Strategic IT Risk & Compliance: Navigating Complexity, Ensuring Resilience
Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate evolving IT risks while ensuring your organization adheres to stringent regulatory and industry compliance standards.
Mastering Your Risk Landscape
In today’s interconnected world, IT risks are constant and ever-evolving—from sophisticated cyber threats to complex regulatory mandates. Navigating this landscape requires a proactive, strategic approach.
We partner with organizations to build IT risk management programs and ensure comprehensive compliance—transforming potential vulnerabilities into opportunities for stronger governance and sustained growth. Our expertise bridges the gap between technology and regulation, providing clarity and confidence.
Our Core Offerings
1. IT Risk Assessments
Comprehensive and tailored evaluations to identify, analyze, and prioritize technology-related risks that could impact your business objectives. Our assessments include:
- Vulnerability Assessments: Identifying weaknesses in systems, applications, and networks through automated scanning and manual penetration testing.
- Threat Modeling: Analyzing potential threats and attack vectors against your critical assets—evaluating attacker capabilities, likely targets, and business impact.
- Impact Analysis: Quantifying the potential business impact of identified risks—measuring financial, reputational, and operational consequences.
- Deliverables: Detailed risk registers, heat maps, and actionable mitigation strategies prioritized by severity and impact—complete with ownership assignments and estimated timelines.
2. Risk & Control Matrix (RCM) Development & Optimization
Designing and implementing Risk & Control Matrices that clearly map identified risks to corresponding controls. This ensures every significant risk has an effective control in place—facilitating proactive management, audit preparedness, and clear accountability. We help:
- Create RCM templates standardized across functions.
- Map business processes to IT systems and controls.
- Document control objectives, control owners, test plans, and test evidence.
- Optimize existing RCMs for coverage, removing redundant or obsolete controls.
3. Internal Audit Support & Co-Sourcing
Providing expert assistance to your internal audit function—augmenting their capabilities and ensuring thorough coverage of your IT landscape. Our services include:
- IT Audit Planning & Execution: Developing annual IT audit plans aligned to risk frameworks (COBIT, COSO), and executing detailed audit engagements.
- Subject Matter Expertise: Lending specialized knowledge in complex IT areas such as cloud security, ERP controls, data privacy, and emerging technologies.
- Co-Sourcing Arrangements: Seamlessly integrating with and extending your internal audit team for specific projects or ongoing support—allowing flexibility and scalability.
- External Audit Readiness: Preparing your organization for seamless and successful external audits—providing pre-audit walkthroughs, documentation support, and remediation tracking.
4. Regulatory Compliance & Readiness Services
Guiding organizations through the complexities of various regulatory frameworks and industry standards—helping you achieve and maintain compliance. Our expertise includes:
- SOC Readiness: Comprehensive preparation for SOC 1 (financial reporting controls) and SOC 2 (Trust Services Criteria: Security, Availability, Processing Integrity, Confidentiality, Privacy) audits, demonstrating your commitment to data protection and service delivery.
- PCI DSS Compliance: Achieving and maintaining compliance for organizations that process, store, or transmit cardholder data—covering network segmentation, encryption, and vulnerability scanning.
- HIPAA Compliance: Ensuring compliance for healthcare entities and their business associates—implementing administrative, physical, and technical safeguards for PHI.
- Co-Sourcing Arrangements: Seamlessly integrating with and extending your internal audit team for specific projects or ongoing support—allowing flexibility and scalability.
- Co-Sourcing Arrangements: Seamlessly integrating with and extending your internal audit team for specific projects or ongoing support—allowing flexibility and scalability.
- GDPR / CCPA / Other Data Privacy Regulations: Implementing necessary controls and processes to meet global and regional data protection requirements—establishing data inventories, consent mechanisms, and breach notification workflows.
- ISO 27001: Establishing, implementing, maintaining, and continually improving an Information Security Management System (ISMS) aligned with ISO 27001—guiding clients through gap analysis, risk assessment, Statement of Applicability (SoA), and certification audits.
- Industry-Specific Compliance: e.g., NERC CIP for energy utilities, FedRAMP for government contractors, and other niche standards—delivering tailored control frameworks and audit support.
Our Holistic Approach to Risk & Compliance
We believe effective risk and compliance management is an ongoing journey, not a one-time project. Our approach is holistic, integrating:
Risk Identification:
Continuous scanning, threat modeling, and stakeholder workshops.
Control Implementation:
Building controls (SoD, ITGC, ITAC) and automating them wherever possible.
Continuous Monitoring:
Leveraging GRC platforms (SAP GRC, Oracle Risk Management Cloud, Saviynt) to provide real-time dashboards, automated alerts, and trend analysis.
Adaptive Strategies:
Regularly reviewing and adjusting controls, policies, and procedures to adapt to new threats, regulations, and business priorities.
Tangible Outcomes & Business Impact
June 12, 2025
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Access Review Efficiency: Moved from manual Excel-based reviews (20 hours per cycle) to automated SailPoint certifications—reducing review time to under 2 hours per owner. SoD Conflict Reduction: Eliminated 95% of existing SoD violations within three months of go-live—reducing material audit
Our Integrated Solution
June 12, 2025
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IGA Tool Selection & Planning: We conducted workshops with stakeholders (IT, Security, Audit, and Business Process Owners) to evaluate multiple Identity Governance & Administration (IGA) platforms. SailPoint emerged as the ideal fit due to its SoD automation, cloud readiness, and
The Business Challenge
June 12, 2025
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Disparate legacy systems led to siloed data and slow reporting, hindering strategic decision-making. Manual user access reviews were time-consuming, prone to errors, and created significant compliance risks—over 200 SoD conflicts existed across SAP, Oracle, and custom applications. The internal audit
