Compliance — documented, defended, re-assessed.
CMMC, SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI, FFIEC, NYDFS 23 NYCRR 500, EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001. Assessed against the framework that actually applies to you, mapped to your controls, defended in front of auditors. Re-assessed every 12 months with evidence.
Companies preparing for an audit cycle (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI, CMMC, GLBA, NYDFS) or moving from a self-attestation posture to an externally validated one. Especially useful before the first audit, when the gap between policy documentation and operational reality is widest.
Compliance engagement scope
Framework selection + gap analysis
Which framework applies (or which combination), based on your industry, jurisdiction, customer contracts, and data types. Current-state gap analysis against that scope.
Control mapping
Your existing technical and procedural controls mapped to the framework's required controls. Evidence requirements documented for each.
Evidence repository
Audit-ready evidence collected, versioned, timestamped. Lives in a repository you control — not a vendor system you'd lose access to on contract termination.
Pre-audit dry-run
Internal walkthrough with our team playing the auditor. Issues surfaced and remediated before the real assessor arrives.
Auditor liaison
We attend assessor meetings, answer follow-ups, manage evidence requests. Your internal team stays focused on operations, not on assembling SharePoint folders.
Annual re-assessment
Same scope, re-run yearly. Drift surfaced before it becomes a finding. Continuous-compliance posture rather than every-three-year scramble.
EU AI Act + NIST AI RMF readiness (AI workload scope)
For organizations deploying generative AI, agentic systems, or AI inside regulated workflows, we extend the engagement to cover EU AI Act risk-tier classification (prohibited / high-risk / limited / minimal per Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 Articles 6, 9, 12, 13), NIST AI RMF function alignment (Govern, Map, Measure, Manage), and ISO/IEC 42001 AI management system control mapping. Deeper AI governance lives at /services/ai-governance — this engagement folds the compliance evidence into the same audit-ready repository.
Items below sit outside the scope of this service. Some are handled by separate EFROS engagements; others belong with your existing partners or in-house team.
- Issuing the audit attestation itself (auditor handles that; we prep the evidence)
- Custom internal-controls software development
- Legal review of contract clauses (legal counsel handles that)
- Bank or payment-processor enforcement actions (separate workflow)
The exercise of mapping controls to a framework surfaces the policy-vs-operation gaps that auditors find but attackers exploit first. Closing them produces both audit-ready evidence and a hardened operational posture.
This service is purely about framework alignment — SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria, ISO 27001 Annex A, HIPAA Security Rule, PCI-DSS v4.0.1, CMMC L1/L2, GLBA Safeguards, NYDFS 23 NYCRR 500. Output is an evidence pack the auditor accepts.
Industries this fits best
The pattern works anywhere; these are where the operational lift is most visible.
Healthcare
HIPAA Security Rule + HITECH; BAA management.
Financial Services
FFIEC, GLBA, NYDFS 23 NYCRR 500, SOX ITGC.
Legal
Bar-association data-protection expectations, client-privilege preservation.
Government / Defense supply chain
CMMC 2.0, NIST SP 800-171/172.
Companies deploying AI
EU AI Act risk-tier classification, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001.
Standard versions should be verified from the official source before contractual reliance.
Questions before we start.
Can EFROS issue a SOC 2 report?
No — SOC 2 reports are issued only by licensed CPA firms. We prepare your environment, evidence, and policies so the CPA firm's assessment is straightforward and the report is favorable.
We're already compliant — why re-assess?
Configurations drift, employees leave, vendors change, frameworks update (PCI DSS v4.0.1, NYDFS amendments, NIST CSF 2.0, EU AI Act phased applicability dates through 2026-2027). Continuous re-assessment catches drift before it becomes a finding.
Can you defend us in front of regulators?
We document, prepare, and liaise. Legal representation in front of regulators remains with your law firm — we coordinate evidence and technical responses with them.
Does this cover EU AI Act compliance?
Yes. The engagement extends to EU AI Act risk-tier classification under Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (prohibited / high-risk / limited / minimal), conformity assessment readiness for high-risk systems, and ongoing obligation tracking against Articles 6, 9, 12, and 13. Control mapping bridges to NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001 so a single evidence pipeline covers all three frameworks. Deeper AI governance — inventory, vendor diligence, tenant-isolated agents — lives at /services/ai-governance/ and is scoped separately.
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