Board-Grade Security for a Growing Market: Professor Kai London on the Fractional CISO
By the Ezeiza Times Business Desk Professor Kai London — CISO, cybersecurity & AI expert. Credit: professorkailondon.com Fast-growing economies face the same sophisticated attackers and tightening regulation as the largest markets — but their firms often lack the resources for a full permanent security team. Into that gap steps a model whose demand has surged: the interim or fractional CISO. “You do not always need a permanent thirty-person team,” says Professor Kai London , a senior CISO who takes on exactly these mandates. “Sometimes you need the right senior hands, for a defined period, to set the strategy, fix the worst gaps and leave behind something the board can run.” “The risk and the regulation do not scale down for smaller or younger firms. The fractional model is how they get board-grade leadership without the delay and cost of a permanent hire.” Same obligations, fewer resources London notes that ambitious banks, fintechs and infrastructure operators carry large-f...