VIRTUAL CISO & COMPLIANCE ADVISORY

Security leadership for teams without a full-time CISO.

Wellmark Technologies acts as your information security function — setting direction, closing gaps, and carrying you through ISO and statutory certification without the cost of a permanent hire.

COMPLIANCE REGISTER STATUS
27001 ISMSInformation security management engaged
27701 PIMSPrivacy information management in progress
42001 AIMSAI management system in progress
22301 BCMSBusiness continuity management gap open
DPDPA 2023Digital Personal Data Protection Act gap open
01 — ADVISORY

What the vCISO service covers

One retained relationship, scoped to the size of your risk — not a fixed org chart. You get a named security lead, a working cadence, and the specific deliverables below as needed.

01

Virtual CISO retainer

Ongoing strategic ownership of your security posture — board and customer reporting, budget input, vendor risk decisions, and a direct line for incidents.

02

Gap assessment & roadmap

A current-state review against the standard you're targeting, scored against each control, with a sequenced roadmap and effort estimate to close what's open.

03

ISMS design & documentation

Policies, procedures, risk registers and records built to match how your team actually works, not templates copied from a generic pack.

04

Vulnerability assessment

Scheduled scanning and manual validation of your external and internal footprint, with findings ranked by exploitability and business impact.

05

Internal audit & certification readiness

A dry-run audit before your certification body arrives, so nonconformities are found and fixed on your terms, not theirs.

06

Awareness training & incident response

Staff training that matches your actual threat exposure, plus a tested incident response plan with clear roles and escalation paths.

02 — REGISTRY

Frameworks & regulation

Each engagement is scoped to a specific standard or law. Below is what each one governs, and who typically needs it.

ISO/IEC
27001
Information Security Management System
The base standard for managing information security risk through policy, controls, and continual improvement — the certification most customers and partners ask for first.
Best fit forSaaS vendors, outsourcers, and anyone handling client data under contract
ISO/IEC
27701
Privacy Information Management System
Extends 27001 with controls for processing personal data as a controller or processor — the practical way to demonstrate privacy governance alongside security.
Best fit forOrganisations already certified to 27001 that process personal data at scale
ISO/IEC
42001
AI Management System
Governance for organisations that build or deploy AI systems — risk assessment, data provenance, human oversight, and lifecycle controls for models in production.
Best fit forProduct teams shipping AI features to enterprise or regulated customers
ISO
22301
Business Continuity Management System
A tested plan for keeping critical operations running through outages, disasters, and supplier failure, with defined recovery time objectives.
Best fit forOperations-critical businesses, financial services, and infrastructure providers
DPDP
Act 2023
Digital Personal Data Protection Act
India's statutory framework for processing digital personal data — consent, purpose limitation, breach notification, and rights of the data principal.
Best fit forAny entity processing personal data of individuals in India, regardless of where it's based
03 — METHOD

How an engagement runs

The same six phases apply whether you're closing one gap or building an ISMS from nothing. Scope determines duration, not the sequence.

PHASE 1

Discover

Map assets, data flows, existing controls, and contractual obligations.

PHASE 2

Assess

Score current state against the target standard; run vulnerability assessment.

PHASE 3

Design

Write the policies, controls, and risk treatment plan the gaps require.

PHASE 4

Implement

Roll out controls with the team that owns them; track evidence as you go.

PHASE 5

Certify

Internal audit, management review, then support through the external audit.

PHASE 6

Monitor

Ongoing vCISO oversight, surveillance audits, and control review cycles.

04 — VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT

Finding what an attacker would find first

A standalone service or part of any framework engagement — recurring or one-off, scoped to your external perimeter, internal network, or application layer.

Methodology

01
Asset discovery Enumerate domains, IPs, endpoints, and services in scope.
02
Automated scanning Authenticated and unauthenticated scans across the discovered surface.
03
Manual validation Confirm exploitability by hand; discard false positives.
04
Risk scoring Rank findings by severity and actual business impact, not CVSS alone.
05
Remediation report & retest Fix guidance per finding, then a retest to confirm closure.

Severity is reported the way you'll act on it

Every finding is filed against one of four severity bands, so your engineering team can triage without translating a scoring rubric first.

CRITICAL
HIGH
MEDIUM
LOW

Findings feed directly into the risk register used for ISO 27001 and 27701 engagements, so a vulnerability assessment run for compliance also produces a certification-ready artefact.

05 — WHY WELLMARK

Built around the audit, not around us

Three commitments that shape every engagement, regardless of framework or company size.

COMMITMENT 01

One accountable lead

You get a named vCISO for the engagement, not a rotating pool of consultants relearning your environment.

COMMITMENT 02

Evidence as you go

Documentation and evidence are produced during implementation, not assembled in a scramble before the audit.

COMMITMENT 03

Scoped to your risk

We recommend the narrowest set of controls that genuinely reduces your risk and satisfies the standard — nothing added to pad the invoice.

Start with a readiness call.

Schedule-Thirty minutes to walk through your current posture, the framework you're targeting, and what a realistic timeline looks like.

PRIVACY POLICY

How we handle your information

Last updated: September 2026

What we collect

When you contact us through this site or by email, we collect the information you provide directly — name, company, email address, phone number, and anything you share about your compliance or security needs. We do not use tracking cookies or third-party analytics on this site.

How we use it

Information you share is used only to respond to your enquiry, scope a proposed engagement, and — where an engagement proceeds — to deliver the advisory, assessment, or audit-readiness work agreed with you. We do not sell or rent contact information to third parties.

Data during an engagement

Where an engagement requires access to client systems, policies, or records, that data is handled under a signed confidentiality agreement, retained only for the duration needed to deliver the work, and disposed of or returned at the client's instruction on completion.

Your rights

You may ask us at any time what information we hold about you, request a correction, or request deletion, consistent with our obligations under applicable law, including the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023. Send requests to the address below.

Contact for privacy requests

Wellmark Technologies, 305-Vihav Business Square | Nr. HCG Cancer Hospital | Sun Pharma Road Atladara | Vadodara | Gujarat 390012, India — privacy@wellmarktechnologies.com

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