How cyber advisors can scale up without hiring a large team

Growth often equals more manpower: adding customers typically means adding people, unless efficiency tools change the equation. Small advisory and consulting firms face unpredictable demand, limited hiring capacity, and risks tied to recruiting, all factors that can slow down growth. Advisors can plateau simply because traditional structures do not scale flexibly.

How to fix this, and scale up without adding headcount?

Automation as the multiplier: Cyberday’s built-in growth engine

One platform, multiple frameworks

Cyberday offers a broad and growing framework library that includes ISO 27001, NIS2, GDPR, DORA, IEC 62443, and more. There are now over 50 frameworks, including local content.

Once you implement a task for one framework, Cyberday automatically synchronizes the effort across all relevant overlapping frameworks, so you “do it once” and it applies everywhere.

Autopilot mode for risk management

Cyberday continually automates risk identification and prioritization. The “autopilot mode” identifies risks, links them to existing tasks, provides expert impact and likelihood assessments, and generates a prioritized risk list with minimal manual effort.

Read more: Step-by-step risk management process

Seamless management via partner portal

Partners benefit from a unified partner portal. You can quickly create trial accounts, oversee customer subscriptions, and jump between multiple customer environments, all from a single place. This centralized environment lets you monitor customer activity, compliance progress, and engagement thresholds efficiently. (All-in-one view available in September 2025.)

Automated reporting and communication

Cyberday reduces admin overhead with one-click, templated compliance reports, including policy snapshots, statements, legal descriptions, and more. This keeps clients updated without manual drafting.

By automating reporting, advisors can focus more on strategic work instead of administrative tasks, which helps scale the business without adding headcount. One consultant can manage a larger portfolio while maintaining high quality and lean operational costs.

Read more: Reporting

Practical, scalable scenarios

Scenario A: the solo consultant

One consultant can manage 8 to 10 customers on a retainer by working directly in each customer’s Cyberday environment. The built-in frameworks provide ready-to-use requirements, policies, and guidance, so there is no need to start from scratch for each customer.

Progress can be monitored at any time, and reports are produced directly from the system, reducing hours spent preparing documents manually. With the structure and documentation in place, the consultant can spend more time on customer discussions and planning the next improvements.

Scenario B: the vCISO

A virtual CISO can oversee the information security work of multiple customers at the same time using Cyberday. For each customer, the vCISO sets up the relevant frameworks, assigns responsibilities, and ensures all requirements are covered. They can check progress, review assurance information directly in the ISMS, and prepare reports during regular management reviews.

The vCISO can own tasks, create reports, assign elements, and make sure relevant guidelines for employees are shared. With an efficient tool like Cyberday, the vCISO can guide an inexperienced team through complex cybersecurity compliance work.

When frameworks are updated in Cyberday, the vCISO can apply the changes to each customer environment without recreating the work, keeping every ISMS aligned with the latest standards.

Why this works for advisors

This approach removes the need to create everything from scratch. Framework content, policies, and tasks are already prepared in Cyberday and can be adapted for each customer, which avoids duplicated effort. It also keeps everyone on the same page, because progress and requirements are visible in one place, allowing both the advisor and the customer to see where things stand at any moment.

With frameworks kept up to date and clear records maintained in one place, ongoing work becomes smoother, which makes it easier to build and maintain long-term customer relationships.

Read more about how to partner up with Cyberday here!