IT Compliance Services & Cybersecurity Compliance Solutions
Compliance Assessment Services
Expert-led cybersecurity compliance assessments, readiness reviews, gap analysis, remediation planning, and audit preparation across every major regulatory framework.
Our Approach
A Single Hub for Cybersecurity Compliance Assessments
SiegePal partners with security and compliance leaders to deliver end-to-end compliance consulting services - from initial readiness review and gap analysis through remediation planning and audit preparation - across every framework your organization needs to satisfy.
What We Do
What a Compliance Assessment Actually Involves
A compliance assessment is a structured evaluation of your organization's controls against a specific regulatory framework or security standard. The output is a gap analysis: a control-by-control comparison of what the framework requires against what your environment actually does. Done correctly, it tells you exactly what needs to be built, fixed, or documented before an auditor examines your program.
The distinction that matters is how the assessment is conducted. Documentation review tells you what policies claim. Infrastructure verification tells you what your environment does. We verify controls the same way an auditor eventually will — checking whether the access policy, the encryption setting, or the logging rule is actually active in the account, not whether it's described somewhere in a binder. A control that cannot be demonstrated to exist in your live infrastructure is treated as a gap, regardless of what the policy library says.
Every engagement ends with a prioritized remediation roadmap written at the implementation level. For cloud infrastructure gaps, we provide Terraform and CloudFormation guidance alongside the finding. Remediation guidance is actionable, not generic, so your engineering team can work from it directly without interpretation.
Frameworks
Compliance Frameworks We Assess
HIPAA Compliance Assessments
Comprehensive HIPAA readiness and gap assessments covering the Privacy Rule, Security Rule, and Breach Notification requirements for healthcare organizations and their business associates.
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Full PCI-DSS compliance assessments - SAQ guidance, gap analysis, and ROC preparation for merchants and service providers handling payment card data.
Learn MoreSOC 2 Readiness Assessments
SOC 2 Type I & II readiness assessments, control mapping, evidence collection, and auditor coordination across the five trust services criteria.
Learn MoreISO 27001 Gap Assessment
ISO 27001 readiness and gap assessments with ISMS scoping, risk assessment, Statement of Applicability, and live cloud control verification across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
Learn MoreNIST Compliance Assessments
NIST CSF and 800-53 maturity assessments - control gap analysis, scoring, and roadmap development aligned to federal and industry standards.
Available on requestRegulatory Compliance Assessments
Tailored compliance consulting services for industry-specific regulations including GLBA, FERPA, CMMC, and US state privacy laws.
Available on requestWho We Work With
Compliance Assessments for Cloud-Native and Regulated Organizations
Healthcare and Digital Health
Healthcare SaaS platforms, digital health startups, telehealth providers, and business associates handling PHI need HIPAA compliance programs that hold up under OCR scrutiny. We assess administrative, physical, and technical safeguards against your actual cloud infrastructure, not your policy documentation, and produce attestation letters backed by verified control evidence.
SaaS and Technology Companies
Enterprise customers and investors increasingly require SOC 2 Type II reports and ISO 27001 certification as conditions of doing business. We work with SaaS companies, AI-native startups, and technology platforms preparing for their first certification, or needing to expand scope for a new customer requirement, with fixed-price engagements scoped to actual environment complexity.
GovTech and Defense Contractors
Cloud service providers pursuing FedRAMP authorization and defense contractors working toward CMMC 2.0 compliance face the most technically demanding control verification requirements of any framework. We conduct control-by-control assessments against NIST 800-53 baselines with live infrastructure evidence collection, covering IAM, cryptographic engineering, audit logging, and incident response capability.
Deliverables
Compliance Assessment Deliverables
Our Approach
Compliance Engineering, Not Compliance Documentation
Most compliance programs are built by practitioners who understand frameworks but have never administered a cloud account. Most can produce a document describing the intended control. Few can produce evidence, pulled directly from the account, that the control is actually configured that way today. That gap between documentation and infrastructure state is where most organizations fail under audit.
We treat compliance as an engineering discipline. Every control we assess is verified against your live environment using tools we know from direct production experience: Scout Suite, Prowler, and CloudSploit for cloud posture; direct IAM policy analysis for access control; CloudTrail configuration review for audit logging. The gap analysis reflects what exists in your infrastructure, not what your policy library claims.
The result is compliance readiness that survives auditor scrutiny because it is based on what your environment actually does. When an auditor asks for evidence that a control is implemented, we have already collected it, and it matches the control requirement exactly.
FAQ
Common Questions About Compliance Assessment Services
What is a compliance assessment and how is it different from a compliance audit?
A compliance assessment is a readiness evaluation conducted before a formal audit. It maps your current controls against a regulatory framework or security standard, identifies gaps, and produces a prioritized remediation roadmap. A compliance audit is a formal examination conducted by an accredited third party that results in a certification, attestation, or report. SiegePal conducts assessments that prepare you for audits. We are not a certification body. The distinction matters because it defines the right sequence: assessment first to understand your gaps, remediation to close them, then audit once your controls are ready to be examined.
Which compliance framework should we pursue first?
The right answer depends on what is driving the requirement. If a healthcare customer or investor is requiring HIPAA compliance, that takes priority. If enterprise SaaS customers are blocking deals pending a SOC 2 Type II report, that is the immediate priority. If you are pursuing a federal government contract, FedRAMP or CMMC determines the path. For companies without a specific compliance deadline, SOC 2 is usually the best starting point because it addresses the security controls that underpin most other frameworks. A significant portion of SOC 2 control work carries directly into HIPAA, ISO 27001, and other frameworks, reducing the total effort when multiple certifications are required.
How do compliance assessments work for multi-cloud environments?
Multi-cloud environments require the same controls to be verified across each provider in scope. IAM policies, encryption configurations, logging architecture, and network segmentation are all provider-specific in their implementation even when the underlying requirement is the same. We assess each cloud environment directly, pulling configuration from AWS, GCP, and Azure separately and mapping each against the relevant framework controls. The gap analysis reflects what exists in each environment rather than assuming consistent implementation across providers. Most multi-cloud organizations have meaningful variation in how controls are implemented across their cloud accounts, and that variation is where auditors find issues.
What is the difference between a gap analysis and a risk assessment?
A gap analysis compares your current controls against the specific requirements of a framework and identifies what is missing or insufficient. It is control-centric: for each requirement, either you meet it or you do not. A risk assessment evaluates the likelihood and potential impact of threats to your information assets and produces a risk register with scoring. Some frameworks, including HIPAA and ISO 27001, require both: a formal risk assessment as part of the program, and a control assessment to verify that risks are being addressed. SOC 2 and PCI DSS are more control-centric. We conduct whichever combination the framework requires and scope the engagement accordingly.
Can we pursue multiple compliance frameworks at the same time?
Yes, and there is meaningful efficiency in doing so. SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria, HIPAA Security Rule technical safeguards, and ISO 27001 Annex A controls share substantial overlap in the access control, encryption, logging, and incident response domains. Controls implemented for one framework often satisfy requirements across others with minor additions. We map the control overlap at the start of any multi-framework engagement so you build controls once rather than three times. FedRAMP is the exception: its NIST 800-53 baseline is substantially broader and deeper than other frameworks and typically warrants a dedicated engagement track rather than parallel delivery.
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