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Cybersecurity Compliance ServicesOne compliance practice. Three dedicated programs. Every framework SMBs actually face.

On-Site Technology runs cybersecurity compliance as a single practice with three specialty tracks for the frameworks that need their own playbook, plus umbrella coverage for everything else. Engineers write the controls, program managers write the evidence, and one team sees the whole map.

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    Cybersecurity compliance services align an organization’s technical controls, written policies, and audit evidence to a specific regulatory or contractual standard, then prove that alignment to auditors, regulators, customers, or insurers. On-Site Technology runs compliance as one practice with three dedicated specialty programs (CMMC Compliance Readiness, Cyber Insurance Readiness, and PCI DSS Standard Compliance) plus umbrella coverage for SOC 2 Type I and II, NIST CSF 2.0 (including the new GOVERN function), ISO 27001:2022, HIPAA, NY DFS 23 NYCRR 500, GLBA Safeguards Rule, and GDPR. Each engagement combines gap assessment, technical remediation, policy authorship, vendor risk management, and audit support. Delivered remotely to businesses across the United States, with deepest engineering capacity in Northern NJ, the NYC metro, Pennsylvania, and South Florida.


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    5 Phase
    Readiness-to-audit
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    Remote-delivered
    U.S. nationwide

    Three Programs With Their Own Pages

    Three Dedicated Compliance Programs

    Three frameworks need their own playbook because the controls, evidence, and audit process diverge from everything else. Each one has a dedicated page with the full program detail. The umbrella service handles the rest.

    Defense / DoD Supply Chain

    CMMC Compliance Readiness

    Level 1 self-assessment readiness, Level 2 third-party (C3PAO) prep, and SPRS score guidance for DoD prime and sub contractors handling Controlled Unclassified Information.

    • NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 control mapping plus NIST 800-172 enhancements
    • System Security Plan (SSP) authorship and Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M)
    • SPRS score baseline, gap closure, and C3PAO assessment liaison

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    Underwriter Pass · Premium Down

    Cyber Insurance Readiness

    Pass the underwriter questionnaire, qualify for the policy, and reduce the premium by attesting to the controls carriers now require before they bind coverage.

    • Carrier questionnaire mapping (Travelers, Chubb, AIG, Beazley, Coalition)
    • MFA, EDR, immutable backup, and incident response evidence
    • Sub-limit and exclusion remediation, broker liaison, renewal prep

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    Merchant & Service Provider

    PCI DSS Standard Compliance

    PCI DSS v4.0.1 readiness for merchants and service providers, including all 51 future-dated requirements that became mandatory 31 March 2025.

    • Cardholder Data Environment (CDE) scoping, segmentation, and SAQ qualification (A–D)
    • Gap assessment against all 12 Requirements plus payment page script integrity (6.4.3, 11.6.1)
    • ASV scan readiness, penetration test coordination, ROC or SAQ submission liaison

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    Six Failure Modes We See Repeatedly

    Where Compliance Programs Fail

    A binder of policies is not a compliance program. Auditors, customers, and cyber insurance underwriters all read for the same recurring failure modes, and each one has a fix that lives upstream of the technology.

    Policy Binder, No Operating Reality

    A 60-page policy library bought from a template vendor, signed by an executive, and never read again. The auditor finds it within minutes: the access review log shows zero entries, the vendor list has companies the business stopped using two years ago, the incident response plan names a CTO who left in 2023.

    Gaps Documented, Not Fixed

    A consulting firm runs a gap assessment, hands over a 90-page report, and disappears. Six months later the gaps are still gaps because no one was assigned to remediate them and no one had the engineering bandwidth to do it. The next assessment finds the same gaps with a higher cost of capital.

    Policy Without Implemented Control

    The policy says “all administrative access requires multi-factor authentication.” The reality is that three accounts have legacy app passwords and one service account hasn’t been rotated since 2022. Compliance auditors and cyber insurance underwriters now sample tenant configuration directly to catch this gap.

    Vendor and Supply Chain Black Hole

    NIST CSF 2.0 (GV.SC), SOC 2, and PCI DSS now treat vendor risk as a first-class control. Most SMB compliance programs have no real vendor inventory, no SOC 2 reports on file, no MSAs with security exhibits, and no exit plan. A single fourth-party breach now triggers customer questions you cannot answer.

