Unclear accountability
Name the decision, accountable owner, evidence required, next action, and escalation path.
FRACTIONAL TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP / 3PSCLEAR DECISIONS.
CLEAR DECISIONS.
ACCOUNTABLE DELIVERY.
3PS brings executive technology and security guidance to decisions involving architecture, investment, vendors, recovery, and compliance readiness. Establish the evidence, tradeoffs, responsible owners, and work needed to carry the decision forward.
500+ customers served.
Backed by 100+ professionals and technical resources across our delivery network.
Connect the decision to evidence and an owner.
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Define the decision
Identify what must be decided, who has authority, the deadline, and the business effect of waiting.
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Collect the evidence
Review systems, vendors, costs, incidents, contracts, controls, logs, and business requirements relevant to the decision.
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Prioritize the risks
Separate urgent business consequences from technical noise and supplier preferences. Make uncertainty and tradeoffs explicit.
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Coordinate suppliers
Bring specific questions and evidence to support teams, account owners, and product specialists; record commitments and next actions.
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Coordinate compliance readiness
Scope relevant HIPAA, SOC 2, or CMMC readiness work, audit evidence, policy ownership, exceptions, and remediation tracking with the organization.
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Brief leadership and the board
Present status, recommendations, alternatives, cost considerations, open risk, and the next decision or checkpoint.
The engagement defines the leadership remit and decision authority. Framework readiness and evidence preparation are scoped services, not a certification, legal opinion, or guarantee of compliance.
Give difficult decisions a clear structure.
Vendor-led priorities
Evaluate supplier claims against business needs, existing systems, recovery requirements, and operating cost.
Security without a priority order
Connect exposure, identity, backup, endpoint, network, incident readiness, and compliance concerns to a ranked work plan.
Board and executive questions
Translate technical findings into business impact, controls, timing, investment choices, and residual risk.
THE WORK IN MOTION
Connect the strategy to the architecture.
A decision record you can use.
Decision log
Open decisions, options, tradeoffs, owners, dates, and required evidence.
Compliance-readiness record
Applicable framework requirements, evidence, policy owners, exceptions, and remediation progress within the agreed remit.
Executive or board brief
Security posture, business impact, open risks, investment decisions, and recommended controls in clear language.
Vendor action record
Claims, support cases, escalations, commitments, blockers, and the evidence needed for the next decision.
Delivery roadmap
Near-term priorities, including 30-, 60-, and 90-day planning where appropriate, connected to the longer-term technology roadmap and named owners.
Bring leadership into the continuing work.
vCIO and vCTO guidance
Connect architecture, budgets, vendors, modernization, project priorities, and roadmap execution around your internal team.
vCISO program leadership
Coordinate the security roadmap, readiness work, evidence, policies, risk decisions, and executive reporting.
A shared review picture
Review risk, recovery, vendor actions, roadmap progress, automation, compliance-readiness work, and investment priorities within the agreed monthly scope.
Security-stack governance
3PS Lock can connect the agreed tools and operating responsibilities to the leadership and security program.
Examples of continuing work. The agreement defines covered systems, deliverables, resources, working hours, reporting, and response commitments. Hardware, software, dedicated resources, and projects are included only when stated; Critical Response is separately priced.
LET’S DEFINE
THE NEXT MOVE.
Bring the objective, the environment, and what needs to change. We will connect the right disciplines around a defined engagement.
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