vCISO & vCIO Consulting

Build compliance programs that scale with your business.

Ember Operations partners with growing organizations to implement, mature, and operationalize information security and IT governance — from first framework to audit-ready.

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Security leadership,
without the overhead.

Fractional executive expertise that embeds with your team — not a vendor that hands you a PDF and disappears.

Virtual CISO

Strategic security leadership aligned to your risk profile. Policy development, risk assessments, security roadmaps, and board-ready reporting — all without a full-time hire.

Virtual CIO

IT strategy and governance that keeps infrastructure decisions tied to business outcomes. Technology roadmaps, vendor management, and architecture guidance.

Compliance Programs

End-to-end compliance program design, implementation, and maturation. We build the controls, evidence collection, and operational rhythms that make audits predictable.

Audit Readiness

Gap assessments, evidence preparation, and auditor liaison. We get you from "where do we start" to a clean opinion — on timeline and without surprises.

Standards we implement and certify against.

Deep practitioner experience across the frameworks that matter most to your customers and regulators.

SOC 1
Financial reporting controls
(ICFR / SSAE 18)
SOC 2
Trust Services Criteria
Type I & Type II
ISO 27001
Information Security
Management System
ISO 42001
AI Management System
Governance & Risk

Operators, not advisors.

Ember Operations was founded on a simple premise: compliance programs fail when they're built by people who've never operated one.

We've sat in the seat — building security programs from scratch, managing audit cycles, standing up GRC tooling, writing policies that people actually follow, and presenting risk to boards and executives.

We bring that operating experience to every engagement. No generic templates. No checkbox exercises. Just practical, defensible programs designed to grow with your organization.

vCISO
Security Leadership
vCIO
IT Governance
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Frameworks Supported
AI
ISO 42001 Specialty

Ready to build something defensible?

Whether you're starting your first compliance program or maturing an existing one, we'd like to hear what you're working toward.

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