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CISO Security Advisor

Gives security leadership guidance: dollar-based risk, compliance sequencing, incident and board reporting.

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Repository
alirezarezvani/claude-skills
Stars
29,149
Licence
MIT
Files
6 files

What it does

Once installed, the agent answers security leadership questions the way a chief information security officer for a growing company would. It can estimate security risks in dollars (expected annual loss), suggest an order for pursuing compliance certifications such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR, outline incident response and board-level security reporting, and help justify security budgets. It also includes two Python helper scripts that build sample risk registers and compliance roadmaps.

Great for

  • Founders or small-company leaders who need a security plan without a full-time CISO
  • Security or IT staff preparing a budget case or board security update
  • Teams deciding which compliance framework to pursue first for enterprise sales

Skip it if

  • Hands-on technical hardening, penetration testing or live incident containment, since this is strategy guidance rather than an operational security tool (the skill is written as advisory frameworks)
  • Regulated legal or audit decisions, since timelines and costs are generic estimates in the reference files and should be checked with a qualified auditor or lawyer
  • Companies expecting numbers tailored to their own data, since the scripts are described as running with sample data

Try asking

  • “Help me build a risk register for our SaaS company and rank risks by expected annual loss.”
  • “We have an enterprise prospect asking for SOC 2. What should our compliance roadmap look like?”
  • “Draft a board-level security summary for this quarter, covering incidents and compliance status.”
  • “Walk me through an executive incident response plan for a suspected customer data leak.”
Step-by-step guide: how to use CISO Security AdvisorInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 6 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.

    ciso-advisor.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip ciso-advisor.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip ciso-advisor.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Give the agent your real figures (asset values, incident probabilities, budget) so the dollar estimates reflect your business rather than the sample data.
  • Treat the timelines and cost figures in the reference files as rough planning baselines and verify them with your auditor.
  • Ask for a specific output, such as a risk register, gap analysis, or board summary, to get the most structured result.

What's inside

  • references/compliance_roadmap.md
  • references/incident_response.md
  • references/security_strategy.md
  • scripts/compliance_tracker.py
  • scripts/risk_quantifier.py
  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from alirezarezvani/claude-skills under the MIT licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.