vCISO — Virtual CISO & Security Leadership as a Service — Saudi Arabia

Hiring a full-time Chief Information Security Officer in Saudi Arabia is expensive and slow — and most mid-market firms don't need one full-time. Skyline's virtual CISO (vCISO) service gives you that executive security leadership on a fractional, retainer basis: someone who owns your cyber strategy, talks to your board, and keeps your regulator-facing posture defensible.

This is leadership, not tooling. Your vCISO builds a prioritised security roadmap from a real maturity assessment, sets policy, runs your risk register, manages third-party and vendor risk, and translates technical exposure into business language your executives can act on. For regulated organisations, that includes structured readiness work toward the National Cybersecurity Authority Essential Cybersecurity Controls (NCA ECC), SAMA's cybersecurity framework for financial entities, ISO 27001, and PDPL/SDAIA data-protection obligations — aligning you for compliance, not claiming a certification you don't hold.

• Strategy & roadmap — a costed, sequenced security plan tied to your business risk, not a generic checklist.
• Governance & GRC — policies, risk register, steering committee cadence, and board-ready reporting.
• Regulatory readiness — gap assessment and remediation tracking for NCA ECC, SAMA CSF, ISO 27001 and PDPL.
• Programme oversight — direction of pen tests, vulnerability management, awareness and incident planning.
• Flexible engagement — a fixed monthly retainer of hours, scaling up before audits and back down afterward.

Whether you're a Riyadh fintech facing SAMA scrutiny, a Jeddah enterprise preparing for NCA ECC, or a fast-growing firm with no security owner at all, our vCISO engagement is vendor-neutral and SLA-backed — independent advice, not a push to buy one product.