What's covered/05 · Compliance & GRC

We carry compliance, evidence and all.

SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, the security questionnaire that's blocking the deal - we own the framework, collect the evidence, and sit across from the auditor. You get a posture you can prove on any given Tuesday, not a once-a-year fire drill.

[ 01 ] Why ours is different

Compliance as an outcome, not a binder.

Plenty of platforms give you a dashboard of red and green and call it a day. We treat compliance the way we treat the rest of security - as work we own end to end, with the evidence to back every claim.

We own the evidence, not the checklist

Most tools point at a gap and hand it back to you. We collect the artifact, review it, approve it, and keep it fresh - so a control marked ready actually is.

- collected + reviewed + approved

Continuous, not a year-end scramble

Controls are monitored the whole year, not reconstructed the week before the audit. When something drifts out of compliance, it surfaces as a signal the same day.

- monitored daily · drift = signal

Mapped to the work we already do

Pentest findings, patched vulnerabilities, monitoring coverage - the security work we run for you flows straight into the controls it satisfies. No double entry.

- findings → controls, automatically

We sit in the auditor's chair with you

We manage the audit relationship, field the evidence requests, and answer the questionnaire inbox. You approve; we handle the back-and-forth.

- audit + questionnaires, handled
[ 02 ] The compliance flow

Six phases. One continuous posture.

From the frameworks you pick to the report the auditor signs, every program runs the same path. The two gated phases - scoping and attestation - are the ones we hold the line on, so a "ready" control is one you can actually defend.

Phase 01 · gated

Scope your frameworks

We agree which frameworks you actually need - SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA - and lock the scope. No paying for controls that will never apply to you.

Framework set · scope locked
Phase 02

Connect & baseline

Integrations pull live config from your cloud, identity, and code. We baseline where you stand today against every control in the chosen frameworks.

412 controls · baselined
Phase 03

Map controls to evidence

Each control is wired to the evidence that satisfies it and to the security work already producing that evidence - pentests, scans, monitoring, policies.

Controls mapped to sources
Phase 04

Collect evidence, continuously

Artifacts are gathered automatically and reviewed by a human. Anything that goes stale or drifts out of policy becomes a signal - before the auditor finds it.

Fresh evidence · drift caught
Phase 05

Close gaps & approve

We work the open gaps, assign owners, and approve evidence as it lands. You see exactly what is ready, what is pending, and who is on the hook.

Gaps owned · evidence approved
Phase 06 · gated

Audit & attest

We package the evidence, manage the auditor, and walk the engagement to a signed report. Every artifact is logged in the Sythe Labs platform and attestable on demand.

Signed report · attested in-platform
[ 03 ] The GRC app

Your whole posture, all within view.

This is the actual GRC surface your team logs into. Pick a framework and watch your posture resolve in real time - controls satisfied, evidence approved, open signals, approvals awaiting. It's the same view we work from, so we're never looking at a different version of the truth than you are.

app.sythelabs.com/grc · AICPA TSC 2017:2022● Live
Sythe Labs platform GRC posture dashboard - posture score, control matrix, and live signals feed

A posture score, scored honestly

One number, out of 100, weighted by satisfied controls and stale evidence. Every framework you run rolls up here - read-only for anyone who needs the truth.

A control matrix, mapped live

Every control in the framework - Common Criteria, Availability, Confidentiality, Privacy - with its evidence, owner, and status. Green means proven, not promised.

Signals when things drift

Stale evidence, critical gaps, and high-priority risks raise a signal the moment they appear, so nothing rots quietly until audit week.

[ 04 ] Frameworks

Add the frameworks you need. Only those.

Your security department is one flat price. Compliance is the one place we bill per framework - so you add SOC 2 when the enterprise deal needs it and ISO when you go international, and nothing before.

SOC 2
Type I & Type II, across all five trust-services criteria.
Most requested
ISO 27001
The 2022 revision, ISMS scoping through Statement of Applicability.
Supported
HIPAA
Security & Privacy Rules for teams handling protected health data.
Supported
GDPR
Records of processing, DPAs, and data-subject obligations.
Supported
PCI DSS
For anyone touching cardholder data, scoped to your environment.
Supported
NIST CSF
Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, Recover.
Supported
CMMC
Levels 1-2 for the defense industrial base and contractors.
Supported
Custom
Customer security questionnaires and your own control set.
On request
+ $3,000 / yrper framework - on top of your flat security plan. Add only what you need, when a deal, a region, or a regulator actually requires it. No bundles, no shelfware.
[ → ] Get started

Walk into the audit with the evidence already done.

A 30-minute call. We'll tell you which frameworks you actually need, where you stand today, and what the path to a signed report looks like - whether or not you hire us.