Compliance & Risk Assessments
Audit evidence, not audit theatre.
Structured evaluation of security controls against regulatory requirements and industry standards.
Risk-based assessments provide detailed gap analysis, remediation roadmaps, and strategic recommendations to ensure compliance and measurable risk reduction. Coverage across HIPAA, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, SOC 2, and sector-specific frameworks.
- Gap analysis
- Control mapping (HIPAA · ISO 27001 · PCI · SOC 2)
- Remediation roadmap
- Board-ready risk scorecard
- Evidence repository template
- Unified control library across frameworks
- Evidence-automated controls with drift detection
- Board-ready risk scorecard in dollars
- Auditor-first documentation package
How the engagement runs. Phase by phase.
Scoping + framework selection
Applicable frameworks, boundaries, Type I vs. Type II.
Current-state assessment
Control walk-through, evidence sampling, interview key owners.
Gap analysis + risk ranking
Findings matrix, FAIR-quantified risks, remediation effort estimate.
Remediation roadmap
Sequenced plan with owners, due dates, dependencies, and evidence targets.
Remediation execution + evidence build
Direct support for closing gaps and building audit artifacts.
Audit-readiness review
Dry-run with an auditor's perspective, gap-closure of weak evidence.
What we actually use. No secrets.
Every tool earns its place. We publish our stack so your team can audit, review, and integrate with what we bring.
- DR Drata / Vanta / TugboatContinuous control monitoring and evidence automation
- ON OneTrust / LogicGateEnterprise risk register and control library management
- CUCustom control matricesCross-framework control consolidation (ISO ↔ SOC 2 ↔ PCI)
- OP OpenSCAP + NIST OSCALMachine-readable control state and evidence
- JIJira + Confluence governance templatesAudit-ready ticketing and documentation hygiene
- EVEvidence vault (SharePoint / S3-WORM)Immutable, versioned evidence with retention policy
- DAData-flow mapping (Mermaid + custom)Visual DFDs for HIPAA / GDPR / PCI
- RI Risk-quantification (FAIR)Dollar-value risk modeling for executive conversations
How we do the work. Not just what.
Single control library
We map your controls once, then apply them to every framework. One SOC 2 CC6.1 control can satisfy ISO A.9, PCI 7.1, and HIPAA §164.308(a)(4) simultaneously.
Evidence-first design
Every control is paired with its evidence source (log query, policy doc, screenshot, ticket) before the audit, not during.
Risk-based prioritization
We rank gaps by likelihood × impact, not by checklist completeness. 70% of your effort goes to the 10% of controls that matter.
FAIR-aligned quantification
For executives: translate compliance gaps into annualized loss expectancy in dollars. Moves the conversation from 'maybe' to decision.
Auditor-first documentation
Every artifact is structured the way auditors actually read them. Your first audit is smoother because we wrote it for the reader.
Continuous, not point-in-time
Controls are instrumented for drift detection. You don't discover failure the week of your renewal.
Real problems. Real fixes.
Anonymized incidents from actual engagements: what broke, why it mattered, and how we fixed it.
Client was chasing SOC 2 and ISO 27001 separately with two different consultants. 60% duplicate work.
Budget was exhausted before either audit. Controls were inconsistent across frameworks.
Built a unified control library mapped to both frameworks. 85 controls collapsed to 42 shared + 12 framework-specific. Delivered both audits in one cycle at 70% of the combined original cost.
Three-year-old ISO ISMS was theoretical. Policies existed, evidence didn't.
Surveillance audit in 6 weeks, and the first pull of control evidence returned empty for 40% of controls.
Triaged by audit-criticality, closed 25 evidence gaps in 3 weeks via log queries + ticket retrofit. Remaining 15 controls re-scoped or remediated before audit. Passed with 2 minor non-conformities.
HIPAA risk assessment flagged 140 findings. No way to fix them all before year-end.
Board demanded a defensible prioritization without security theatre.
Ran FAIR analysis on top 30 findings. Board approved a $1.2M prioritized plan targeting $11M of quantified annualized loss. Remaining findings documented with compensating controls and scheduled.
Control + evidence lifecycle
From framework requirement to auditor evidence.
Targets, not promises.
Can you do multiple frameworks at once?
Do you act as auditor?
What if we already have a GRC platform?
How do you handle risk acceptance?
Scope a compliance engagement.
30-minute scoping call. You'll talk to an operator, not a BDR.