Compliance and Risk Management for Dallas-Fort Worth Businesses

What we do

We translate HIPAA, PCI DSS, NIST, and SOC 2 into a practical security program. That means closing the gaps that matter to auditors and the gaps that matter to your actual risk. We do not hand you a stack of paper and walk away.

You get three things. A gap assessment mapped to your framework. A prioritized remediation roadmap that says what to fix first and why. Audit-ready documentation that holds up when someone asks to see it.

What's included

HIPAA compliance

If you handle protected health information, HIPAA is not optional and the penalties are real. We assess your administrative, physical, and technical safeguards against the Security Rule and the Privacy Rule. We look at where PHI actually lives, who touches it, and how it moves, then we flag the exposure your policies miss. You get a documented gap analysis, a remediation plan you can hand to your team, and the policies and evidence an auditor or a breached-record investigation will ask for. We keep it grounded in how your business runs, not a generic template.

PCI DSS assessment

If you take cards, PCI DSS applies, and your acquirer will ask you to prove it. We scope your cardholder data environment first, because a smaller scope means less to secure and less to defend. We assess your controls against the current PCI DSS requirements and identify what fails and what is close. You get a clear picture of your Self-Assessment Questionnaire path or your readiness for a formal assessment, plus a remediation roadmap ranked by priority. The goal is a real reduction in card-data risk, not a checkbox you cannot back up.

NIST framework alignment

NIST gives you a common language for security that customers, insurers, and regulators recognize. We map your current controls to the framework and show you where the gaps sit across identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover. This is useful when you need a defensible security posture but do not have a single regulation forcing your hand. We tell you which gaps carry the most risk and which can wait. You end up with a roadmap tied to a standard, not a wish list.

SOC 2 readiness

SOC 2 is what your enterprise customers ask for before they sign. We run a readiness assessment against the Trust Services Criteria you actually need, so you are not paying to prove controls that do not apply. We find the gaps between what you do and what an auditor expects to see documented and operating. You get a remediation plan and the evidence structure to survive the observation period before the real audit starts. We work alongside your auditor's process, we do not replace it.

Risk assessment and management

Every framework above sits on top of one thing: knowing your actual risk. We inventory your assets, systems, and data, then identify the threats and weaknesses that matter to your business. We rank them by likelihood and impact so you spend money where it counts, not where a vendor tells you to. This becomes an ongoing practice, not a one-time report that ages out in a quarter. You make security decisions with a clear head instead of reacting to the last thing that scared you.

Who it's for

You are a good fit if:

• You are preparing for a HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOC 2, or NIST audit and need to know where you stand.
• A customer sent you a security questionnaire you cannot answer honestly yet.
• You are chasing a certification to unlock bigger deals or a specific contract.
• You handle PHI, card data, or other regulated information and have never had it assessed.
• Your policies exist on paper but nobody follows them and nothing is documented.
• You want a security program that reduces real risk, not just paperwork for a filing cabinet.

We serve Dallas-Fort Worth clients on-site and work with businesses elsewhere remotely. Engagements are project-based, fractional, or ongoing, and you choose the depth. There is no long-term contract required.

What you can expect

A real gap assessment. We start by finding the distance between where you are and where your framework says you need to be. You get an honest picture, not a sales pitch dressed as a report. If you are further along than you thought, we say so.

A prioritized roadmap. Not every gap is worth fixing this quarter. We rank remediation by risk and effort so you know what to do first and what can wait. You spend your budget on the fixes that move the needle.

Audit-ready documentation. When the auditor, the acquirer, or the customer asks for proof, you have it. We build the policies, evidence, and records to a standard that holds up under review. No scrambling the week before the deadline.

Plain answers. You will always know why a control matters and what happens if you skip it. We explain the tradeoffs in language your leadership understands. You make the call with the facts in front of you.