Compliance
Compliance & Governance
Become audit-ready and measurably more secure at the same time.
Compliance programs go wrong in two directions: organizations either treat the framework as the goal and end up with documented controls nobody operates, or they ignore it until an audit forces a scramble. PhoenoSec treats the framework as a checklist for work worth doing anyway.
Gap assessment against the control set that applies to you
Your obligations are mapped to a specific control set — PCI DSS, NIST CSF 2.0, CMMC, or a customer's contractual security requirements — and assessed against current practice, not current documentation.
- Scope definition, including cardholder data environment or CUI boundary
- Control-by-control gap assessment with evidence expectations
- Compensating control analysis where full compliance is impractical
- Realistic remediation timeline ahead of an assessment date
Scope reduction before control expansion
The cheapest way to satisfy a control is often to remove systems from scope. Segmentation, tokenization, data-flow simplification and vendor consolidation are evaluated before recommending new tooling.
- Cardholder data and CUI flow mapping
- Segmentation design to reduce assessment scope
- Data minimization and retention review
Governance that fits the organization
Policies are written to be followed by the organization that has to follow them. PhoenoSec produces a policy and standards set proportionate to your size, along with the risk assessment and vendor review processes auditors expect to see operating.
- Information security policy and supporting standards
- Risk assessment methodology and initial risk register
- Vendor and third-party risk review process
- Evidence collection process and audit liaison support
How engagements work
A process built to end in decisions, not documents
Every PhoenoSec engagement follows the same four movements, scaled to the size of the work.
- 01
Understand
Learn the organization, technology environment, business requirements, threats, and constraints.
- 02
Assess
Evaluate the relevant infrastructure, controls, architecture, processes, and security exposure.
- 03
Prioritize
Separate critical issues from lower-risk findings and create a practical remediation roadmap.
- 04
Improve
Help implement, validate, and mature the organization's security program.
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