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Regulatory and Legal Compliance
Contract and Data Protection Agreement Review
Technical review of security exhibits, DPAs, SLAs, audit rights, and breach notice terms, confirming your controls meet what you have promised.
What it covers
The engagement in detail
Technical review of the security exhibits, data processing agreements, service level commitments, audit rights, and breach notification provisions in customer and vendor contracts, assessing whether the obligations are operationally achievable and whether current controls actually satisfy what has been promised.
Who it is for
Designed for growth-stage and venture-backed companies building the security program enterprise customers require; established organizations measuring and maturing an existing security program; and law firms, corporate legal departments, and the clients they advise.
What you receive
Deliverables from this engagement
- Contract technical review
- Obligation register
- Feasibility analysis
- Remediation recommendations
Terms
How an engagement works
Every engagement is scoped individually and conducted under a nondisclosure agreement and a master services agreement, beginning with a scoping conversation and a written statement of work that defines scope, deliverables, and sequence. The four steps this practice follows are set out in full on the Regulatory and Legal Compliance page.
- Meet a regulation or supervisory expectation
- Growth-Stage & Startup Companies
- Established Enterprises
- Law Firms and Legal Departments
Regulatory and Legal Compliance
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- Healthcare Regulatory AssessmentHIPAA Security Rule risk analysis and safeguard assessment, business associate review, and a remediation plan focused on the issues regulators cite most.Regulatory
- Government Contractor ComplianceReadiness for CMMC, NIST SP 800-171, DFARS, FedRAMP, StateRAMP, and TX-RAMP, including system security plans, POA&Ms, and authorization packages.Regulatory
Start with a confidential conversation
Thirty minutes on whether this is the right engagement for the question you have been asked, and what it would take to answer it.