A customer, a contract, an insurer and a prime are asking substantially the same questions in four dialects. Almost all of it resolves to a self-assessment you have to sign. We get you ready for that one — and for an outside audit when a contract calls for one.
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Spread over as many sittings as you like.
Which frameworks you actually owe, and why — a contract clause, a customer, an insurer, a board. Then the systems, people and providers that touch the data in question.
Outcome: a defensible boundaryQuestions arrive in focus areas — access, devices, network, data, logging, vendors — not as one endless form. Upload your policies and the relevant paragraph comes up beside each question with an Accept button.
Outcome: one answer set, reusedA gap report ordered by what buys most for least effort, the policies you are missing, the plan of action, and a report you can hand to whoever asked.
Outcome: something you can signOne answer about how you handle privileged accounts is evidence against every framework that asks about privileged accounts.
The bank is answered once and the links do the rest. Each additional framework costs you the difference, not the whole thing again — which is the only reason a second or third obligation is affordable at all.
CMMC is where we have taken this furthest, because it is the framework with a published scoring method you can be held to. The same discipline applies everywhere else.
110 requirements decided on 320 individual assessment objectives. One unmet objective makes the whole requirement unmet, so the roll-up is a rule rather than a judgement call.
Point values, partial credit and the roll-up come from the DoD Assessment Methodology itself. The engine that applies them is tested against the regulation rather than against its own output.
Where a framework restricts what may be deferred, we enforce it. Conditional status needs a score of at least 88, with specific requirements ineligible for deferral and a 180-day closeout clock. A plan that breaks those is a rejection waiting to happen.
Working papers, drafts and unapproved policies are not acceptable evidence to an assessor, so they are not acceptable here. A draft is flagged as one, every time.
We cannot show you a customer list. We can show you exactly which published documents the analysis is built on, so you can check our work against them.
Compliance marketing lists a hundred logos and means something different by each one. There are exactly two tiers here, and the difference between them matters.
We hold the requirement identifiers and NIST's published crosswalks for these — not their own text and not their assessment methods. So we can tell you which of their controls your answers speak to, and which they do not touch. A crosswalk shows coverage, never compliance. You will never get a percentage against a framework in this tier.
A contract clause, a customer questionnaire or a renewal form has named a framework and you are not sure what you actually owe or how big it is.
Start with scoping and a coverage mapPolicies exist, some controls are real, and nobody can say where you stand against the requirement set without a week of archaeology.
Start with the objective-level gap analysisA score is posted, an affirmation is on file, or an attestation went to an insurer — and you would like it to be true before anyone checks.
Start with verification and a plan of actionHand us your existing policy set. We map every section to the requirements it speaks to and tell you what your documentation already covers.
This is the most important sentence on the page, and the one the industry is loosest about. Readiness work and assessment are different jobs, and the same firm should not claim both.
Most obligations are met by your own assessment and your own signature — a SPRS self-assessment and affirmation, a questionnaire returned to a customer, an attestation to an insurer. Our job is to make sure the thing you sign is true.
When a contract calls for an independent opinion, somebody else examines you: an authorised C3PAO for CMMC, a licensed CPA firm for SOC 2, an accredited certification body for ISO 27001, a QSA for PCI DSS. We make sure what they find matches what you told us before they open anything.
Every other site in this category opens with a customer count and a wall of logos. We do not have those, and inventing them would be an odd way to start a relationship built on telling you the truth about your own compliance.
So there are no logos, testimonials, review badges or case studies on this page, and there will not be any until they are real and the client has agreed to be named.
What you can judge us on instead is directly above: the published documents the analysis is built on, the depth it is worked at, and the exact line between what we do and what an assessor does.
UpCISO is the platform we are building to deliver this work. The question bank, objective-level analysis, scoring engine, policy and SSP generation, plan-of-action tracking, coverage mapping and reporting are being built now.
The engagements we run today are delivered by us, not by you logging into software. When a module is live for self-service, this page will say so.
This is not a white-label product you resell. We work directly with the company that owes the obligation, which is also why there is no portfolio dashboard anywhere in the product.
You are early, and the honest trade is that you get direct access to the person who read the regulation, in exchange for being the client whose edge cases shape the product.
Bring whatever prompted this — a contract clause, a customer questionnaire, a renewal form, a score you posted years ago — and whatever documentation exists. A first call is scoping, not a pitch.