Advisory Services

If you are preparing for a compliance assessment or just want to see how your current control posture stacks up against an industry framework, a readiness/gap assessment may be a sound decision. We provide holistic assessments to evaluate your readiness for an external audit, resulting in a detailed gap analysis report. Our reports contain actionable recommendations to mitigate identified gaps and best practice suggestions for identified vulnerabilities.

We offer this service as a complimentary benefit to organizations who contract with us for subsequent examinations.

Do you have a sound handle on your security program but just need a hand to manage and coordinate your audits? Your resources are busy, and the effort doesn’t justify a full-time employee.
We can serve as an internal project manager for your audits and relieve the burden on internal personnel. We speak the audit language; therefore, we can review audit evidence for appropriateness, review auditor findings and recommendations, and can create efficiencies to reduce audit fees.

We structure our programs based on industry-accepted frameworks and regulations, including SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST CSF, HIPAA, and GDPR. We know what your auditors want to see – because we are auditors!

*To adhere to independence standards established by our oversight bodies and our own policies and procedures, we are prohibited from performing compliance management services for any entity in which we also perform external audit or attest services.

Security frameworks, such as ISO 27001, often require an independent evaluation of your security program and controls to maintain compliance. Internal audits are also an excellent way to identify vulnerabilities and opportunities for improvement with reduced external exposure.

Many organizations find it difficult to source internal personnel with the expertise to perform an internal audit who are also truly independent of the operation of the environment being audited. Outsourcing this function not only provides a truly independent perspective but also valuable expertise from a spectrum of industries that may not be available internally.

 

*To adhere to independence standards established by our oversight bodies and our own policies and procedures, we are prohibited from performing internal audits for any entity in which we also perform external audit or attest services.

Risk assessments are fundamental to any security or compliance program. Unfortunately, many companies do not have the expertise internally to perform risk assessments that add value, causing this fundamental component of security to become a check-the-box excercise for compliance purposes.

AssurancePoint leverages knowledge obtained from hundreds of audits and technology platforms to execute a tailored risk assessment designed to deliver value. Our risk assessments are objective-based to ensure a business aligned risk strategy that ties hand in hand with your internal control program. We understand that compliance is not the goal. Compliance is a by-product of a well orcestrated security program, and it all starts with a well orchestrated risk assessment.

 

If you are a security or compliance assessment firm that has demand exceeding current resource capacity but cannot quite justify full-time hires, we offer temporary staffing arrangements to help you fulfill your projects.

We are experienced security, privacy, and compliance auditors who can efficiently and independently execute on your projects within your budget constraints. Don’t lose the job due to lack of personnel.

Partner with Assurance Point so you do not have to worry about resource capacity until you can justify that full-time hire.