”
“I connected with Nick during the exciting ideation phase of our startup journey. He invested his time in regular meetings, where we discussed various pains and the ability to address them in an innovative way. With his invaluable support, as a product advisor and an investor, Kodem was marching forward. His profound expertise and extensive network have been instrumental in propelling our progress. I highly endorse his services to companies, regardless of their scale or objectives.”
“Nick did an amazing job rapidly and effectively improving our cybersecurity posture leveraging his breath of experience and expertise. What’s is particular impressive about our work with Nick is his ability to set out a strategic vision and get into the details to drive execution. He operates at both the executive level and as a hands-on practitioner. He is a trusted advisor, and we love working with him.”
Reducing Uncertainty, Managing Cybersecurity Risk with vCSO.ai
If the business of business…is business, then your technology should enable your business to add more value to more customers through more channels with more velocity. Your cybersecurity efforts should be protecting your technology to enable those business outcomes.
In today’s digital landscape, your biggest challenge isn’t just staying compliant—it’s reducing uncertainty and managing your cybersecurity “Value-at-Risk.” At vCSO.ai, we specialize in helping organizations like yours identify, assess, and minimize risk so you can confidently focus on growth.
Here’s how we help you reduce uncertainty and safeguard your business:
Internal Network Penetration Testing
What you can’t see can hurt you. We identify the blind spots in your internal network
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External Network Penetration Testing
The unknown is a threat. Our external network testing highlights vulnerabilities that could be exploited from the internet
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Web Application Penetration Testing
Web apps are the front door of your business. We make sure its locked down.
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Cybersecurity Compliance Assessment
Compliance is about reducing uncertainty. We help you navigate complex regulatory environments reducing the chance of costly breaches and regulatory penalties.
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Mobile Application Penetration Testing
If you are building mobile apps, we help you check if they are vulnerable.
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Red Alert Services
Your sensitive data may already have been leaked on dark web criminal networks. We discover that sensitive data and share with you a threat profile report on your business so that you can be better prepared.
Learn MoreCybersecurity Product Advisory
If your product is positioned as a tool, you will be commodified.
Your security product needs to help your customer, the CISO, sleep at night.
As Chief Security Officer for Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) from 2007-2021, the bank’s “Golden Age”, I have defended and responded to international crime and state attacks. As a security product buyer and implementer, my advice simplifies your buyer’s journey. From consideration to implementation, we help you stand-out and distinguish your company from the crowded marketplace, and advise on how to reduce complexity and cost of ownership.
On top of my primary mission to defend the bank’s people, assets, and interests, our biggest risk was to guard against cybersecurity “Island Hopping” campaigns; using our bank as a way to access funds and IP of approximately 80% of the VC and PE backed innovation companies in the world. Running the best cybersecurity team you never heard of, because we were successful in defending a high value target with hundreds of billions in “on balance sheet” assets, a global presence, processing billions of dollars in transactions.
SVB’s mission was (and still is) to “We help cybersecurity companies at all stages of growth with design partnerships, Go-to-Market / RevOps and Capital Partnerships”. My equally important role was to meet with our founder and CEOs to assess their value proposition and provide candid feedback. We would deep-dive into capability and capacity conversations with engineers and architects, work together on go-to-market strategies, total addressable market, and customer acquisition tactics. We beta tested fledgling technologies, and help them raise capital or extend a line of credit for warrants as the companies’ advocate, resulting in huge returns for the bank.
The benefits of cyber defense technologies go beyond risk mitigation. Financial benefits include quicker onboarding, asset inventory tracking, and time-to-value at scale. My market philosophy is to create cybersecurity value propositions with quantitatively oriented storytelling for win-win outcomes, our cybersecurity clients loved it. In many cases they were smart and turned my own logic on me and would share their value proposition to the bank. Using “addition through subtraction” I was able to simplify my technology stack while also deploying some of the most cutting-edge technologies to defend the bank.
Let us help you become more successful.
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Go-to-Market Strategy for
Cybersecurity Products
Refine your value proposition, find “product–market fit”, and tell your story that creates value beyond risk mitigation.
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Cybersecurity Product
and Marketing Advisory
Architecture and engineering review of your solution, competitive analysis and fit into existing cybersecurity environments, and avoiding implementation pit-falls.
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Cybersecurity Gap Assessment
and Advisory Services
Standards and best-practices gap assessment, enhancement roadmap, and long term advisory relationship with access to our network of specialists and solutions.
Cybersecurity Concerns: Why You Need a VCSO
Establish and maintain a robust information security products, services, and your posture to mitigate risks and safeguard the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the organization’s information.
Protect to enable
Taking a physician’s diagnostic approach, we analyze pre-existing technology debt, system and application vulnerabilities, data inventory and security posture management to assess your cybersecurity health.
Improve your probability of cybersecurity success outcomes
Is cybersecurity a chess game, or more like poker where we make probabilistic bets over a series of circumstances to improve our likelihood of success. We will leverage frameworks, to frame our work, customize appropriately based on your organization’s risk appetite, and build a plan that works.
Bolster regulatory compliance
Compliance is not security, and security is not compliance. Let’s build a program that is complementary of your cybersecurity needs, factoring regulatory requirements enhancing risk efficiency.
Security incident response
Every second counts. When security incidents occur, such as data breaches or system compromises, our disaster response partner, ActZero, least incident response efforts to minimize the impact and restore the organization’s systems and operations. They coordinate the investigation, containment, and recovery activities and work to prevent similar incidents in the future.
Foster a security-aware culture
vCSO promotes a culture of security awareness and accountability throughout the organization. They provide training and education programs to raise awareness about security risks, policies, and best practices among employees, encouraging them to actively participate in maintaining a secure environment.
Your Subscription Option
Discover the gateway to enhanced cybersecurity leadership with our vCISO services, offering a suite of advantages for your organization:
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Starter Package
Comprehensive NIST/ISO Cybersecurity Assessment. Dashboard gap remediation tracking. Security Analyst hours and availability. vCSO check-in and strategy guidance.
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Building a Security Program Package
Tier 2 plus cybersecurity and data privacy regulatory compliance governance risk and compliance preparation. vCSO leadership and Security Analyst support.
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Running a Full Security Program Package
Tier 3 Starter Package, plus cybersecurity technology roadmap implementation. vCSO engagement.
Addition Through Subtraction
We partner with cutting-edge cybersecurity and data privacy AI-native solutions to drive your risk costs down and reduce operational complexity at discounted rates.
