Role focus, personal home screens, and a vCISO Workspace in the menu
Role focus, personal home screens, and a vCISO Workspace in the menu
Plans: every plan — role focus itself is free; some of what a role’s home links to (vCISO Workspace, ISO 27001, Privacy, CISO reports, Supply-chain security) is gated by plan the same way it already is elsewhere in AutoCISO. Where: user menu → My role focus; Dashboard → My home tab; sidebar → Access & Risk → vCISO Workspace.
Until now, every seat opened the same Statistics dashboard regardless of the job they do. This release adds a personal role focus — pick CTO, Security lead / CISO, CEO / Founder, Head of Operations / COO, Compliance officer, CIO / IT Director or Data Protection Officer, and AutoCISO builds a home tailored to that job, reorders the sidebar to match, and offers a one-minute guided tour. It also adds the vCISO Workspace to the main menu, and tightens two role checks around AI features.
What’s new
Pick a role focus for a tailored home
The first time you open the Dashboard, a card offers to tailor the console to your job. Pick one of seven roles, or keep the classic Statistics dashboard. Your choice adds a My home tab (subtitled “Tailored for {role}”), reorders the sidebar to put the group you use most first, and offers a short guided tour. Change it any time from My role focus in your user menu, or Tailor my home in the home tab’s header. See Choose your role focus for the full walkthrough.
This never changes permissions or hides anything. It only changes what’s shown first — the second sentence of the role picker dialog says so directly: “It never changes what you’re allowed to see or do.” Where a home would show something your plan or organization role doesn’t give you, a banner explains why (for example, “ISO 27001 is on The Growth”) instead of silently omitting it.
Notifications default to the tab your role checks first
Opening Notifications now opens on Critical for CTO, Security lead / CISO and CEO / Founder, and on Unread for Head of Operations / COO, Compliance officer, CIO / IT Director and Data Protection Officer. This is the default tab only — every notification is still there on every tab, for everyone, exactly as before.
vCISO Workspace is now in the menu
Access & Risk → vCISO Workspace brings together the Roadmap, Current State, Target State, Decisions and Monthly Summary pages that previously had no menu entry of their own. Monthly Summary is visible only to Owners and Managers. The item requires The Seed plan or higher — on Free, it shows locked with “Requires The Seed.” See vCISO Workspace.
AI-Suggested Options on a decision is now Owner/Manager only
Get AI Options on a vCISO decision — which generates the AI-Suggested Options list — now requires the Owner or Manager role, matching every other write action in the vCISO Workspace. A Member, Contributor or Auditor can no longer trigger it, by API or otherwise; the button is hidden for those roles in the console. This was previously open to any role with access to the page — no other vCISO behaviour changed.
AI CISO Assistant tools now follow your role, not just your plan
The AI CISO Assistant already limited which tools it could use to what your organization’s plan includes. It now also limits them to what your role is allowed to do: an Owner gets every plan-allowed tool, other roles get a narrower set that matches what they could do through the console directly, and the assistant never runs a tool it isn’t allowed to run — it simply doesn’t try. This changes no tool behaviour for Owners or Managers on any plan.
Known, accepted limitations
Role focus doesn’t retroactively simplify the classic dashboard
Statistics, Executive and Security Surface tabs are unchanged by this release — role focus adds My home alongside them rather than replacing them. If you prefer the classic view, choosing “Keep the Statistics dashboard” (or clicking Not now) leaves your Dashboard exactly as it was.
Existing users are offered the picker again only once, and only if they haven’t chosen
If you already dismissed the role picker (or chose to keep the Statistics dashboard) before this release, you’ll see it once more, worded “New role homes are available.” Choosing a role works the same as the first time; “Keep the Statistics dashboard” dismisses it for good. Anyone who had already picked a specific role keeps that choice and is not re-prompted.
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