Regulatory and Cybersecurity Compliance Services
About half of ASG's clients carry compliance requirements: an auditor, a regulator, a prime contractor, or an insurance carrier is asking something of them. We build the controls those rules require into the IT we already run for you, document them as the work happens, and keep the evidence current. An audit becomes a date on the calendar instead of a month of scrambling for screenshots.
- ✓Gap assessment results within a month
- ✓Controls mapped to your framework
- ✓Policies written to match your systems
- ✓Evidence collected year-round
- ✓We sit with you through the audit
- ✓Risk audits, quarterly for most clients
Compliance built in, then kept current
Which Rules Actually Apply
Half the businesses that call us aren't sure which rules apply. It comes from a contract clause, the data you hold, a regulator, or a customer's security questionnaire, and it's usually more than one at a time. We read what you signed and look at where your sensitive data actually lives, then tell you which frameworks are genuinely in scope and which ones you've been told to worry about for no reason.
Gap Assessment
A measured look at your environment against the requirements you have to meet, with results in your hands within a month. Every gap comes with what it takes to close it, what it costs you to leave open, and whether it's the kind of thing that stalls a contract, so it reads as a plan rather than a score you can't act on.
Control Mapping
Your systems mapped requirement by requirement to whichever rules you answer to: HIPAA, PCI DSS (the card-payment security standard), NIST CSF (the federal Cybersecurity Framework), NIST SP 800-171, CMMC (the Defense Department's Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification), GLBA, FFIEC and NCUA, or SOC 2. One control usually satisfies several frameworks at once, so the mapping is what stops you paying for the same work twice.
The frameworks we take clients through
Regulatory compliance looks different depending on who's asking. Each framework has its own page here, covering what it requires, what an assessment involves, and where businesses usually get stuck.
Also covered: PCI DSS · FINRA · CIS Controls · HITECH, ITAR, and the security questionnaires your customers and carriers send you.
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A compliance consultant vs. compliance run by your IT provider
A consultant finds your gaps and hands you a report. Somebody still has to configure the systems, write the policies, and answer the assessor's technical questions.
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| Compliance run by ASG | A compliance consultant | |
|---|---|---|
| Finding the gaps | An assessment, then a plan with owners and dates | An assessment and a report |
| Closing the gaps | Done by the team that already runs your systems | Handed back to you or your IT provider |
| Who touches the systems | The engineers who manage your environment | Nobody from the engagement |
| Your policies | Written to match how your environment is configured | Templates you have to make true |
| Evidence between audits | Gathered while the work happens | Gathered once the audit is booked |
| Drift after the project | Risk audits, quarterly for most clients | Nobody is watching for it |
| On assessment day | We're there, answering the technical questions | The engagement ended months ago |
| When the requirements change | Your vCIO (a virtual chief information officer) folds it into the roadmap | A new statement of work |
What else you get
Remediation
The gaps get closed by the engineers who already run your environment: encryption, access, logging, MFA, backups that hold up under a real restore.
Written Policies
Policies auditors accept, describing how your business actually works rather than a template with your logo on it. An assessor reads one, then checks the system.
Evidence Collection
Screenshots, logs, training records, and review notes gathered while the work happens, so proving a control ran all year doesn't depend on anyone's memory.
Audit Support
We prepare you, then we're in the room. The technical questions get answered by the people who built and run the environment, not whoever drew the short straw.
Defense & Manufacturing
CMMC and NIST SP 800-171, backed by five Cyber-AB Registered Practitioners on staff. Certification is issued by an independent assessor; our job is you walk in ready.
Healthcare & HIPAA
Security Rule safeguards on real systems, a Business Associate Agreement in place with Microsoft, and a full HIPAA audit yearly covering gaps, risks and the path forward.
Financial Services
GLBA and the FTC Safeguards Rule, plus exam readiness: NCUA examiners run the Information Security Examination, and ACET maps to NIST CSF 2.0.
SOC 2 Readiness
Your report is issued by the licensed CPA firm that audits you. ASG builds and operates the controls and runs your evidence through platforms like Drata and Vanta.
Cyber Insurance
Carriers underwrite on specifics: MFA, endpoint protection, backup design, training, incident response. We implement insurance-ready controls and answer honestly.
Six steps, and you know where you stand after the second
Compliance work goes wrong when nobody can say what's left. Every stage here ends with something you can hold: a scope, a findings list, a plan, a control, a body of evidence.
Scope what applies
Contracts, data, regulators, and customer requirements read together, so you're building against the rules that genuinely bind you and not a longer list somebody guessed at.
Assess the gap
Your environment measured against those requirements, with results within a month. You find out what's already fine, which is usually more than expected, and exactly what isn't.
Plan and prioritize
Findings ordered by what carries real risk, what blocks a contract or a renewal, and what's quick. You approve the sequence before anyone starts, and nothing runs on a surprise budget.
Do the work
ASG engineers implement the controls in your environment and write the policies alongside them. Your staff keeps working. The changes land the way any other managed IT work lands.
Document and evidence
Policies, procedures, training records, and control evidence assembled into a package that answers an assessor's questions in the order they ask them, rather than a folder somebody has to interpret under pressure.
Stay compliant
Compliance decays: new software, new hires, someone's temporary exception. Your Technology Alignment Manager audits against IT best practices and cybersecurity checks, quarterly for most clients, and your vCIO owns the policy and the risk conversation.
The part a consultant isn't there for
Passing an audit is a moment. Staying compliant is the eleven months afterward, when a vendor needs an exception, someone spins up a new app, and a control quietly stops being true. Because ASG runs your IT, that drift shows up in an audit we're already doing rather than in a finding next year. Your Technology Alignment Manager checks the environment against IT best practices and cybersecurity checks, quarterly for most clients, and your vCIO owns the strategy: the recommendations, the policy, and the conversation with your leadership about the risk that's left.
- ✓Risk audits quarterly for most clients, not once at onboarding
- ✓Findings become scheduled work, not next year's finding
- ✓Policy and roadmap owned by your vCIO
When did your IT provider last call you first?
Most IT waits for the phone to ring. ASG comes to you before there's something to call about. Here's the mechanism behind that, in writing.
Quarterly Risk Audits
Your Technology Alignment Manager (TAM) audits your environment against IT best practices and cybersecurity checks, quarterly for most clients, keeps your documentation current, and flags risk while it's still cheap to fix.
A vCIO Who Owns It
Your virtual CIO writes the policies, builds the rolling technology roadmap, and reviews risk directly with your leadership, so IT decisions get made ahead of the budget cycle instead of after an incident.
Findings Walked Through
That audit is a 317-question assessment across 46 categories. Your TAM and your vCIO each review and date every item, then the findings get walked through with you. Written in business terms, and they become next year's plan.
We'll be the most proactive partner you've ever worked with.
Audits stop being a fire drill
Questions, answered straight
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Related services
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