1. What does “IT compliance” mean for businesses?
IT compliance means adhering to relevant rules, regulations, and standards (e.g. HIPAA, PCI, GDPR, CMMC) by implementing proper security, documentation, controls, and audits.
2. Which regulatory frameworks can you help with?
We assist with frameworks such as HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, CMMC, SOX, NIST, and industry-specific compliance requirements depending on your sector.
3. How do you help businesses prepare for compliance audits?
We perform gap assessments, document policies, recommend remediation, assist with evidence collection, and support auditors through the review process.
4. What is a compliance gap assessment and why is it important?
A gap assessment compares your current IT environment and practices against the requirements of a particular compliance standard, identifying deficiencies and risks to address.
5. How do you ensure ongoing compliance after initial setup?
Through monitoring, periodic audits, policy reviews/updates, continuous training, and ensuring changes in your IT setup maintain alignment with compliance requirements.
6. Is compliance a one-time project or an ongoing commitment?
Compliance is ongoing. Regulations change, systems evolve, and new security risks emerge, so you must continuously maintain and review compliance efforts.
7. Do you help with policy creation and documentation?
Yes. We assist you in drafting, reviewing, and managing required policies (e.g. access control, incident response, data retention) and documentation that auditors expect.
8. How do you manage data protection and privacy under compliance mandates?
We implement encryption, access controls, monitoring, data retention policies, anonymization or pseudonymization, and data audit logs to enforce privacy and data security.
9. What role does employee training have in compliance?
A significant one. We deliver security awareness training, compliance training, phishing simulations, and periodic refreshers to ensure staff know their responsibilities.
10. How do I begin working with you on compliance?
Simply contact us for an initial assessment. We’ll review your current state, identify which frameworks apply, define a compliance roadmap, and guide you through implementation and monitoring.