    Audit Cram Three Weeks Out

    A compliance program is supposed to operate continuously, with evidence captured as part of normal operations. In practice, evidence collection starts six weeks before the audit deadline. People scramble for screenshots that should have been logged automatically. The auditor finds it because the timestamps cluster.

    One-Framework Tunnel Vision

    A business chases SOC 2, then hits a HIPAA renewal, then gets asked for ISO 27001 by a European customer, then gets a cyber insurance application that asks for everything at once. Each one is treated as a separate fire drill instead of one mapped control set. The same control gets evidenced three times for three audits.


    Four Programmatic Deliverables

    What a Real Compliance Program Includes

    A compliance program lives in four artifacts that operate continuously, not four documents that get refreshed before an audit. Each one has an owner, a maintenance cadence, and a place in the audit trail. We build all four, then teach your team to operate them.

    Risk Assessment & Scope

    The quantified foundation everything rests on. Asset inventory, data flow diagram, threat modeling, control gap baseline, and a written scope statement that the auditor will accept on day one. Refreshed at least annually.

    • Asset inventory and data classification
    • Data flow and trust boundary diagrams
    • Threat model aligned to MITRE ATT&CK
    • Risk register with treatment decisions
    • Scope statement signed by leadership

    Written Policy Library

    Framework-aligned policies authored to your business, not bought from a template vendor. Each policy is short, operationally specific, signed by the right authority, and tied to evidence so the auditor can trace policy to practice.

    • Information security and acceptable use
    • Access control and identity management
    • Incident response and breach notification
    • Vendor and supply chain risk management
    • Annual policy review with attestation

    Implemented Technical Controls

    The configuration work that makes the policy real. MFA enforced everywhere, EDR deployed and tuned, immutable backup with tested restore, network segmentation where required, and logging that actually feeds a SIEM that someone reviews.

    • MFA on every account, no legacy bypass
    • EDR plus 24/7 monitored response
    • Immutable backup with quarterly restore tests
    • Network segmentation and zero-trust scoping
    • Centralized logging with retention met

    Audit Evidence Repository

    Continuously captured evidence stored in a single repository the auditor can sample. Access reviews, log retention proofs, training records, vendor SOC 2 reports, change tickets, vulnerability scan results, and tabletop after-action reports. All timestamped, all current.

    • Quarterly access review evidence
    • Vendor SOC 2 report and BAA library
    • Vulnerability and penetration test reports
    • Security awareness training records
    • Tabletop and incident retrospective logs

    Eight Frameworks Under the Umbrella

    Every Framework an SMB Actually Faces

    Beyond the three dedicated programs above, our umbrella compliance service runs the eight frameworks SMBs in healthcare, financial services, technology, and regulated industries are most often asked to certify, attest, or align to.

    SOC 2 Type I & II

    Trust Services Criteria for SaaS, fintech, and any service organization storing customer data. Type I attests design at a point in time; Type II attests operating effectiveness across a window.

    NIST CSF 2.0

    The 2024 update added a sixth GOVERN function elevating cybersecurity to board-level accountability and adding supply chain risk management as a first-class control. We map your program to all six functions.

    ISO 27001:2022

    International Information Security Management System (ISMS) standard. The 2022 revision restructured Annex A from 114 to 93 controls across four themes. Heavy overlap with SOC 2.

    HIPAA Security Rule

    45 CFR Part 164 administrative, physical, and technical safeguards for Protected Health Information. Includes Security Risk Analysis, Security Official designation, BAA program, and breach notification.

    NY DFS 23 NYCRR 500

    Cybersecurity regulation for NY-licensed financial institutions. Amendment 2 adds GOVERN-style governance (Nov 2024), expanded MFA + asset inventory (Nov 1, 2025), and the first annual certification under the new requirements is due 15 April 2026.

    GLBA Safeguards Rule

    FTC Safeguards Rule (16 CFR 314) for financial institutions and tax preparers. The 2023 amendments added a Qualified Individual designation, written incident response, and reportable-event notification within 30 days.

