Compliance Management
Prove your obligations are met without rebuilding the evidence pack every time someone asks. We map every requirement you carry to a single control set, assign it an owner, and put it on a calendar — so compliance becomes a report you run, not a project you survive.
Most compliance work is done twice — or five times
The same encryption control satisfies an ISO/IEC 27001 requirement, a PIPEDA safeguard, a client contract clause and three questionnaire rows. In most organizations it gets evidenced separately for each one, by a different person, in a different spreadsheet, months apart.
Compliance management removes the duplication. We build a single control framework, map every obligation onto it, and make each control produce evidence once — reusable everywhere it's demanded.
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Obligation registerEvery regulatory, contractual and client requirement in one place, with the clause reference
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Cross-framework mappingSee at a glance which controls carry the most weight — and which gaps are most expensive
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Compliance calendarReviews, attestations, internal audits and renewals scheduled with named owners
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Questionnaire response kitPre-approved answers and evidence so sales stops waiting on security
What a compliance management engagement covers
Engaged as a one-time build, or as an ongoing managed compliance function for organizations without a full-time compliance lead.
Policy suite
Policies and standards written for how your organization actually operates, approved through your own governance, and version-controlled.
Control testing
Periodic testing that controls work as documented — with findings, root cause and corrective actions tracked to closure.
Third-party compliance
Vendor due diligence, contract security clauses, and a tiered review cycle so your supply chain doesn't become your weakest control.
Reporting
A one-page compliance dashboard for leadership and a detailed pack for auditors, both generated from the same underlying evidence.
Four steps to a compliance function that holds up
- 01 Identify obligations Regulation, contracts, client requirements and standards — documented with the specific clause each one comes from.
- 02 Map to controls A unified control set where each control shows every obligation it satisfies, and every gap shows what it costs you.
- 03 Close the gaps Policies, procedures and evidence built with your team, prioritized by how many obligations each fix resolves.
- 04 Operate the cycle Scheduled testing, corrective action tracking and reporting — run by your team, or by us on retainer.
Compliance management FAQ
Readiness aims at one certificate on one date. Compliance management is the ongoing function that keeps you defensible against everything you're accountable to — including the standard, but also privacy law, client contracts and internal policy. Many clients do both: see ISO audit & readiness for the certification track.
Obligation mapping and control design typically take four to eight weeks depending on how many jurisdictions and contracts are in play. Closing the gaps takes as long as the gaps take — which is why we scope that phase only after the mapping is done, rather than guessing at it in a proposal.
We can run the function on retainer, and for organizations without a compliance lead that's often the right call. What we won't do is own accountability — regulators and certification bodies hold your organization responsible, so control owners must be your people. We do the work; your team signs off.
No. We review what exists, keep what's accurate, and rewrite only what's unusable. Template policies describing processes you don't follow are worse than none at all in an audit — but a policy that reflects real practice is worth preserving, whoever wrote it.
Find out what you're actually accountable to
We'll start with an obligation map — the full list of what applies to you and where the overlaps are. Most clients are surprised by both halves. We respond within one business day.