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Clarify priorities, stakeholders, current controls, and material business and technology risks.
Cybersecurity Advisory for Financial Institutions
Security Leadership for Banks, Credit Unions, and Financial Institutions.
PLC ISO Services helps organizations strengthen cybersecurity governance, manage technology risk, prepare for assessments and audits, and modernize securely.
25+ YearsLeadership Experience
CISSPCertified Professional
Banking & FintechIndustry Experience
Practical security leadership where trust, resilience, and sound risk decisions matter.
PLC ISO Services provides experienced CISO- and CTO-level guidance for organizations seeking stronger security governance, more effective technology operations, and a practical path forward.
Services
Leadership-level cybersecurity and technology guidance.
Select a service below to view how PLC ISO Services can support your institution.
Virtual CISO Advisory
Executive cybersecurity leadership, risk prioritization, security roadmaps, and clear reporting for leadership and governing bodies.
Explore this service →Cybersecurity Governance
NIST-aligned governance, policies, control accountability, security metrics, risk registers, and program maturation.
Explore this service →Regulatory & Audit Readiness
Preparation for audits, assessments, examinations, customer due diligence, and evidence-based security reviews.
Explore this service →Third-Party Risk Management
Vendor due diligence, risk tiering, security assessments, control review, and ongoing oversight processes.
Explore this service →Cloud & Infrastructure Security
Secure modernization planning, cloud security, identity and access guidance, infrastructure resilience, and risk reduction.
Explore this service →IT Management & Technology Leadership
IT strategy, technology roadmaps, vendor oversight, service delivery, budgeting, cost optimization, and secure operations.
Explore this service →Incident & Resilience Planning
Incident response, business continuity, disaster recovery, tabletop exercises, and recovery-readiness planning.
Explore this service →Approach
A focused process built around business priorities.
Every engagement begins with context and leads to clear, workable next steps.
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Assess
Evaluate governance, policies, technology safeguards, vendor exposure, resilience, and readiness.
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Prioritize
Translate findings into a risk-based roadmap with practical sequencing, ownership, and visibility.
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Strengthen
Support progress, improve reporting, and help establish a durable security and technology program.
Service Details
Explore the support that fits your priorities.
Each engagement is tailored to your institution’s risk profile, business objectives, regulatory expectations, and current capabilities.
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Virtual CISO Advisory
Gain experienced cybersecurity leadership without the cost and commitment of a full-time executive hire. This service is designed for organizations that need objective strategic guidance, stronger security program direction, and clear executive-level communication.
- Security strategy, roadmap, and maturity planning
- Executive and governing-body reporting
- Risk prioritization and security program oversight
- Security leadership coaching and stakeholder alignment
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Cybersecurity Governance
Establish governance that makes cybersecurity responsibilities, controls, risk decisions, and reporting more consistent and actionable. The focus is on helping security support business objectives while maintaining appropriate accountability.
- NIST-aligned governance and control structures
- Security policies, standards, and procedures
- Risk registers, metrics, and leadership reporting
- Control ownership and program-maturity planning
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Regulatory & Audit Readiness
Prepare with confidence for audits, assessments, examinations, customer security reviews, and other evidence-based evaluations. PLC ISO Services helps identify documentation and control gaps before they become distractions or findings.
- Readiness assessments and gap analysis
- Control documentation and evidence organization
- Assessment and examination preparation
- Remediation planning and management reporting
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Third-Party Risk Management
Improve visibility and oversight of the technology providers, service partners, and other external relationships that affect your security posture. The goal is a practical, scalable process that supports sound vendor decisions.
- Vendor risk-tiering and due-diligence processes
- Security questionnaire and assessment review
- Contract-security and control considerations
- Ongoing oversight, issue tracking, and reporting
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Cloud & Infrastructure Security
Modernize with security and operational resilience in mind. This service provides guidance for cloud initiatives, infrastructure improvements, identity controls, and technology decisions that affect critical operations.
- Secure cloud-migration and modernization planning
- Identity, access, and privileged-access considerations
- Infrastructure resilience and control review
- Technology risk reduction and security integration
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IT Management & Technology Leadership
Strengthen the reliability, security, cost-effectiveness, and strategic alignment of day-to-day technology operations. This is executive-level IT leadership focused on outcomes, governance, and sustainable operations—not help-desk support.
- IT strategy, operating-model, and roadmap development
- Technology vendor management and performance accountability
- Budgeting, cost optimization, and lifecycle planning
- Service management, operations, and resilience improvement
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Incident & Resilience Planning
Help your organization prepare for disruptions and respond with clarity when incidents occur. Planning focuses on the people, decisions, communication, and technology capabilities needed to reduce impact and support recovery.
- Incident-response plans and escalation procedures
- Business continuity and disaster-recovery planning
- Tabletop exercises and response-readiness reviews
- Recovery priorities, lessons learned, and improvement planning
About PLC ISO Services
Experience that connects cybersecurity to business reality.
Patrick Criss, CISSP, is an enterprise technology and cybersecurity executive with more than 25 years of leadership experience across regional banking, financial technology, SaaS, and complex enterprise environments.
He has held executive CISO and CTO leadership responsibilities in a regulated financial-services environment, leading cybersecurity, technology modernization, cloud migration, business continuity, and cost-optimization initiatives. His work has supported critical systems, security governance, regulatory readiness, and secure growth.
His advisory experience includes NIST-aligned security programs, GLBA and PCI DSS considerations, third-party risk, cloud security, audit readiness, security awareness, incident preparedness, and executive reporting.
CISSP CertifiedAWS Security CredentialFinance Degree25+ Years of LeadershipBanking & Fintech Experience
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Discuss your cybersecurity, technology risk, governance, audit-readiness, vendor-risk, IT management, cloud-security, or resilience priorities.
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