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For vCISO Practices

You set the strategy. We make it run.

The 24/7 SOC, the enterprise stack, the operational execution โ€” white-labeled under your brand.

Vijilan is the invisible backbone of the world’s most credible vCISO practices. Ourย 24/7 certified SOC, powered byย CrowdStrike Falcon, Cribl, Corelight, and a full enterprise security stack, operates entirely under your practice’s brand. Your clients see your expertise. You deliver it with Vijilan behind you.

About This Program

What is the Vijilan vCISO Partner Program?

The Vijilan vCISO Partner Program is a white-labeled managed security partnership built specifically for virtual CISO (vCISO) practices, fractional CISO consultancies, and independent cybersecurity advisors. Vijilan provides the operational infrastructure that vCISO practices need to deliver enterprise-grade security to their clients โ€” without building or maintaining it themselves.

Through this program, vCISO partners gain access to a 24/7 SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 certified Security Operations Center, the full CrowdStrike Falcon platform (including endpoint detection, identity protection, exposure management, and next-generation SIEM), Cribl data pipeline optimization, and Corelight open network detection and response โ€” all delivered and operated by Vijilan under the vCISO partner’s own brand.

The division of responsibility is clear: the vCISO practice owns strategy, governance, client relationships, board reporting, and compliance framework advisory. Vijilan owns 24/7 threat detection, active remediation, technology management, and security documentation. The client experiences one cohesive security program. Vijilan operates as the invisible backbone. vCISO partners can enroll clients with no minimum seat requirements, convert advisory engagements into predictable Monthly Recurring Revenue, and scale their practice without hiring analysts or licensing enterprise platforms independently.

The vCISO Dilemma

vCISOs are hired for strategic clarity โ€” board reporting, risk frameworks, compliance posture, security program design. But clients inevitably expect operational coverage too: incident response, continuous monitoring, and the enterprise-grade tooling that backs every recommendation you make. Staffing a full SOC or licensing a complete security stack yourself is neither practical nor profitable.

The Vijilan Model

Vijilan provides everything your vCISO practice needs to deliver on its promises โ€” a certified 24/7 SOC, the full CrowdStrike Falcon ecosystem, Cribl data optimization, Corelight network detection, and active remediation capabilities โ€” all operating under your brand. You retain the client relationship. We provide the execution infrastructure. Together, you deliver something neither of us could alone.

The Partnership Model

A clean division of labor. A unified client experience.

The most successful vCISO practices are built on a clear operating model: you own the strategy, the client relationship, and the advisory layer. Vijilan owns the infrastructure, the tooling, and the around-the-clock execution. Neither overlaps. Both are essential.

Your Practice Owns

Strategy, Governance & Client Trust

Vijilan Provides

Infrastructure, Execution & 24/7 Operations

“Your client sees one cohesive security program led by their trusted advisor. Behind it is the infrastructure of a world-class managed security operation โ€” and neither needs to know where one ends and the other begins.”

The Technology Stack

The Technology Stack Enterprise-grade tools your clients couldn't afford to license themselves.

Every technology in the Vijilan stack is an enterprise-class platform. As a Vijilan partner, your vCISO practice gets to put its name behind tooling that Fortune 500 security teams rely on โ€” without the licensing overhead, procurement complexity, or staffing requirements of running it yourself.

Primary Platform

CrowdStrike Falcon

The world's most deployed AI-native security platform. Vijilan operates Falcon across endpoint, identity, cloud, and SIEM โ€” giving your clients best-in-class coverage on every surface.

EDR / XDR

Identity Protection

Exposure Management

Cloud Security

Next-Gen SIEM

Threat Intelligence

Data Intelligence

Cribl

Vijilan's deep Cribl alliance means your clients' security data is optimized before it hits the SIEM โ€” reducing costs, reducing noise, and enriching every event with context that drives better detection.

Cribl Stream

Cribl Edge

Cribl Search

Cribl Lake

Data Routing

Agent Migration

Network Visibility

Corelight NDR

Open Network Detection and Response โ€” Corelight gives Vijilan's analysts deep network-level visibility that endpoint tooling alone cannot provide. No blind spots at the network layer.

Network Traffic Analysis

Threat Hunting

Zeek Integration

Encrypted Traffic

Lateral Movement

Detection & Response

ThreatRemediateโ„ข MDR

Vijilan's flagship managed service. When a threat is detected, our SOC doesn't send an alert โ€” they act. Active containment, isolation, and remediation, executed by certified analysts on your client's behalf.

Active Remediation

Threat Containment

Incident Response

<5 Min Response

24/7 Coverage

Monitoring & Advisory

ThreatRespondโ„ข

For clients with internal security capacity, ThreatRespond provides Vijilan SOC detection and expert guided response โ€” pairing Vijilan's visibility with the client's own remediation team.

