Scott Chille

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        FIELD CISO · FORMER CISO
      

Field notes from
700 organizations.

Built for MSP and MSSP security leaders, and the mid-market IT teams they defend. Fewer surprises, less theater, and a next step you can actually take on Monday.

Most security advice comes from one person defending one company. I started as CISO of a 75-bed regional hospital before running the same role at portfolio scale for a national MSP, across healthcare, finance, government, and manufacturing.

        vCISO · Incident Response · Detection Engineering · SIEM/SOAR · CISSP, 11 GIAC certifications, and CDPSE
      

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2026 Global InfoSec Award: CISO Pioneer

17+

Years in cybersecurity · 30+ in IT overall

100+

vCISO / SecOps clients led

600+

MSP customers under IR coverage

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Certifications: CISSP + GIAC

FIELD GUIDES → See all Field Guides →

A few places to start

FIELD NOTES

Eighteen Incidents. One That Shouldn't Have Happened.

IDENTITY

They Didn't Hack In. They Logged In.

WORKFORCE STRATEGY

You Can't Hire Your Way Out of the AI Skills Gap

FIELD FRAMEWORK

HIPAA Security Risk Analysis Tool

FIELD FRAMEWORK

Cyber Insurance Alignment Tool

FIELD FRAMEWORK

AI Security Maturity Assessment

AGENTIC AI

Not Novel Attacks. Exploited Trust.

SOC METRICS

Confidence Is Not Confirmation

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01 · ABOUT

Nearly 30 years in I.T., 17 building and running security programs.

I was CISO and Director of Security Operations for Visual Edge IT, a large MSP, where I managed internal SecOps and led a team delivering vCISO and SecOps services to 100+ paying clients, plus incident response coverage across 600+ managed-services customers without a standing security agreement.

Today I'm a Sr. Sales Engineer at SilverSky. Independently, I work as a Field CISO and cybersecurity consultant, across offensive security, defensive operations, incident response, compliance, and governance, at both the strategic and technical leadership level.

Strategic

vCISO program maturity & scalability
Multi-industry risk management frameworks
MSP vendor / supply-chain risk
Board-level risk communication
Regulatory strategy: HIPAA, PCI-DSS, CMMC, state privacy law

Technical Leadership

Detection engineering & threat hunting at scale
SIEM / SOAR / EDR integration & orchestration
IR playbooks & tabletop exercises
Purple team & adversary emulation
Threat intel operationalization, forensics & malware analysis

Certifications

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Cyber Pulse Issue 08

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Issue 08: A CVSS 10.0 Entra ID flaw, a 500-victim ransomware advisory, and a credential-theft campaign, all aimed at logins, not networks. →

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SIGNATURE FRAMEWORKS

Original methodology, not a rebranded checklist

The Ownership Ladder: five stages from Reactive to Board-Integrated

The Human Attack Surface Index: score your workforce exposure across five dimensions

02 · WRITING

Field notes & perspectives

New pieces added regularly

IDENTITY · Aug 21, 2026

They Didn't Hack In. They Logged In.

AI-generated phishing, voice-cloned helpdesk calls, and stolen sessions that walk right past MFA: how attackers are actually getting in right now.

FIELD FRAMEWORK · Jul 25, 2026

The Ownership Ladder

Five stages, from Reactive to Board-Integrated, built from running vCISO and MDR programs across 100+ organizations. Find your rung, honestly.

HIPAA · Jul 24, 2026

HIPAA Security Risk Analysis Tool

A guided, step-by-step Security Risk Analysis built to the actual HIPAA Security Rule requirement, not a checkbox exercise.

CYBER INSURANCE · Jul 24, 2026

Cyber Insurance Alignment Tool

Carriers are tightening underwriting requirements. Check your controls against what they actually ask for before renewal, not during it.

AI SECURITY · Jul 22, 2026

AI Security Maturity Assessment

Score your own program across Protect, Utilize, and Govern: a live, interactive self-assessment, not just a framework to read about.

AGENTIC AI · Jul 22, 2026

Not Novel Attacks. Not Zero-Days. Exploited Trust.

Eight of the ten OWASP Agentic Top 10 threats come down to identity and authorization failures. Mapped, with the defensive control for each.

SOC METRICS · Jul 22, 2026

Confidence Is Not Confirmation

93% of CISOs say they could prove their program is sound. Only 12% have tested it in the last quarter. Where AI automation is widening that gap.

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03 · CONTACT

Let's talk security.

Open to conversations on vCISO program design, MDR strategy, ransomware readiness, or speaking opportunities.

Email cyber@scottchille.com LinkedIn /in/scottchille SilverSky silversky.com

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