Every engagement follows a disciplined four-phase methodology. We scope precisely, execute thoroughly, and build programs designed to function independently after handoff.
We begin every engagement by understanding your regulatory landscape, your current compliance posture, and the specific audit or certification outcomes you need to achieve. No assumptions. No boilerplate scoping.
Identifying which frameworks, regulations, and contractual obligations apply to your specific organization, data types, and business relationships.
Evaluating your existing policies, procedures, controls, and technical architecture against applicable requirements. Not a questionnaire — a substantive review.
Control-by-control gap analysis against each applicable framework. Quantified severity scoring and prioritization based on regulatory risk and business impact.
Conversations with your engineering, product, security, legal, and executive teams to understand how compliance intersects with your actual operations.
Regulatory scope matrix, current-state maturity assessment, prioritized gap analysis report, and recommended engagement scope with timeline and resource estimates.
With discovery complete, we design the compliance program structure — governance frameworks, policy architectures, control mapping, and remediation roadmaps tailored to your organization's size, stage, and technical environment.
Organizational compliance structure, committee charters, roles and responsibilities, reporting cadences, and escalation procedures scaled to your team size.
Information security and privacy policy architecture — defining document hierarchy, ownership, review cycles, and approval workflows before a single policy is written.
Cross-framework control mapping that identifies overlap between HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2, and NIST — designing controls that satisfy multiple requirements simultaneously.
Phased implementation plan with prioritized timelines, effort estimates, dependency mapping, resource requirements, and clear ownership assignments for each remediation item.
Compliance governance framework, policy architecture document, cross-framework control mapping matrix, and phased remediation roadmap with timeline and milestones.
This is where programs move from design to reality. We write the policies, implement the controls, build the evidence collection systems, and operationalize the governance structures designed in Phase II.
Comprehensive policy and procedure drafting — tailored to your infrastructure, technology stack, and operational practices. Not templates. Working documents your team can actually follow.
Working with your engineering and operations teams to implement technical, administrative, and physical controls identified in the remediation roadmap.
Third-party risk management program operationalization — vendor inventory, risk tiering, due diligence workflows, and ongoing monitoring procedures.
Designing and implementing systematic evidence collection that integrates with your existing tools — ticketing systems, CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure logging.
Role-based compliance training development and deployment. New-hire onboarding, annual refresher programs, and specialized training for security and engineering teams.
Enterprise risk register construction with quantitative and qualitative scoring, treatment plans, risk owners, and integration into governance reporting workflows.
Complete policy library, implemented controls with evidence documentation, operational TPRM program, evidence collection system, training materials, and populated risk register.
Before your auditor arrives, we validate everything. Mock assessments, evidence package review, and assessor coordination — ensuring your program stands on its own under independent scrutiny.
Internal readiness evaluation simulating the rigor of an independent assessment. Identifying and remediating any remaining gaps before your assessor begins.
Organizing all compliance evidence into structured packages aligned to each framework's control requirements. Everything your assessor will request, pre-organized and validated.
Managing the assessment process — scheduling, evidence submission, walkthroughs, clarification requests, and management response drafting for any identified observations.
Knowledge transfer to your internal team. Documentation of all governance processes, evidence workflows, and maintenance procedures so your program operates without us.
Pre-audit readiness report, organized evidence packages, assessor coordination support, and comprehensive program maintenance documentation for independent operation.
A full compliance program build — from Discovery through Validation — typically spans 12 to 20 weeks depending on organizational complexity, framework scope, and certification timeline. Discrete engagements (gap analysis, policy development, audit preparation) can be scoped independently with shorter timelines. Every engagement begins with a complimentary assessment to determine the right scope for your situation.
Thirty minutes. We'll evaluate your current posture, identify your regulatory scope, and recommend the right engagement path.