Vendor-Agnostic MDR

Guided Remediation

Threat Hunting

SentinelOne

Microsoft Defender

Carbon Black

Compliance & Assurance

SOC 2 Type 2 ยท ISO 27001

Vijilan is independently certified. Every engagement, every piece of telemetry, and every analyst action runs through a SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 certified operation โ€” giving your vCISO practice and your clients defensible assurance.

HIPAA Ready

PCI DSS

CMMC

GDPR

Audit Documentation

NIST CSF Aligned

Also works alongside

Microsoft Defender

SentinelOne

Carbon Black

Palo Alto Networks

Fortinet

Okta

AWS Security Hub

Azure Sentinel

Splunk

ServiceNow

What You Unlock

What your practice gains the day you partner with Vijilan

Beyond the technology and the SOC, Vijilan gives your vCISO practice capabilities that take most organizations years and millions of dollars to build independently.

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Stop apologizing for not having around-the-clock coverage. Vijilan’s certified SOC operates as a white-labeled extension of your practice โ€” your client-facing communications, your escalation paths, your brand. Fully operational from day one of your partnership.

When you recommend CrowdStrike Falcon, Cribl, or Corelight to a client, you’re not just citing analyst reports. You’re backed by a partner who actively operates these platforms at scale. Your technology recommendations carry operational weight โ€” not just strategic opinion.

Every client you advise is a potential Vijilan managed services subscriber โ€” with your practice earning margin on every seat, every month. Transform one-time advisory engagements into predictable, compounding MRR without adding headcount or infrastructure.

Vijilan’s SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 certifications extend to the engagements we run on your behalf. Your clients get audit-ready documentation, compliance posture reporting, and framework alignment evidence โ€” making your vCISO program far more defensible at every audit.

Vijilan’s structured proactive security engagement gives your vCISO practice a ready-made service to lead new client conversations โ€” a scoped, expert-led assessment with zero platform cost to the client and real findings to anchor your first advisory engagement.

Take on more clients without the linear cost of adding analysts, licensing platforms, or managing infrastructure. Vijilan’s model is built to scale with your practice โ€” more clients means more margin, not more overhead. Your growth ceiling just got significantly higher.

$3M+

Estimated annual cost to build and staff an equivalent in-house SOC and technology stack

24/7

SOC coverage your clients receive from day one โ€” no ramp-up, no gaps, no excuses

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Vijilan SOC mean time to respond on active threats across all monitored environments

Zero

Minimums. No long-term commitments required to get started as a Vijilan vCISO partner

Building an equivalent operation independently โ€” a 24/7 SOC, enterprise Falcon licensing, Cribl implementation, Corelight deployment, and the team to run all of it โ€” is a multi-million dollar annual commitment. Most vCISO practices don’t have that budget. Their clients certainly don’t.

Vijilan delivers this infrastructure through a partner model that makes it accessible, profitable, and white-labeled. The question isn’t whether your practice can afford to partner with Vijilan. It’s whether you can afford not to.

What it actually costs to not have this.

The Business Case

Getting Started

Four steps from application to your first protected client.

Vijilan’s partner onboarding is built to be fast. Most vCISO partners are operational within one week of approval.

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1

Apply as a vCISO Partner

Submit your practice profile at partner.vijilan.com. Our channel team reviews and responds within one business day. No minimums. No long-term commitment required to start.

2

Complete Onboarding

Access the Vijilan Partner Portal โ€” pricing simulator, white-label templates, compliance documentation, sales playbooks, and your dedicated channel manager contact.

3

Run Your First ThreatAssessโ„ข

Use Vijilan's structured proactive assessment to open your first client engagement. Real findings. Zero platform cost to the client. A natural path to managed services.

4

Convert to Recurring MRR

Findings become a scoped ThreatRemediateโ„ข proposal. Your client gets ongoing protection. Your practice earns monthly margin. The model compounds from here.

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything vCISOs ask before partnering with Vijilan

Direct answers to the questions every virtual CISO practice has about building a managed security backbone โ€” without the sales pitch.

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Vijilan’s vCISO partner program gives virtual CISO practices access to a white-labeled 24/7 Security Operations Center, the full CrowdStrike Falcon platform, Cribl data pipeline technology, Corelight network detection, and active threat remediation โ€” all operating under the vCISO partner’s own brand. The vCISO retains the client relationship, strategic advisory, governance, and board reporting. Vijilan handles all operational security execution: monitoring, detection, active remediation, and compliance documentation.

