Security & Compliance Assessments
Independent assessment and authorization support for FedRAMP, FISMA, DoD, NIST SP 800-171 and HIPAA programs.
Selling to a federal agency, a defense prime or a health system means proving your security, not describing it. That proof is a body of evidence — a system boundary, a control implementation statement, test results, a remediation record — assembled to someone else's standard and defensible under review.
We assess systems against the framework that applies to you and produce the artifacts your authorizing official, prime contractor or customer security team will actually accept. Assessment work is delivered with accredited assessment partners where an independent body is required; the engineering, documentation and remediation work is ours. Where a control gap turns out to be an operational problem rather than a paperwork one, we can fix the underlying system too, which is the rest of what this firm does.
What we take off your people's desks
- System categorization and boundary definition
- Control implementation statements and system security plans
- Evidence collection and gap analysis against the applicable baseline
- Penetration testing: external, internal, web, API, cloud and social engineering
- Remediation planning with owners and sequencing
- Continuous monitoring and reassessment as the system changes
How we deliver it
Scoping
We establish which framework and impact level apply, what the system boundary really is, and what evidence already exists. You get a written scope before anything else starts.
Gap assessment
Controls are tested against the applicable baseline. You receive findings with severity, the evidence behind each one and what it will take to close it — not a spreadsheet of unexplained failures.
Remediation
We sequence the work by what blocks authorization first, write the documentation, and where the gap is technical we can implement the fix rather than hand you a to-do list.
Authorization and monitoring
The package is assembled for submission and defended through review. After authorization, changes are reassessed so the posture does not drift.
What changes for the business
- An evidence package built to the standard your reviewer applies
- Findings you can act on, with owners and sequence
- Technical gaps closed, not just documented
- A posture that survives the next review instead of being rebuilt
Typical programs
Cloud provider pursuing FedRAMP
Boundary, package development and authorization strategy for a SaaS or PaaS going after an agency sponsor or the marketplace.
Defense supplier under DFARS
NIST SP 800-171 assessment and a defensible SPRS score, with the remediation actually executed.
Agency system through RMF
Categorization to authorization support across the RMF lifecycle, including the artifacts the authorizing official expects.
Health data platform
HIPAA Security Rule risk analysis and safeguard testing for systems handling protected health information.
Platforms and technology
Questions we hear from operations and finance leaders
FedRAMP, FISMA and NIST SP 800-53, DoD impact levels IL4 through IL6, NIST SP 800-171 with DFARS 252.204-7012, and HIPAA / HITECH, plus the governance documentation each of them requires.
Both, with a line between them. Where an independent assessment is required we deliver it with accredited assessment partners; remediation, engineering and documentation are ours. We tell you which hat we are wearing on which piece of work.
With scoping. Most failed reviews are a mix of genuine technical gaps and evidence that exists but was never written down in the form the reviewer wanted. Separating those two is the first week of work.
It is a separate engagement and can be scoped on its own: external, internal, web application, API, cloud configuration and social engineering, reported with reproduction steps and remediation guidance.
Regulated organizations are exactly where manual process survives longest, because nobody wants to touch a system that is under review. We can assess the system, close the gaps and then automate the process inside the boundary we just documented.
Yes. Systems change, and an authorization that is not maintained decays. We reassess what changed, keep the documentation current and re-test controls on the cadence your framework requires.
What this is worth in your operation
Your volumes, your rates, your call on how much a system should take. Nothing is sent to us.
What one process costs you a year
Pick a single repetitive process — invoices, orders, applications, claims, tickets — and price it end to end.
Labour only. It does not count the rework, the late payments or the customers who left while the queue moved. Runs on 46 working weeks and 1,800 productive hours per person per year. It is an estimate from your own figures, not a quote.
Send these numbers with an assessment requestSee what security & compliance would remove from your operation
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