COMPLY

Expert-led security compliance for organizations across industries and stages of maturity –helping you navigate customer, audit, or regulatory requirements.

COMPLY helps lean teams assess risk, unify controls, organize evidence, and prepare for ISO 27001, ISO 42001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, NIST, DORA, GDPR, and related requirements. Our practitioners use purpose-built Workbenches to structure the engagement. Depending on your needs, you may receive representative screenshots, selected views, reports, exports, or controlled access, alongside clear findings and a prioritized roadmap.Consolidate requirements. Optimize controls. Manage risk. Prove compliance. Lead with confidence. Yield lasting results.

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Who COMPLY helps

Practical compliance support for small and mid-size companies at every stage of maturity.

Whether you are building a program, strengthening an established one, or responding to a new requirement, COMPLY provides credible progress without requiring a large in-house compliance function.

B2B SaaS and technology vendors

Turn customer security questionnaires, procurement requests, and assurance commitments into a repeatable compliance program.

Typical trigger

An enterprise customer asks for evidence or a completed security questionnaire.

Baseline and Gap Assessment

Fintech, payments, and e-commerce

Coordinate PCI DSS, privacy, resilience, and customer-control expectations without running separate evidence projects.

Typical trigger

PCI DSS, customer-assurance, or payment-partner pressure is creating a deadline.

Baseline and Gap Assessment

Financial services and ICT suppliers

Prepare for regulated customer expectations, DORA-related obligations, and evidence requests with clearer ownership and traceability.

Typical trigger

DORA, ICT-risk, or third-party-risk expectations need an accountable response.

DORA and ICT risk baseline

Data-intensive professional services

Build confidence around sensitive client data, access, continuity, and the controls that protect trust-based relationships.

Typical trigger

Procurement or privacy questions threaten a client relationship or renewal.

Baseline and Gap Assessment

Organizations using AI

Connect information security, privacy, and AI governance expectations as products and internal workflows evolve.

Typical trigger

An AI use case creates a need for security, privacy, or AI-governance clarity.

AI and security governance gap assessment
COMPLY solution

Achieve compliance. Demonstrate it. Sustain it.

Achieve Compliance

Build security and compliance programs aligned with leading standards and frameworks.

COMPLY helps organizations establish the foundation for compliance by defining obligations, mapping frameworks, designing controls, clarifying ownership, and aligning governance structures to operational reality. The objective is to move beyond generic policy language and create a program that reflects the organization’s risks, responsibilities, systems, and control environment.

Demonstrate Compliance

Create auditable evidence and end-to-end traceability that supports defensible audit conclusions.

COMPLY turns compliance evidence into structured proof by connecting requirements, controls, UCC (Universal Control Criteria), COMPLY Artifacts, owners, reviews, and audit conclusions. This allows teams to show not only that evidence exists, but that it demonstrates control design, implementation, and operating effectiveness in a way auditors can follow.

Sustain Compliance

Maintain continuous compliance through governance, accountability, reviews, monitoring, and oversight.

COMPLY supports a continuous operating rhythm through recurring evidence reviews, internal audit, management review, corrective action tracking, KPI analysis, risk treatment, and governance oversight. The goal is to keep compliance current between audits, reduce recurring audit fatigue, and identify drift before it becomes a defensibility problem.

Model foundations

The compliance model behind defensible evidence.

These principles connect Unified Controls, UCC (Universal Control Criteria), evidence artifacts, traceability, risk, and governance into one auditable operating model.

A framework-agnostic model that unifies control intent, completeness criteria, and evidence artifacts.

COMPLY separates what a control is meant to achieve, what criteria must be satisfied, and what evidence proves the control is operating. That structure allows one compliance model to work across multiple frameworks without rebuilding the program for each audit.

UCC defines what auditors expect as objective evidence every time.

UCC (Universal Control Criteria) creates a consistent completeness standard for evaluating controls. Instead of relying on vague documentation, teams can assess whether the evidence supports the required criteria in a repeatable and auditable way.

COMPLY Artifacts turn evidence into structured, purpose-built objects mapped to controls and criteria.

Artifacts are designed to show why evidence exists, which control it supports, which criteria it addresses, and whether it demonstrates design, existence, or operational effectiveness. This makes evidence easier to review, reuse, and defend.

End-to-end traceability supports defensible audit conclusions.

Traceability connects requirements to controls, criteria, evidence artifacts, and audit conclusions. This gives auditors and leadership a clear path from obligation to proof, reducing ambiguity during assessment and review.

Reuse evidence across frameworks to reduce duplication and audit fatigue.

