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Certification Readiness
Customer Assurance and Trust Program
Establish a process for the inbound third-party risk reviews you receive, so your team can answer questionnaires and keep the material customers expect ready to hand.
What it covers
The engagement in detail
Inbound third-party risk management is the mirror of the vendor reviews you perform on others: your customers assess you the same way. We establish the process for handling those reviews, so the team knows who answers a questionnaire and how, and so the documentation a customer expects to find, including security overviews, subprocessor disclosures, certifications and policies, is maintained in one library rather than assembled under deadline each time.
Who it is for
Designed for growth-stage and venture-backed companies building the security program enterprise customers require, and software and SaaS companies, and organizations running business-critical in-house applications.
What you receive
Deliverables from this engagement
- Inbound review process
- Questionnaire response library
- Customer-facing documentation set
- Ownership and escalation model
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
- Close enterprise deals and answer customers
- Growth-Stage & Startup Companies
- Software and SaaS Companies
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.
- Security Program Baseline and RoadmapEstablish where your security program stands and what to fix first: a baseline assessment and a risk-prioritized roadmap aligned to your stack and goals.Certification
- 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
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.