Question 1

What is a compliance advisory engagement?

Accepted Answer

A compliance advisory engagement involves our experts evaluating your current security posture against your business goals and regulatory requirements. We then create a customized, step-by-step roadmap to achieve compliance, reduce risk, and optimize security investments.

Question 2

How long does a compliance roadmap take to develop?

Accepted Answer

A comprehensive roadmap typically takes 2-4 weeks to develop, depending on the size of your organization and the number of regulatory frameworks you need to comply with. This includes stakeholder interviews, architecture review, and deliverable creation.

Question 3

What is an ISO 27001 certification?

Accepted Answer

ISO 27001 is the leading international standard for Information Security Management Systems (ISMS). Certification proves that your organization has established methodologies to manage information risks, including data protection, confidentiality, and system availability.

Question 4

How long does a SOC 2 audit take?

Accepted Answer

A SOC 2 Type 1 audit (point in time) can take 4-8 weeks. A Type 2 audit (operating effectiveness over time) requires an observation period typically lasting 3 to 12 months, followed by a 4-6 week auditing phase.

Question 5

What is a compliance gap analysis?

Accepted Answer

A gap analysis compares your current security controls, policies, and practices against the requirements of a specific framework (like SOC 2 or PCI DSS). The output is a detailed report highlighting what is missing or insufficient, allowing you to fix issues before a formal audit.

Question 6

Which frameworks do you assess against?

Accepted Answer

We assess against all major global frameworks including ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, NIST CSF, GDPR, as well as India-specific regulations mandated by RBI, SEBI, IRDAI, and CERT-In.

Question 7

What is the difference between VAPT and a regular security scan?

Accepted Answer

A vulnerability scan is automated and identifies known surface-level flaws. Penetration Testing (the 'PT' in VAPT) involves manual, ethical hacking where our engineers actively try to exploit vulnerabilities to determine the actual impact of a breach, providing a much deeper level of assurance.

Question 8

What does an AI Risk Assessment cover?

Accepted Answer

As organizations adopt AI, new threat vectors emerge. Our AI Risk Assessment evaluates LLM integrations, prompt injection vulnerabilities, training data privacy, model inversion risks, and alignment with emerging AI safety frameworks like NIST AI RMF.

Question 9

Why should we hire a consultant instead of doing compliance in-house?

Accepted Answer

In-house teams often lack the specific audit experience to know exactly how a control will be evaluated by an external auditor. Consultants bring pattern recognition from hundreds of audits, drastically reducing the time-to-compliance and preventing costly over-engineering of controls.

Question 10

Do you offer implementation services or just advisory?

Accepted Answer

We offer both. We can act strictly as an independent assessor, or we can roll up our sleeves and help your engineering teams implement the technical controls (like SIEM setup, IAM policies, and infrastructure hardening) required to pass the audit.

Question 11

How much does a typical SOC 2 or ISO 27001 engagement cost?

Accepted Answer

Costs vary widely based on company size, cloud complexity, and current maturity. A gap assessment typically starts around $5k-$10k, while a full readiness and remediation engagement for enterprise SaaS can range from $20k-$50k+. Contact us for a precise quote.

Question 12

Do you provide the final audit certification?

Accepted Answer

To maintain independence (a requirement for standards like ISO and SOC), the firm that prepares you cannot be the same firm that issues the final certification. We act as your readiness partner and liaison, guiding you through the process, and we bring in our trusted network of accredited CPA and certification bodies for the final audit.

Question 13

How does AI affect our security posture?

Accepted Answer

Integrating AI (like LLMs) introduces new risks: prompt injection, data leakage into training sets, and output hallucination. We run specialized AI risk assessments aligned with the NIST AI RMF so your AI features don't put your compliance status at risk.

Question 14

How quickly do you respond to inquiries?

Accepted Answer

We aim to respond to all consultation requests within 1 business day. For urgent audit assistance, please mark your message as high priority.

Question 15

What happens after I reach out?

Accepted Answer

We will schedule a free 30-minute discovery call to understand your business context, current security posture, and compliance goals. We then provide a high-level proposed approach and cost estimate.

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