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Certification Readiness
Security Program Baseline and Roadmap
Establish where your security program stands and what to fix first: a baseline assessment and a risk-prioritized roadmap aligned to your stack and goals.
What it covers
The engagement in detail
A structured evaluation of the current state of security governance, controls, processes, and tooling, measured against a selected framework and the company's actual operating model, product, and technology stack. The output is a prioritized roadmap sequenced by risk reduction, certification dependency, and revenue impact rather than by framework order.
Who it is for
Designed for growth-stage and venture-backed companies building the security program enterprise customers require, and established organizations measuring and maturing an existing security program.
What you receive
Deliverables from this engagement
- Current state assessment
- Gap register
- Prioritized multi-phase roadmap
- Executive summary
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 Certification Readiness page.
- Earn a certification or attestation
- Measure and reduce risk
- Establish governance and policy
- Growth-Stage & Startup Companies
- Established Enterprises
Certification Readiness
Other services in this practice
Reach a clean SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, or HITRUST report without the audit becoming the project.
- SOC 2 Readiness and AccelerationReach a clean SOC 2 Type I or Type II report faster, with readiness assessment, control design, evidence architecture, and auditor coordination through to the issued report.Certification
- ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 Implementation and Certification ReadinessISMS and PIMS implementation carried through certification: scope, risk assessment, statement of applicability, internal audit, and stage one and two support.Certification
- PCI DSS ReadinessPrepare for your PCI DSS assessment: cardholder data environment analysis, segmentation review, scope definition, gap assessment, and QSA or SAQ preparation.Certification
- HITRUST and Sector Certification ReadinessReadiness for HITRUST CSF and the other sector certifications your market requires, with control mapping, gap assessment, and a remediation plan.Certification
- Policy, Standard, and Procedure DevelopmentSecurity policies, standards, and procedures written for how your company actually operates, built to satisfy auditors and customers alike.Certification
- Control Design and ImplementationFramework requirements translated into operating controls that fit your technology stack, with evidence designed to be collected automatically.Certification
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.