Fractional CISO

Reflexion; United States; À distance; USD 207 000 - 413 000; Temps partiel

Résumé du poste

Reflexion is seeking a highly skilled fractional CISO to lead the information-security attestations and risk program for an enterprise deal. This executive role focuses on validation, signing, and representation of security commitments.

You will work directly with the CEO and CTO to verify controls, coordinate audits, and guide SOC 2 readiness and ISO 27001 mappings in a remote, part-time engagement.

Qualifications

• Prior CISO / vCISO with enterprise vendor-risk experience
• Experience mapping ISO 27001 / NIST CSF and readiness for SOC 2
• Comfort signing SoAs and risk assessments and answering customer audits
• Technical proficiency in AWS + Cloudflare stack
• Knowledge of HIPAA applicability and GDPR obligations

Responsabilités

• Review and harden SoA and evidence package mapped to ISO 27001 / NIST CSF
• Sign risk assessments and be named security officer
• Join 2-3 customer security-diligence calls with CEO
• Verify controls with CTO and manage gap triage
• Scope SOC 2 Type I path if needed and manage auditor selection
• Scope and manage first external penetration test and triage findings
• Quarterly compliance calendar reviews and annual attestation support
• Incident readiness review of breach-notification runbook
• Advise on changes in deals that affect posture vs. negotiable items

Connaissances

Vendor-risk management

ISO 27001 mapping

NIST CSF mapping

SOC 2 readiness

Attestation & signing

Executive communication

Threat and risk assessment

Outils

AWS

Cloudflare

IAM

KMS

CloudTrail

Description du poste

Fractional CISO

This is a fully remote (work-from-home) position. Work from anywhere in the United States. Contract / fractional ~15-25 hrs in the first 60 days, then ~5-10 hrs per quarter

About Reflexion Reflexion Interactive Technologies builds neuro-cognitive and physiological sensing technology - vision-performance training and respiration-waveform sensing used by athletes, teams, and now a global consumer‑eyewear partner. We are a ~10-person, AWS-hosted company based in Lancaster, PA, closing enterprise partnerships that bring enterprise-grade vendor-security requirements with them.

The role

We are hiring a fractional CISO to be the accountable security executive behind our compliance program as we finalize a major enterprise deal. This is not a build-a-SOC, hire-a-team role: our application-layer security is strong (bcrypt, encrypted sessions, CSRF, parameterized SQL, strict CSP, MFA/RBAC, AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.2+), our compliance calendar and evidence pipeline are run day-to-day by an internal compliance system, and engineering is handled by our CTO. What we need is the credentialed human who signs, validates, and represents. You will work directly with the CEO (deal owner) and CTO (implementation owner). Our internal compliance agent drafts the documents, tracks the obligations register, and maintains the evidence locker - you review, correct, and put your name on what is true.

What you will do - first 60 days

• Review and harden our Statement of Applicability + evidence package (ISO 27001/NIST-mapped) responding to an enterprise customer's Information Security Addendum built largely from an existing, customer-reviewed evidence base.
• Sign the risk assessment and SoA as the named security officer; be the security contact enterprise vendor-risk teams can call.
• Sit on 2-3 customer security-diligence calls (enterprise vendor-risk / InfoSec reviewers) alongside the CEO.
• Validate what we attest against reality with the CTO (controls verification and gap triage: centralized logging, admin RBAC/audit trail, secrets management).
• Advise on a security-exception / compensating-controls request and, if required, scope a right-sized SOC 2 Type I path (RFQs prepared; you would manage auditor selection and the engagement).
• Scope and manage our first external penetration test (vendor shortlist ready) and own findings triage with the CTO.

Ongoing - a few hours a quarter

• Quarterly review of the compliance-calendar output (access reviews, risk-assessment refresh, training, phishing simulations, BC/DR and restore tests).
• Annual re-attestation support; named contact for customer audits under contractual audit rights.
• Incident readiness: review our breach-notification runbook (24-72h contractual clocks) and advise if an incident ever triggers it.
• Tell us when a new deal's requirements genuinely change our posture - versus when to negotiate them down.

What we are looking for

• Prior CISO / vCISO / security-lead experience at a company that sold to large enterprises - you have personally survived enterprise vendor-risk review (security questionnaires, information-security addenda, right-to-audit clauses) from the vendor side.
• Hands-on fluency with ISO 27001 / NIST CSF control mapping, SOC 2 (readiness through audit), and pragmatic compensating-controls / security-exception practice.
• Comfortable being the named, accountable individual - signing SoAs and risk assessments, taking customer calls, standing behind attestations.
• Technical enough to verify controls in an AWS + Cloudflare stack with the CTO (IAM, KMS, CloudTrail/logging, network posture) - you do not implement, but you cannot be bluffed.
• Working knowledge of HIPAA applicability analysis (we maintain a no-PHI / not-a-business‑associate posture and need it defended, not expanded) and GDPR-adjacent vendor obligations (we have EU counsel; you coordinate, not own).
• Plain-spoken, fast, allergic to compliance theater. You will be asked "is this actually required, or negotiable?" constantly - we want the honest answer.
• Bonus: consumer wellness / health‑adjacent data classification; EU AI Act awareness; prior work with AI‑assisted compliance tooling.

What this is not

Not full-time, and no conversion pressure - genuinely fractional.

Not a program‑build from zero: policies (v1.0), an evidence base, an obligations register, a DPA/SCC pack, and counsel relationships already exist.

Not an implementation role: engineering changes belong to the CTO; you verify and advise.

Engagement & compensation

Hourly contract (rate DOE) or an equivalent small monthly block. Front-loaded first 60 days (~15-25 hours), then ~5-10 hours per quarter. Direct line to the CEO and CTO. NDA required; the work references a Fortune‑Global‑500‑scale counterparty under confidentiality.