Service · Compliance & Cybersecurity
Compliance and cybersecurity: pass the audit you do not see coming.
The cyber-insurance questionnaire shows up with sixty questions on it. Half are about controls you think you have. A quarter are about controls you know you do not. The renewal is in three weeks. That is the moment owners notice they have a compliance problem: not a breach, a budget meeting with a clock on it. We score the posture, write the gap list, and ride the remediation until the controls are live and the assessor signs.
We score your security and compliance posture on the Controls pillar of the CTGA framework, inside the 100-900 Helix Score. The pillar covers identity, access, endpoint hardening, email security, incident-response readiness, security awareness, vendor security, and backup posture: plus the regulated frameworks: CMMC, NIST 800-171, HIPAA, PCI, SOC 2 readiness.
What we are not is a Security Operations Center. We do not watch your endpoints at 3 a.m., hunt threats, or respond to active incidents in real time. When you need a SOC or MDR provider, we help you pick one and integrate it cleanly. We score, we harden, we prepare. The score is portable: your carrier likes it, your board likes it, your prime contractor’s flow-down review likes it.
Key service areas
What the work looks like.
- Score security and compliance readiness on the Controls pillar (0-225 within the 100-900 Helix Score)
- Endpoint hardening and EDR vendor selection (CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Microsoft Defender for Business)
- Incident-response planning, IR runbook authoring, and tabletop exercises for the wire-fraud scenario
- Access and identity hardening: SSO, MFA, conditional access, privileged access
- Email security posture: DMARC, SPF, DKIM, impersonation defense
- Cyber-insurance questionnaire support and policy-renewal posture work
- Vendor selection for SOC, MDR, and pen-test providers when you need them
Named engagements inside this capability
How this shows up as a scoped engagement.
CMMC Readiness
If you sell to the DoD or to a prime who does, your compliance posture is the product. We score your posture against the 110 NIST 800-171 controls, write the gap list ranked by what a C3PAO would fail first, and ride the remediation until the assessor signs. We do not certify: that is the C3PAO’s job: but we make sure the day they arrive is not the day you find out you were not ready.
- A control-by-control gap analysis against NIST 800-171, written on the page
- A ranked remediation plan with owners, dates, and evidence requirements
- A policy and audit-trail bundle a Level 2 review will accept as evidence
- A go / no-go memo before you schedule the formal C3PAO audit
IT Audit
Every contract, every renewal, every license, scored 100-900 across Controls, Technology, Growth, and Adoption. We rank each tool by cost per active user, not cost per seat sold: the difference between an audit that finds the drift and one that confirms what you already had. Seven days end to end.
- A written audit document, 8-15 pages, plain English, no consultant theater
- A 100-900 CTGA score with a pillar-by-pillar breakdown
- A ranked cut list, dollar savings attached per item, ordered by what to cancel this quarter
- A renegotiation script you can hand to your operations lead for the keepers
How we engage
The Pulse is the door.
Most compliance and cybersecurity engagements start with a 60-minute Pulse to score posture and name the three Controls gaps that matter most. From there the work runs as an Engagement or an Operate program.
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Helix Pulse Retainer
A quarterly Controls re-score, questionnaire sanity-checks, and advisory on the EDR and SOC quotes your vendors send. Not the right tier for an active CMMC program: we will say so and recommend Engagement.
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Helix Engagement
We come in as your security squad. Close the Controls gaps the Pulse named, select and deploy the right EDR, author the IR runbooks, train the team, and re-score.
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Helix Operate
Full program shepherding through audit. Weekly cadence during remediation, board-ready compliance status every month, C3PAO coordination owned end to end.
What you walk out with
Concrete deliverables.
- A Controls-pillar score (0-225) inside the 100-900 Helix Score, with the gap list ranked by exercised cost
- A control-by-control gap analysis against the framework that applies to you (CMMC / NIST / HIPAA / PCI)
- A ranked remediation plan with named owners, dates, and evidence requirements
- An EDR and identity-hardening rollout plan with the vendor scored against your environment
- An incident-response runbook plus a rehearsed tabletop for the wire-fraud and ransomware scenarios
Honest scope
What we do not do.
We do not run a 24/7 SOC, hunt threats, or respond to live incidents. When you need that, we help you pick an MDR partner and integrate it. We do not pen-test or red-team. We do not resell EDR; we select and deploy. We do not sign the CMMC audit; that is the C3PAO. We make sure their visit is not the day you find out you were not ready.
Industries we apply this to
Where this service shows up most.
- Government Contracting The flow-down email wants your CMMC posture by the next option year. The audit floor is closer than you think.
- Healthcare EHR, billing, scheduling, and patient comms in four systems that almost talk to each other.
- Legal Practice management, a document portal, and the spreadsheet your senior partner will not give up.
- Manufacturing The ERP you picked a decade ago no longer fits how you ship, and the shop floor runs on a clipboard.
You can have the number by Friday.
The Pulse is free, sixty minutes, and the only thing you walk out with is your CTGA score and the three gaps that cost you the most. If we are not the right fit, you keep the score and we both move on.