    GDPR

    EU General Data Protection Regulation for any business processing the personal data of EU subjects. Lawful basis, DPIA, DSR fulfillment, breach notification within 72 hours, and Article 32 technical measures.

    CIS Controls v8.1

    Center for Internet Security 18 prioritized control groups. Implementation Groups 1, 2, 3 scale to organization size. Strong starting framework for SMBs that want a defensible baseline before adding regulatory layers.


    Our Methodology

    Five Phases From First Question to Audit-Ready

    Every compliance engagement runs through the same disciplined sequence. The shape of the program differs by framework, but the phases and deliverables stay consistent.

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    Phase 1

    Discovery

    Asset inventory, data flow mapping, scope definition, and framework selection. We confirm what data triggers compliance, where it lives, who touches it, and which standards actually apply.

    Deliverables: Asset register, scoping statement, framework selection memo.
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    Phase 2

    Gap Assessment

    Each control compared against current state. We test, observe, and interview to score every control as Implemented, Partial, or Missing, then quantify the residual risk for each gap.

    Deliverables: Gap matrix, risk register, executive readiness scorecard.
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    Phase 3

    Remediation Roadmap

    Each gap assigned to a specific work stream with owner, technical lead, target date, and budget envelope. We prioritize by audit risk, not vendor preference.

    Deliverables: POA&M, sequenced project plan, vendor and license budget.
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    Phase 4

    Implementation

    Engineers do the work. Identity hardening, encryption, logging, MFA enforcement, vendor risk reviews, policy library, and training rollout. Compliance program managers track evidence as it’s generated.

    Deliverables: Configured controls, policy library, evidence repository.
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    Phase 5

    Audit Support & Monitoring

    We sit shoulder-to-shoulder with auditors, respond to evidence requests, and manage findings. After certification, ongoing monitoring keeps controls operational and evidence current for the next cycle.

    Deliverables: Audit liaison, finding responses, quarterly governance reviews.

    By Industry

    Which Framework Does My Industry Need?

    Compliance is industry-shaped. Here’s the framework most often required, plus the secondary standards that show up in customer questionnaires and cyber insurance applications.

    Healthcare & Life Sciences

    Primary: HIPAA · Secondary: SOC 2, NIST CSF

    Practices, billing companies, MedTech vendors, and digital health firms. HIPAA Security Rule is non-negotiable; many enterprise customers also require a SOC 2 Type II report on top.

    Most relevant programCyber Insurance Readiness

    Financial Services

    Primary: NY DFS, GLBA · Secondary: SOC 2, NIST CSF

    RIAs, broker-dealers, insurance, lending, accounting. NY-licensed entities answer to DFS. FTC’s expanded GLBA Safeguards now reaches auto dealers, tax preparers, and mortgage brokers nationally.

    Most relevant programCyber Insurance Readiness

    Defense & Aerospace

    Primary: CMMC 2.0 · Secondary: NIST SP 800-171

    Any prime or sub handling FCI or CUI under DFARS 252.204-7012. CMMC 2.0 final rule is now active in DoD contracts.

    Most relevant programCMMC Compliance Readiness

    SaaS & Technology

    Primary: SOC 2 Type II · Secondary: ISO 27001, HIPAA

    SaaS platforms, MSPs, and managed service shops face SOC 2 questionnaires from every enterprise prospect. ISO 27001 follows when international or government deals enter the pipeline.

    Most relevant programCyber Insurance Readiness

    Retail & E-commerce

    Primary: PCI DSS 4.0 · Secondary: SOC 2, GDPR

    Any merchant accepting card payments. PCI DSS 4.0 is fully in effect. SAQ levels and ASV scan cadence depend on annual transaction volume and architecture.

    Most relevant programPCI DSS Standard Compliance

    Professional Services

    Primary: NIST CSF 2.0 · Secondary: client-driven

    Law firms, consultancies, and architecture / engineering shops. Compliance burden is usually customer-driven via vendor questionnaires; NIST CSF 2.0 is the durable baseline that answers most of them.

