Compliance & GRC
You don't need six compliance projects. You need one, done right.
SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, PCI, CMMC. Most of the work overlaps. We scope what you actually need, bring in specialists who've done your framework in your industry, and stay in the room as your independent advisor from kickoff through the audit and beyond.
How we run it
One relationship, and the right specialists behind it.
We're not a compliance factory and we're not the auditor. We're the independent advisor who scopes it right, assembles the specialists who do it best, and stays with you the whole way. You get the outcome without managing five vendors to get there.
We qualify it honestly
First we figure out what actually applies: which framework, Type I vs Type II, and what's really in scope. All before anyone spends a dollar. Often the ask is smaller than you feared.
We bring the right specialists
You get people who've done your framework, in your industry, many times over. A vetted bench matched to the work, not a generalist learning on your clock.
One point of continuity
You deal with one independent advisor who owns the outcome and holds every specialist to it, from kickoff through evidence to the audit, and after.
Independent, on your side
We don't sell the certificate or grade our own homework. So the advice on what you need, and what you don't, carries no product agenda behind it.
Do it once, prove it everywhere
Different frameworks, mostly the same controls.
Access, MFA, logging, policy, evidence. One well-run control set satisfies most of what every framework asks. We build it once and map it across the ones that apply to you, so you're not paying to solve the same problem five times.
SOC 2
The price of entry for enterprise deals. It ends in an independent CPA's opinion, and the goal is a favorable one, not a pass/fail. Type I shows controls are designed right today; Type II proves they've held over 3 to 12 months.
HIPAA
Federal law, not an opt-in. Touch PHI and you're on the hook. You prove it through ongoing risk assessment and documentation, not a certificate.
ISO 27001
The international standard enterprise buyers and global partners recognize. It's a formal ISMS (ISO/IEC 27001:2022) you certify against through an accredited registrar.
NIST CSF / 800-171
A common control backbone many other frameworks map back to. CSF 2.0 is the voluntary standard; 800-171 anchors federal and defense-supply-chain (CUI) requirements.
PCI DSS
Take cards and you're in scope: every location, every channel. v4.0.1 (mandatory since 2025) shifted PCI from an annual checkbox to continuous, evidence-backed security, right down to the scripts running on your own checkout page.
CMMC
For the DoD supply chain. Three levels built on NIST 800-171, with Level 2 needing a third-party (C3PAO) assessment. It's now phasing into contracts as a condition of award, with Level 2 required from late 2026.
For US firms with an overseas footprint
GDPR, NIS2 and DORA don't stop at the border.
If you sell into the EU or handle EU data, these reach you too. GDPR has applied to US companies since 2018; NIS2 (cybersecurity) and DORA (financial firms) now pull them in through EU operations and supply-chain contracts. We help you scope where you're actually exposed and bring specialists who focus on EU privacy and resilience law. A multinational footprint stays an advantage you keep, not a gap a bigger firm uses to take the account.
Questions you should ask anyone
Before you hire help, ask this. Here's how we answer.
A readiness partner is only useful if they can carry the whole thing. These are the questions worth asking any provider, ours included.
Can you guide the whole process end to end, or just a piece?
End to end. We scope it, run it, and stay in the room through the audit.
Do you build the policies and risk docs, or do we need them already?
The specialists we bring build them with you. You don't need them first.
Who does the technical testing: pen test, config, app review?
People who do it for a living, matched to your environment. Not a side gig.
Can you connect us to an assessor who already knows the work?
Yes. We coordinate the independent audit, and we don't grade our own homework.
If gaps are found, do you remediate, or are we on our own?
We remediate. Closing the gap is the real work, and the real value.
Do you stay involved after: re-cert, due diligence, the next client ask?
That's the whole point. The relationship doesn't end at the certificate.
Where compliance meets what's underneath
A gap on paper is a gap in real life.
Readiness work has a way of surfacing what a framework only hints at: flat networks, loose access, no monitoring, backups nobody has tested. Closing those isn't paperwork; it's segmentation, identity, MDR, and the network foundation underneath. That's exactly where our cybersecurity and network practices pick up. You end up more than audit-ready on paper. You're actually harder to hurt.
See how the security foundation carries it
For insurers, VC / PE & vendor-risk teams
A readiness partner you can safely refer, for one company or a whole portfolio.
If you evaluate books of business or portfolio companies, you keep finding the same gap: no SOC 2, no formal program, controls that won't survive due diligence. You need somewhere clean to send them. An independent, CISSP-led advisor is a safe referral: no product agenda, no reseller conflict, just the company getting ready with someone steady in the room. For VC / PE and insurers, the same program runs across the whole portfolio, at one standard, through one relationship.
Help they can trust
You give your customer an independent, CISSP-led advisor with no product to push. Real help getting ready, with no reseller conflict to explain.
Your whole book, one standard
Every company in your portfolio gets the same rigorous readiness bar, so they're all moving toward audit-ready, not just the ones already asking.
Your customer, in good hands
They're guided end to end and you're kept informed throughout. Your customer is taken care of, and the relationship stays yours.
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