Services — Compliance & Risk

Compliance readiness that holds up in the audit.

Cybersecurity risk assessments and framework readiness for HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI-DSS, and NIST — a gap analysis you can act on, remediation we implement with you, and evidence your auditor accepts.

Book a readiness assessment See who does what →

Who does what

We get you ready. Someone else certifies it.

The single most misunderstood thing about compliance: the firm that builds your controls cannot be the firm that audits them. Here's exactly where our work ends and your auditor's begins.

ScopeWhich framework

Gap assessment1–3 weeks

RemediateWe implement

Evidence3–12 months

AppliedIAM delivers

Readiness — assessment, remediation, and evidence

Independence required

Independent licensed CPA firm

Performs the attestation and issues your report

We work alongside the auditor you choose — we never sign off on our own work.

Any provider offering to both build and certify your controls is your first red flag.

Frameworks

Compliance services by framework

HIPAA

HIPAA compliance services

Risk assessments, penetration testing, and encryption strategy for medical and dental practices protecting ePHI — with remediation support and staff training. See healthcare identity security.

SOC 2

SOC 2 readiness assessment

Type I and Type II preparation: criteria scoping, gap assessment, control implementation, and the evidence pack your auditor will ask for.

PCI-DSS

PCI-DSS readiness

Gap analysis and control implementation for anyone handling card data — including the segmentation and penetration testing the standard requires.

NIST

NIST alignment

Security programs mapped to NIST CSF and 800-171 — the baseline for government-adjacent work and increasingly for cyber insurance questionnaires.

The assessment

What a risk assessment covers

Every framework, underneath the vocabulary, asks the same questions: who can access what, is it controlled, is it logged, and can you prove it? That's why identity sits at the heart of every assessment we run — and why an identity security firm is the right one to run it.

Access controls & MFAAccess reviewsLogging & monitoringJoiner / leaver processVendor riskIncident response planPolicies & documentation

Deliverables

What you walk away with

Report

Gap assessment report

Every gap mapped to the specific criterion it fails, prioritized by risk — so you fix what matters first, not what's alphabetically first.

Roadmap

Remediation roadmap

A sequenced plan with owners and realistic timelines — the document that turns an audit scare into a project.

Policies

Policy library

The 15–25 policies frameworks expect — access control, incident response, change management — drafted for your environment, not photocopied.

Evidence

Evidence pack structure

The folder structure and artifact list your auditor will request — screenshots, logs, ticket trails — so the audit is collection, not archaeology.

Beyond the report

We implement the fixes, too

A gap report without capacity to act on it is shelf-ware. Because the heart of every framework is access control, our delivery teams close the biggest gaps directly: access reviews and identity governance, privileged access management, MFA enforcement, and the monitoring and logging that generates your audit evidence continuously.

Engage us for the assessment alone, or for the whole journey — assessment through audit-day support.

Why us

Why teams choose AppliedIAM for compliance

Assessors who are also engineers

The people finding your gaps are the people who can close them — not a checklist team that hands off to nobody.

Identity depth where it counts

Access control is half of every framework. Identity security is our core practice, not a chapter in our binder.

Pen testing under the same roof

HIPAA and PCI expect testing; SOC 2 auditors ask for it. Our own penetration testing team delivers it — scoped to the framework from day one.

Honest about the audit

We tell you plainly what we do and what an independent CPA firm must do. No blurred lines, no conflict of interest.

Evidence-first approach

We build toward what the auditor will actually request, so the audit becomes a hand-over, not a scramble.

Priced for the mid-market

Readiness scoped to your size — not an enterprise GRC program sold to a fifty-person company.

Frameworks we assess against: HIPAA · SOC 2 · PCI-DSS · NIST CSF · NIST 800-171 · ISO 27001

FAQ

Common questions about compliance readiness

Do you issue the SOC 2 report or certification?

No — and no readiness firm legitimately can. A SOC 2 report must be issued by an independent licensed CPA firm; the same firm cannot both build your controls and audit them. We get you ready — gap assessment, remediation, evidence — and work alongside the auditor you choose. Any provider claiming to do both should worry you.

What's the difference between SOC 2 Type I and Type II?

Type I checks that your controls exist and are designed properly at a point in time. Type II checks that they actually operated over an observation window — commonly 3, 6, or 12 months — which is what enterprise customers increasingly demand. Most companies do a Type I first, then run the observation period for Type II.

How long does it take to get SOC 2 ready?

The gap assessment takes one to three weeks. Remediation is the variable — weeks to a few months depending on how much is missing. For Type II, add the observation window on top. Starting from a typical mid-sized environment, plan for a several-month journey, not a several-week one — which is why the right time to start is before the customer asks.

What does a cybersecurity risk assessment actually include?

A structured review of your policies, access controls, technical safeguards, logging, vendor risk, and incident readiness — measured against the framework that matters to you. You get a prioritized gap report, not a hundred-page generic checklist: what's missing, why it matters, and what to fix first.

Do you fix the gaps, or just report them?

Both — and that's deliberate. We deliver the gap report and roadmap, and our engineers can then implement the fixes: MFA rollout, logging and monitoring, access reviews, offboarding process, policy library. Most clients don't have spare in-house capacity, so “we'll just do it for you” is usually the version they want.

Readiness check

Find out how far from ready you actually are.

Book a readiness assessment and we'll map your gaps against the framework you're facing — with a prioritized plan to close them, and engineers who can.

Book a readiness assessment