vCISO / CISO as a Service
Executive security leadership on demand: strategy, prioritization, board reporting, and accountable ownership of the security program.
Governance, Risk and Compliance
Avencyx GRC
Security governance only matters when it changes outcomes. Avencyx GRC provides security leadership and governance that translates regulatory requirements into operational controls, evidence, and measurable resilience — without compliance theater.
For boards, CISOs, and GRC teams in regulated enterprises that must demonstrate real cyber resilience to regulators, auditors, and risk committees — not just complete documents.
What this service covers
Cybersecurity governance
Policies, roles, and decision structures designed to work in your real operations — budgets, legacy systems, and uptime constraints included.
NIS2, DORA, and CRA readiness
Gap assessment, phased transformation, and evidence production mapped to regulatory expectations, with traceability from requirement to control.
Assessments, audits, and risk management
Risk assessments, control validation, audit support, and resilience programs with prioritized, risk-driven remediation plans.
How we work
Baseline
Establish where you actually stand: assets, obligations, controls, and gaps — stated plainly, with explicit uncertainty where it exists.
Prioritize
Start with the highest-risk assets and failure modes. Design pragmatic controls that fit current operations rather than idealized programs.
Execute in phases
Staged improvements with measurable milestones, tracked through a rolling action item list with ownership, deadlines, and validation.
Evidence
Maturity progress and control operation documented in regulator-ready form, traceable to requirements.
What you can evidence
Every engagement is designed to leave you with outputs you can show — to your board, your auditors, and your regulators.
- A governance structure your organization can operate, not just document
- Regulator-ready reporting with traceability from requirement to control to evidence
- Maturity progress tracked from baseline to target
- Executive decision clarity: options, impact, and residual risk stated explicitly
Frequently asked questions
Does NIS2 apply to my organization in Romania?
If you operate in one of the sectors listed in GEO 155/2024 (Romania's NIS2 transposition) and generally have at least 50 employees or over EUR 10 million turnover, you are likely in scope — though that threshold is only a screening indicator, and some entities are covered regardless of size. The organization performs the applicability analysis and notifies the DNSC; the DNSC issues the formal identification decision. We perform and document that analysis as the first step of an engagement.
What does a NIS2 readiness engagement involve?
Typically: applicability analysis and DNSC registration support, a gap assessment against the required risk-management measures, the entity risk-level and maturity assessments, a phased risk-based remediation plan, incident-reporting readiness, and regulator-ready evidence — sequenced around the statutory deadlines rather than delivered as one document set.
What is a vCISO and when does it make sense?
A vCISO (virtual CISO) gives you executive security leadership on a fractional basis: strategy, prioritization, board reporting, and accountable ownership of the security program. It makes sense when you need senior direction and regulator-facing accountability but a full-time CISO is not justified yet — common for regulated mid-size organizations in Romania.
How is DORA different from NIS2?
DORA (Regulation (EU) 2022/2554) applies directly to financial entities — banks, insurers, investment firms, payment institutions, crypto-asset service providers — and has applied since 17 January 2025, with BNR and ASF as Romania's competent authorities. NIS2 (GEO 155/2024) covers the other critical sectors. For financial entities, DORA takes precedence on ICT risk and incident reporting; we support both regimes.
Is this compliance documentation, or something more?
Documentation is an output, not the goal. We build controls your organization can actually operate, then produce the evidence — assessments, reporting, traceability — that makes compliance defensible in front of auditors and the DNSC. We explicitly avoid checkbox compliance without operational substance.
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Ready to make resilience measurable?
Tell us where you stand and what you must prove. We will respond with a clear, evidence-led view of where to start.