When evidence is tied to unified controls and criteria, a single artifact can support multiple frameworks. That reduces repeated evidence collection, shortens audit preparation, and helps teams avoid redundant compliance work.

Governance and oversight keep evidence current through ownership, reviews, internal audit, and management review.

COMPLY treats compliance as an ongoing operating rhythm. Ownership, review cycles, internal audit, management review, and corrective actions help ensure evidence remains current between formal audits.

Risk is the driver: Unified Controls respond, UCC enforces completeness, and artifacts prove reality.

The model links risk context to control expectations and evidence requirements. Controls respond to risk, criteria define what complete implementation means, and artifacts show whether the control is working in practice.

Prevent policy-only and tool-only compliance with operational evidence.

Policies and tools are not enough by themselves. COMPLY focuses on operational evidence that demonstrates controls are implemented, reviewed, monitored, and producing reliable compliance outcomes.

Automated gap detection highlights missing criteria and partial compliance.

Criteria-based review makes it easier to see which control expectations are fully supported, partially supported, or missing evidence. This turns gaps into clear remediation work instead of vague audit findings.

A single integrated compliance evidence system built to be auditable and defensible.

The model brings controls, criteria, artifacts, traceability, risk, and governance into one evidence system. The result is a more durable compliance foundation that supports audit readiness and continuous oversight.

Compliance coverage

One Compliance Program. Multiple Frameworks.

A unified control structure creates reusable evidence across security, privacy, resilience, and governance obligations.

Unified Control Framework graph connecting ISO 27001/2, SOC 2, NIST SP800, NIST CSF, CIS, PCI DSS, DORA, and GDPR
Evidence traceability

Requirement -> Control -> Evidence -> Audit Conclusion

Every conclusion is tied to governance ownership, control operation, and validated evidence.

Requirement to Audit-Ready Output

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Requirement

Capture the obligation, from law, contract, customer demand, policy, or framework, that drives every downstream decision.

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Framework Control

Translate the obligation into recognized framework expectations and map overlaps so controls can be reused.

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Local Control & Criteria

Define how the organization meets the expectation, including applicability, ownership, guidance, and review criteria.

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Evidence Artifact

Link supporting proof to controls and criteria so evidence quality, completeness, and reuse can be assessed.

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Audit / Report

Show what was assessed, what supports the conclusion, and where remediation or governance action remains.

Key outcomes

Defensible outcomes for executives and auditors.

Defensible Audit Conclusions

Every audit conclusion is supported by traceable evidence that links requirements, controls, criteria, artifacts, owners, and review activity. This gives auditors and leadership a clear basis for understanding why a conclusion is reasonable and how it was supported.

Evidence Reuse Across Frameworks

Evidence is mapped to unified controls and criteria so one artifact can support multiple frameworks and standards. This reduces duplicate requests, repeated testing, and unnecessary rework across ISO, SOC 2, NIST, PCI DSS, GDPR, DORA, and related obligations.

Reduced Audit Prep Effort

Audit readiness becomes easier when evidence, ownership, control mappings, and review status are maintained continuously. Teams spend less time rebuilding evidence packages and more time resolving meaningful gaps before external review begins.

Continuous Compliance Governance

Compliance remains active between audits through defined ownership, review cycles, internal audit, management review, corrective actions, and oversight routines. The program becomes an operating rhythm rather than a point-in-time documentation exercise.

Executive Visibility

Leadership gains a clearer view of control status, evidence quality, risk treatment, audit readiness, and areas requiring action. This allows executives to govern compliance with useful operational context instead of disconnected status reports.

Sustained Compliance Through Oversight

Controls, evidence, risks, and governance activities are monitored over time so compliance outcomes remain durable. Oversight helps identify drift, confirm remediation, and keep the compliance program aligned as frameworks, risks, and business conditions change.

Governance visibility

Executive oversight without losing operational detail.

COMPLY connects accountability, reviews, control status, and evidence quality into a governance model leaders can act on.

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COMPLY UCF Workbench

Frameworks, local controls, categories, mapping rationale, applicability, and guidance.

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Audit criteria and evidence

Criteria, compliance artifacts, client evidence, and document-to-control relationships.

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COMPLY Security Stack Assessment Workbench

Clients, engagements, assessment scope, frameworks, assessment assets, and ownership.

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Risk treatment oversight

Assets, vulnerabilities, threats, evaluations, treatments, review state, and treatment controls.

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Management reporting

Risk register, asset register, SoA, audit criteria, mappings, engagement, and artifact reports.