    Most relevant programCyber Insurance Readiness

    Why OST

    Engineers Who Remediate, Not Auditors Who Report

    Most compliance vendors hand you a 60-page gap report and disappear. We are the engineers who actually fix the gaps, manage the evidence, and walk you through audit. One firm, one accountable team.

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    We Fix, Not Just Find

    Most compliance shops can identify gaps. Few can configure Entra ID conditional access, deploy MFA, harden M365, segment your network, or roll out a SIEM. We do all of it under the same engagement.

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    Fixed-Scope Readiness Pricing

    Readiness assessments are flat-fee, scoped before the engagement starts. You know what you’re paying, what you’re getting, and when it’s due. No hourly billing roulette during the most uncertain phase.

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    Quarterly Governance Reviews

    Compliance is a recurring obligation, not a one-time project. Managed clients get a quarterly executive review covering control health, evidence freshness, audit calendar, and emerging regulation that changes the picture.

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    Stack-Integrated

    If OST already runs your managed IT or managed cybersecurity, compliance is faster and cheaper because we already have the visibility, tools, and access to make controls work.


    Engagement Models

    How We Engage

    Three ways to get from where you are to audit-ready, fixed-scope and predictable in cost.

    Engagement 1

    Compliance Readiness Review

    Fixed-scope, fixed-fee assessment for one framework. Discovery + Gap Assessment + Remediation Roadmap. Three to six weeks. Output is a board-ready scorecard plus a sequenced POA&M.

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    Engagement 2

    Compliance Implementation Program

    Project engagement covering Phases 1 through 5: get a framework from current state to audit-ready. Typically three to nine months depending on framework, gap depth, and team availability.

    Engagement 3

    Managed Compliance

    Ongoing monthly retainer. Evidence freshness, control monitoring, vendor risk reviews, policy refresh, audit liaison, and quarterly executive scorecards. The model that survives multi-year audit cycles.



    Compliance Frequently Asked Questions

    Cybersecurity Compliance FAQ

    The 12 questions we hear most often during scoping calls.

    What are cybersecurity compliance services?

    Cybersecurity compliance services align an organization’s technical controls, written policies, and audit evidence to a specific standard, then prove that alignment to auditors, regulators, customers, or insurers. The work spans gap assessment, technical remediation, policy authorship, vendor and supply chain risk management, evidence collection, and audit support. On-Site Technology runs three dedicated specialty programs: CMMC Compliance Readiness, Cyber Insurance Readiness, and PCI DSS Standard Compliance. We also run umbrella coverage for SOC 2, NIST CSF 2.0, ISO 27001:2022, HIPAA, NY DFS 23 NYCRR 500, GLBA, and GDPR.

    Do I need SOC 2 or ISO 27001?

    For most U.S.-only SaaS and professional service firms, SOC 2 Type II is the default trust signal because that’s what enterprise procurement teams ask for. ISO 27001 becomes relevant when international customers, government deals, or regulated buyers in Europe and Asia enter your pipeline. The two standards overlap heavily, so a SOC 2 readiness program builds most of the foundation for ISO 27001 certification later. We help you sequence the two so you don’t pay for the same control work twice.

    How long does PCI DSS 4.0 readiness take?

    For a Level 4 merchant with a clean scope (such as a fully outsourced payment page), readiness can run six to ten weeks. For a Level 2 or 3 merchant with cardholder data flowing through internal systems, expect four to nine months covering scoping, segmentation, ASV scan readiness, MFA enforcement, logging buildout, and evidence collection. PCI DSS v4.0.1 is now in full effect (the 51 future-dated requirements became mandatory 31 March 2025), so the bar is meaningfully higher than 3.2.1. Full program detail on our PCI DSS Standard Compliance page.

    When are the NY DFS 23 NYCRR 500 Amendment 2 requirements in effect?

    The 23 NYCRR 500 Amendment 2 phased in across three waves: governance, encryption, and incident response on 1 November 2024; vulnerability scans, access privileges, monitoring, and training on 1 May 2025; and expanded MFA plus written asset inventory procedures on 1 November 2025. The first annual certification covering calendar year 2025 is due 15 April 2026, and applies to all NY-licensed financial institutions and any covered entity above the limited exemption thresholds. We map your environment to each effective-date wave and produce the evidence the cert requires.

