Every enterprise customer reviews you before they buy. CAIQ, SIG and bespoke spreadsheets, a DPA and a request for your trust center land on your sales team. A virtual CISO takes over your security program, builds the trust center and a reusable answer library, and we answer questionnaires with you, instead of from scratch each time.
For B2B SaaS providers from start-up to established ISV
Before a business customer buys your software, their procurement vets you as a vendor. That review arrives on your sales team as a stack of requirements.
Typically that means a CAIQ, a SIG questionnaire or a bespoke Excel template with hundreds of security questions, plus a request for a signed DPA, for ISO 27001 or SOC 2 evidence, for a trust center, for a recent penetration-test report, for your sub-processor list and for answers on data residency and AI features.
Answering each questionnaire ad hoc ties up your best engineers and your founders, and deals stall in procurement for weeks or are lost. As you move upmarket the frequency rises, and without a reusable process the effort scales with every logo instead of with your team.
The fastest way to end this friction is not more technology, it is a repeatable process: set up cleanly once, then reused on every deal. That is exactly where we start, and we treat security as a sales accelerator, not a cost center.
You get an experienced, fractional CISO as a fixed point of contact, without filling an expensive full-time role. They run the program and make your sales fast.
Concretely, the vCISO takes over your security program and builds and maintains a public trust center that shows prospects your security posture before they even ask. They create a reusable answer library and templatise questionnaire responses, map your evidence (ISO 27001, SOC 2, penetration test, DPA, sub-processor list) to the matching questions and, where needed, join security calls with your customers.
This is governance and enablement, not 24/7 operations: we do not run an in-house security operations center or a round-the-clock managed incident-response service. We lead your program, prepare the evidence and enable your team to answer questions fast and consistently. Where you need live monitoring, we coordinate it with specialised providers, which keeps our advice independent.
We maintain the ongoing evidence, the record of processing activities, the measures and the sub-processor list in the Swiss Priverion Platform. So the proof behind a questionnaire answer is available as maintained tooling, not as a pile of scattered documents.
We collect what you already have: certificates, reports, policies, DPA and sub-processor list, and find the gaps that questionnaires keep exposing.
We set up a public trust center that shows your security posture, certificates, sub-processors and data residency, so many questions are never asked in the first place.
We draft reviewed standard answers for CAIQ, SIG and common questions, each referencing its evidence, so every answer is consistent and substantiated.
For each new questionnaire we draw from the library, add the deal-specific parts, curate with you and, where needed, join the security call with the customer.
A questionnaire is half technical and half legal. We cover both from one partner and treat security as a sales argument.
Your vCISO is an ISO 27001 Lead Auditor. They know what sits behind a questionnaire question and which evidence truly answers it, instead of just ticking a box.
The DPA, the sub-processor part and the AI questions need legal depth. With doctorate-level lawyers holding CIPP/E on the team, we answer the legal part on solid ground too, not just the technical one.
We invest once in the trust center and answer library. After that, each new questionnaire costs hours instead of days, and your engineers stay on the product, not in the spreadsheet.
We answer questionnaires in German, French and English, relevant for customers in Switzerland, the EU, the UK and the US. Because we do not sell an in-house SOC, our recommendations stay vendor-neutral.
We maintain the processing record, measures and sub-processor list in the Swiss Priverion Platform. When a customer asks, the proof is maintained and ready, not scattered across files.
On a security call with your customer, an experienced, credible CISO voice is at the table. That builds trust with the counterpart and takes pressure off your sales team and your founders.
Trust-center & questionnaire setup
Fixed fee
A one-off project that lays the foundation: inventory evidence, build the trust center, create the answer library.
vCISO retainer
Fixed fee per month
Ongoing fractional CISO who owns your program, maintains the trust center and answers questionnaires with you.
Security workshop
on request
A compact entry for sales and engineering: how vendor reviews work and how to answer questionnaires with routine.
Our tool: LexCommand
LexCommand is our in-house, citation-backed legal AI for the law of Switzerland, Germany, Austria and the EU. Developed and run sovereignly in Switzerland by Priverion GmbH, the company behind SIDD. We do not just preach data sovereignty and provability, we built them into our own tool, alongside the Priverion Platform.
The AI runs self-hosted on Swiss infrastructure, with no external cloud LLMs. As an independent Swiss company with no foreign parent, we process your documents in an environment we control.
Every legal statement traces back to a retrievable primary source, or it does not appear at all. That makes our recommendations auditable and verifiable, instead of merely sounding plausible.
LexCommand takes over searching, cross-checking and sourcing. That shortens turnaround times and frees our senior advisors for judgement and client dialogue, with no loss of diligence.
We look at data protection, information security and AI security on a shared source base with a framework crosswalk. So you see overlapping obligations in one consolidated picture, instead of three isolated analyses.
For your security questionnaires, concretely: LexCommand reads an uploaded CAIQ, SIG or bespoke Excel template question by question and proposes sourced answers from your answer library, every legal point on the DPA, sub-processors or data residency tied to its primary source, so you only curate instead of writing from scratch.
Temporally deterministic (as of today or any reference date), with jurisdiction isolation (CH/DE/AT/EU) and a citation verifier at the end of every answer.
Yes. We build the reusable answer library and answer and curate the questionnaires with you. For each incoming CAIQ, SIG or bespoke customer form we draw from the library, add the deal-specific parts and align the final answers with you. So you keep the subject-matter authority while the effort sits with us.
No. We deliver governance, enablement and assessment, not 24/7 operations. We do not run an in-house security operations center or a round-the-clock managed incident-response service. Where you need live monitoring, we coordinate it with specialised providers, which keeps our advice independent.
No. We start with what you have, and the trust center and answer library work even without a finished certificate. Once a certification makes sense, we support the ISO 27001 preparation and SOC 2 readiness and map the resulting evidence straight to the questionnaire questions.
As soon as the trust center is live and the first version of the answer library exists, the handling time per questionnaire drops sharply, often from days to hours. With every further deal the library grows, and the effort per answer keeps falling.
Yes. We answer questionnaires and run security calls in German, French and English. That matters when you sell to customers in Switzerland, the EU, the UK and the US.
The evidence a questionnaire most often targets:
Certification-ready ISMS and SOC 2 readiness, the strongest evidence in the questionnaire.
A recent pentest report to OWASP/PTES that enterprise customers routinely request.
A signature-ready DPA, sub-processor list and data-transfer answers for procurement.
We assess your evidence and your current questionnaire effort and show how a trust center, answer library and vCISO accelerate your deals.