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Compliance pressure usually arrives from outside: an insurer changes its requirements, a large customer sends a security questionnaire, a contract requires a certification, or a regulator sets a deadline. The work itself is rarely difficult, but it is detailed, and it goes badly when it is done in a rush. We help you work out which requirements actually apply to you, measure honestly where you stand against them, write policies that describe what your business really does, and gather the evidence in one place so the review is a formality rather than a scramble.
Get StartedWe start by determining which frameworks and requirements genuinely apply to you and which parts of your business they cover, because over-scoping is one of the most expensive mistakes in compliance. We then assess your current state control by control and give you a plain-language report on where you stand and what is missing.
Auditors read your policies and then check whether you follow them, so a downloaded template is worse than nothing. We write policies and procedures that reflect how your business actually operates, in language your team can follow, and keep them short enough that people will read them.
Most of the pain in an audit is proving that a control works, not implementing it. We help you identify what evidence each requirement needs, collect it, and organize it so it can be produced on request. Where one piece of evidence satisfies several frameworks, we map it once and reuse it.
We run a pre-audit review to find the gaps an assessor would find, prepare your documentation package, and stay available during the audit itself to answer questions as they come up. The same material handles insurance applications and customer security questionnaires, which usually ask for a subset of the same information.
ECG keeps the service mix tied to the actual environment, operating model, and business pressure.
Which frameworks apply, which systems and data are in scope, and what can be excluded
Cross-framework mapping so one control and one piece of evidence satisfy several requirements
Policies, standards, and procedures written to match how your business actually operates
Evidence identification, collection, organization, and gap analysis ahead of review
Insurance applications, customer security reviews, and vendor risk assessments
Plans of action with owners, dates, and a realistic sequence for closing gaps
We determine which requirements apply, which systems and data are in scope, and what deadline you are working toward. Getting this right keeps the rest of the work from expanding beyond what you actually need.
We assess your current state control by control and produce a gap analysis that separates what is already in place, what is partially there, and what does not exist yet.
We build a prioritized plan of action with owners and dates, then help you close the gaps: writing the policies, putting the technical controls in place, and documenting as we go rather than at the end.
We package the evidence, run a dry run against the requirements, and stay on call through the audit, renewal, or questionnaire so there are no surprises.
100%
HIPAA compliance achieved for healthcare client cloud environments
110+
NIST 800-171 controls assessed in a standard readiness engagement
Pre-audit
Gaps surfaced before the assessor arrives, not during the audit
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HIPAA for healthcare, SOC 2 for service organizations, PCI DSS for payment processing, HITRUST, ISO 27001, NIST 800-171 for protecting controlled information and meeting CMMC requirements, and NIST 800-53. We also use the NIST Cybersecurity Framework as a general guide and can help with state privacy requirements. If you have a specific framework in mind, let's talk.
No, and that separation is deliberate. Certification has to come from an independent assessor. We prepare you for that assessment, which means we can be far more direct with you about what is broken than an auditor is allowed to be. When you need an assessor, we can point you toward reputable ones.
It depends on the framework and your starting point. An organization with reasonable practices that has never documented them can often be ready in a few months. One starting from nothing, or facing a framework with substantial technical requirements, should plan on longer. We will give you a realistic timeline after the gap assessment rather than a hopeful one at the start.
Usually yes, because the second customer asks too. That said, we scope the work to the actual requirement. If you need to answer one questionnaire, we help you answer it accurately and note the gaps it exposed. If you need a certification to close deals, that is a larger effort and we plan it as one.
No. Compliance measures whether you meet a defined set of requirements on a given date. Security is whether you can withstand an actual attack. There is real overlap, and the frameworks encode genuinely good practice, but we treat them as separate questions and will tell you when a compliant configuration still leaves you exposed.
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