Yes โ€” fully. All client-facing communications, escalation workflows, incident reports, and security documentation can be delivered under the vCISO partner’s brand. Vijilan operates as the invisible operational backbone. Your clients see a single, cohesive security program led by their trusted advisor. Vijilan’s name does not appear in client-facing materials unless the partner chooses to disclose the relationship.

Vijilan’s core stack includes: CrowdStrike Falcon (EDR, XDR, Identity Protection, Exposure Management, Next-Gen SIEM, Cloud Security, and Threat Intelligence), Cribl (Stream, Edge, Search, and Lake for data pipeline optimization and cost reduction), and Corelight (Open NDR for deep network-layer visibility). Vijilan also integrates with existing tools in a client’s environment โ€” including Microsoft Defender, SentinelOne, Carbon Black, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, Okta, AWS Security Hub, Azure Sentinel, and Splunk โ€” so vCISO partners do not need to rip and replace existing investments.

No. Vijilan does not require minimum seat counts, minimum revenue commitments, or long-term contracts to get started as a vCISO partner. Pricing is asset-based โ€” partners pay based on the number of endpoints, servers, users, and appliances covered across active client engagements. This means vCISO practices can start with a single client and scale at their own pace without committing to volume they haven’t yet sold.

vCISO partners earn recurring monthly margin on every client enrolled in Vijilan managed security services. Each client a vCISO advises is a potential managed services subscriber โ€” with the partner earning asset-based margin on a per-month basis. This model converts what might otherwise be a one-time advisory engagement into predictable Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) without the vCISO needing to hire analysts, license platforms, or build any infrastructure. More clients means more MRR, not more overhead.

Yes. Vijilan holds SOC 2 Type 2 certification (independently audited for security, availability, and confidentiality) and ISO 27001 certification. Vijilan provides audit-ready documentation and compliance posture reporting aligned to HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, CMMC, and NIST CSF. vCISO partners can use Vijilan’s certifications and documentation to support their clients’ own compliance requirements โ€” making the vCISO practice’s advisory far more defensible at audits and board reviews.

ThreatRemediateโ„ข is Vijilan’s fully active MDR service, powered by CrowdStrike Falcon. When a threat is detected, Vijilan’s SOC analysts take direct remediation action on the client’s environment โ€” containment, isolation, and removal โ€” with no intervention required from the client’s team. It is best suited for clients without dedicated internal security staff. ThreatRespondโ„ข is Vijilan’s guided MDR service: Vijilan’s SOC detects, triages, and investigates threats, then delivers remediation instructions to the client’s existing security team. It works alongside any existing endpoint tools (SentinelOne, Microsoft Defender, Carbon Black, and others) and is best for clients with some internal security capacity who want expert oversight without full outsourcing. vCISO partners can offer either service based on each client’s maturity and preference.

ThreatAssessโ„ข is Vijilan’s structured proactive security assessment service, powered by CrowdStrike’s Engagement Licensing Program (ELP). vCISO partners can deploy ThreatAssess to open new client conversations with a scoped, expert-led assessment โ€” including ransomware readiness assessments, identity and privileged access reviews, attack surface exposure mapping, active incident response, threat hunting sprints, and cloud security posture reviews. The CrowdStrike Falcon platform is available at zero cost to the end client during the assessment period. Real findings anchor the vCISO’s first advisory engagement and create a natural conversion path to ongoing ThreatRemediate managed services.

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Most vCISO partners are fully operational within one week of application approval. The onboarding process includes immediate access to the Vijilan Partner Portal โ€” which contains a pricing simulator, white-label templates, compliance documentation, sales playbooks, and persona-based discovery scripts โ€” along with assignment of a dedicated channel manager. Vijilan’s channel team typically responds to new partner applications within one business day. The first ThreatAssess engagement can be initiated within days of onboarding completion.

Vijilan is purpose-built to operate as the operational layer behind the vCISO’s strategic advisory โ€” not to replace it or compete with it. The vCISO retains all strategic functions: security program design, maturity roadmapping, board and executive reporting, risk assessment, vendor selection, and direct client relationship management. Vijilan owns the execution layer: 24/7 monitoring, threat detection, active remediation, technology management, and audit documentation. From the client’s perspective, they have one trusted security advisor leading a comprehensive, world-class security program. Vijilan is never visible unless the partner chooses to disclose the relationship.

Apply Today

Your clients deserve world-class execution behind your strategy.

Vijilan partners with a select group of vCISO practices who are committed to delivering operational excellence alongside strategic advisory. If that’s the standard your practice holds, we want to talk.

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Already a Vijilan partner? Access the Partner Portal at partner.vijilan.com for your white-label templates, playbooks, and pricing simulator.

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