    What changed in NIST CSF 2.0?

    NIST CSF 2.0, finalized in February 2024, added a sixth function called GOVERN that sits alongside the original five (Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, Recover). GOVERN covers cybersecurity strategy, organizational roles, policy, oversight, and supply chain risk management as a first-class control category. The framework also expanded its scope beyond critical infrastructure to all organizations and added implementation examples. If you mapped to CSF 1.1 in the past, you need a refresh against the new GOVERN subcategories, especially GV.SC (Cybersecurity Supply Chain Risk Management).

    How do you handle third-party and supply chain risk in compliance programs?

    Vendor and supply chain risk is a first-class control under NIST CSF 2.0 GV.SC, SOC 2, ISO 27001:2022 (Annex A.5.19–A.5.23), and PCI DSS Requirement 12.8. We build a vendor inventory tied to data classification, collect SOC 2 reports and security exhibits for every critical vendor, score each vendor against your risk tier, and maintain BAAs / MSAs / DPAs in a single repository. Reportable vendor incidents feed back into your incident response runbook, and quarterly vendor reviews produce the evidence auditors now require.

    Can a small business be HIPAA compliant without a full-time security person?

    Yes. HIPAA does not require a full-time security officer; it requires a designated Security Official under 45 CFR 164.308(a)(2). For small practices and digital health vendors, that role is most often outsourced or fractional. We deliver the Security Risk Analysis, technical safeguards, written policies, BAA program, and breach response procedures, plus serve as the documented Security Official function for clients who don’t have one in-house. The standard scales down for small organizations as long as the analysis and documentation are present.

    Do I need both CMMC and NIST 800-171?

    CMMC 2.0 is built on top of NIST SP 800-171. If you handle Controlled Unclassified Information for the DoD, you already have a NIST 800-171 obligation under DFARS 252.204-7012. CMMC adds a third-party assessment requirement on top of that obligation for most contractors, plus the ability to prove your SPRS score. You don’t pick one or the other; CMMC is the certification that your NIST 800-171 work is real. Full program detail on our CMMC Compliance Readiness page.

    Do you deliver compliance services outside New Jersey?

    Yes. Compliance work is delivered 100% remotely. Discovery, gap assessment, policy authorship, vendor risk reviews, evidence collection, and audit liaison all happen over Microsoft Teams, screen-shares, secure document portals, and direct configuration access to your tenant. On-Site Technology is headquartered in New Jersey, with deepest engineering capacity in Northern NJ, the NYC metro, Pennsylvania, and South Florida, but that’s a capacity note, not a service boundary. If your business operates in the United States, we can run your compliance program.

    How does the cyber insurance application connect to compliance?

    Cyber insurance underwriters now require evidence of MFA, EDR, immutable backup, written incident response, employee training, and vendor risk management before they bind a policy. These are the same controls that NIST CSF 2.0, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 require. A compliance program built to any modern framework typically clears 80%+ of the insurance application requirements as a side effect. Our Cyber Insurance Readiness program maps the underwriter questionnaire directly to your existing controls and remediates the gaps that would trigger denial, exclusion, or sub-limit.

    What documentation will I need for an audit?

    Frameworks vary, but the durable list includes: written information security policy, asset inventory, data flow diagram, risk assessment and treatment plan, access control list with periodic reviews, MFA enforcement evidence, vulnerability scan results, penetration test report, security awareness training records, incident response plan with at least one tabletop exercise, vendor risk assessments and BAAs / MSAs, change management records, backup and restore evidence, and a board or executive review of the program. We build and maintain the evidence library so it’s current when the auditor walks in.

    What do compliance services cost?

    Pricing depends on the framework, scope, current state, and engagement model. A single-framework Compliance Readiness Review for a 50-user company is typically a fixed five-figure fee. A full Compliance Implementation Program is project-priced based on the gap depth uncovered in readiness. Managed Compliance is a monthly retainer that scales with the number of frameworks and the cadence of reviews. We scope and price every engagement up front. Send us a message through the form on this page and we will come back with a tailored estimate.


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