A few days a month
For direction and a steady pair of eyesThe advisor joins your reviews on fixed days and is on call between them. The number of days can change each quarter.
Product cybersecurity
Fractional Product Security Advisor
A senior advisor who knows the CRA and IEC 62443, a few days a month, without a full-time hire.
Best forOEMs that need direction, not a whole programme: a product line to keep compliant, an audit coming, questions from customers and engineers.
Service overview
Senior judgement when you need it, not a head count
Not every company needs the full programme. Many have engineers who can build, a process that mostly works and a certificate to keep. What they lack is one person who has done it before and can say what matters and what does not.
A fractional advisor is that person: part of your team for a fixed number of days a month, on call between them. They set direction, review what your team produces, sit in the audit and answer the questions your customers and engineers ask. Some call it a fractional CISO for the product line; we call it an advisor, because that is the job.
Everything the advisor does goes into your documents and your tickets, so what was built stays with you when the engagement ends.
What the advisor does
- Direction on the CRA, RED DA, IEC 62443 and what your customers ask for
- Interim ownership of product cybersecurity until you assign or hire the owner
- Threat model for a product or a release
- A single policy, procedure or guide when that is all you need
- Review of documents and evidence before an audit, and support on the day
- Answers to customer security questionnaires and tender requirements
- SBOM, vulnerability handling and update process set-up
- Questions from your engineers, answered as they come up
Ways to engage
Three ways to have an advisor
Same people as our programmes, without the programme. Start small, scale up before an audit, stop when the need passes.
A bank of days
For an audit, a tender or a threat modelA block of days used when something comes up. No monthly commitment.
One task
For a single piece of workA fixed scope: one policy, one threat model, one audit day, one customer questionnaire.
What people ask us for
Threat model for one productA single policy or procedureReview before an auditAudit-day supportCustomer security questionnairesSBOM and vulnerability handling set-upInterim owner of product cybersecurityQuestions from your engineers
Our approach
Engagement methodology
The steps of the engagement, built around how your team already designs, builds and releases the product.
Step 01
Agree the ask
One conversation to settle what you need help with, how many days a month, and who on your side the advisor works with.
Step 02
Work inside your team
The advisor joins your reviews, reads your documents, sits in your audits and answers your questions, on the agreed days and on call between them.
Step 03
Leave it with you
Everything goes into your documents and your tickets. When you hire in-house or the need passes, you keep what was built.
Common questions
Frequently asked questions
Talk to RelyBlue
Ready to discuss Fractional Product Security Advisor?
An honest conversation about your product and the path to CRA compliance or IEC 62443 certification. No sales pressure, no fear tactics.
- You talk to a senior advisor, never a salesperson