GRC & Compliance Readiness
We help you work out which requirements genuinely apply to your organization, build the registers, policies and evidence habits behind them, and track remediation until you are ready for external scrutiny.
Readiness work is consulting. It prepares you for an examination, certification audit or customer review carried out by an independent party. We do not issue certifications or audit opinions.
When this helps
Scope & deliverables
Establish what applies to you before buying tooling or writing policy.
A single source of truth linking risks, controls, owners and evidence.
Documents your team can actually follow, and the routine that produces evidence.
Third-party oversight and a plan that closes rather than accumulates.
A SOC 2 report is issued only by an independent CPA firm that performs an examination against the AICPA Trust Services Criteria; our role is readiness preparation and evidence discipline before that examination. ISO/IEC 27001 certification is issued by an accredited certification body after auditing your information security management system; we prepare the management system and evidence but cannot certify you. NIST publications such as the Cybersecurity Framework and SP 800-53 are voluntary guidance in most private-sector contexts and become mandatory only where a contract, regulator or sector rule imposes them. We will tell you plainly which of these applies to you and which does not.
How we work
Step 01
Review your contracts, sector, data and customer demands to establish which criteria you should target and in what scope.
Step 02
Compare current practice against the criteria, document evidence that already exists and rank the gaps.
Step 03
Stand up risk and control registers, draft or rewrite policies and assign owners with operating frequencies.
Step 04
Run the evidence calendar, review what is produced and correct controls that are not operating as written.
Step 05
Perform a readiness review, close remaining gaps and coordinate with your chosen auditor or certification body.
Working together
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FAQ
No. A SOC 2 report is issued by an independent CPA firm following an examination. We prepare you for it: scope, controls, policies, evidence and remediation. Keeping those roles separate is also what makes the report credible to your customers.
No. Certification is issued by an accredited certification body after it audits your management system. We help you build and operate that management system and prepare the evidence.
It depends on your starting point, scope and how quickly owners act. Organizations with documented processes often need a few months; those starting from scratch usually need longer, particularly because Type II style examinations require evidence across an observation period.
Not necessarily. Tooling helps once controls and owners exist, and wastes money before that. We will tell you when your registers and calendar are enough and when automation genuinely earns its cost.
Whatever your buyers, regulators or contracts actually require. Many technology companies are asked for SOC 2, international buyers often ask for ISO 27001, and some organizations only need to answer a customer questionnaire well. We assess applicability before recommending anything.
Yes. Once registers and evidence exist, questionnaire responses become straightforward, and we can prepare a reusable response set with accurate wording.
Keep Exploring
Tell us what your customers are asking for and we will map what applies, what is missing and what it takes to be ready.
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