The audit is the milestone. The program is the point.
Year one is the heavy lift — policies, controls, evidence, the audit itself. Then the report lands, the project ends, and the recurring work quietly becomes nobody's job. Access reviews slip. New systems go untracked. Vulnerabilities pile up. Twelve months later the next observation window opens and the scramble starts again.
We stay on. Your compliance program keeps running, on a cadence, with our team accountable for it.
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Nothing about your business pauses after the audit. New systems, new tools, new people, new customer security demands — all of it lands on your controls.
Programs rarely fail at the audit. They drift between audits.
Every team we work with knows what they should be doing. The problem is that none of it is urgent until an auditor asks — and by then the gap has a twelve-month history.
“What's changed since the last audit?”
A new warehouse, a new AI tool, a contractor with production access. Each one moves your audit scope, and none of them files a ticket telling you so. We ask this question at every review and log the answer.
Joiners, leavers, and the access nobody revoked
Onboarding, offboarding, security training, privileged access. Auditors test these first because they fail most often. We run the reviews and chase the stragglers so you aren't the one nagging your own team.
No one internally owns it full time
Without a dedicated resource, compliance competes with the roadmap and loses. A standing cadence with an outside owner is what keeps it from going quiet for three quarters at a stretch.
A real schedule, not a standing invite nobody prepares for.
This is the rhythm we run for post-audit clients. Every line has an owner, a frequency, and evidence attached when it's done.
Tracked in a shared post-audit tracker you can see at any time — every item with a status, a comment, and a next action.
As much or as little as you want us to own.
Some clients keep endpoint and training management in-house and hand us everything else. One sends us nearly all of their customer security work — questionnaires had grown into close to a full-time job internally. The mix is yours to set, and it changes as you grow.
User access reviews
Quarterly reviews across every app, revocations actioned, and the evidence packaged the way an auditor wants to receive it.
Access requests
A documented request-and-approval trail for new access, so grants have a reason attached instead of a Slack message nobody can find.
Vulnerability scanning & triage
Scans on your cadence, findings filtered before they reach you, critical issues escalated the day we see them, and tickets driven to closed and verified.
Joiners, leavers, and training
Onboarding and offboarding checks, and security training followed up at two weeks rather than on day 29 of a 30-day requirement.
Security questionnaires & SAQs
We draft the responses and, when it helps the deal, join your prospect calls to answer security questions directly. Your sales cycle stops waiting on compliance.
BCDR & incident response tabletops
Facilitated exercises with documented outcomes, so your team knows their roles and your auditor sees the test actually happened.
Alerting hygiene
“Show me your alerts” is a common audit request — and open, unresolved alerts are a common finding. We help get notifications configured, owned, and closed out.
Third-party risk
Vendor reviews on a schedule as your stack changes, with elevated-access third parties treated like privileged users.
Report distribution & trust center
A clean process for sharing your SOC 2 report or trust portal access with customers and prospects under NDA.
New framework planning
When a contract calls for ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, or CMMC, we scope the delta against what you already have rather than starting over.
Emerging tech governance
AI adoption, new data flows, new infrastructure. We translate what's coming in the regulatory landscape into controls that fit how you actually work.
vCISO leadership
Security leadership on call for the judgment calls — board questions, customer escalations, incident decisions — without an executive hire.
Every product we build is included in the engagement.
When we hit the same pain point across enough clients, we build something for it — and it rolls into your existing agreement under the same terms. No new line item, no separate contract. None of these existed two years ago; you're not paying more because they do now.
Sentinel
LIVEVulnerability scanning across your external attack surface and web apps, triaged by our team and mapped to your controls.
User Access Reviews
LIVEPulls every user across every app, flags who shouldn't have access, and packages the proof — end to end, quarter after quarter.
Access Requests
LIVEStructured access request and approval records, so provisioning has an audit trail without a new internal process to police.
Victor
LIVEAn AI compliance advisor in your Slack, trained on real delivery work — for the 10pm question before an auditor call.
Workflow Execution
LIVETurns your GRC platform's failing controls into completed work, with audit-ready evidence generated as the work gets done.
Evidence Validation
LIVEPre-submission checks against auditor expectations — format, date range, required attributes, control alignment. No surprises.
Nobody has to use any of it. It's there if it saves your team time.
You can always see exactly where the program stands.
Every maintenance client gets a shared tracker covering the full post-audit program — ownership, check-in cadence, environment changes, access reviews, vulnerability monitoring, alerting, corrective actions, report distribution, and next-cycle planning.
Each line carries a status, a comment explaining the current state, and the next action. It's the same document we work from, so there's no version of the truth you don't have access to.
Built from our internal delivery playbook and what auditors actually test — not a generic checklist.
Two or three people who know your environment.
We run delivery as a small matrixed team rather than a single point of contact, so your program has coverage through PTO, handoffs, and growth — and you're never re-explaining your architecture to someone new.
Meetings run bi-weekly or monthly depending on what's in flight, with Slack Connect in between for the things that can't wait for the next call.
The second framework is cheaper than the first.
Most teams don't stop at SOC 2 — a contract asks for ISO 27001, a healthcare deal raises HIPAA, a federal opportunity brings CMMC. The frameworks overlap heavily, and a maintained program is the foundation they stack on.
We scope the delta against the controls you already run, so expansion is an increment rather than a second year one.
Keep the program running.
Tell us where your program stands and what you'd rather not own internally. We'll come back with a maintenance scope, a cadence, and a tracker — on a six-month, annual, or multi-year term.
Already a client? Your maintenance scope is set with your account owner — no separate contract for any product we ship.