IT Compliance That Keeps You Audit-Ready — Not Scrambling

We actively manage compliance for HIPAA (healthcare and dental practices), FTC Safeguards Rule (CPAs, financial advisors, mortgage brokers, auto dealers), and PCI-DSS (any business processing payment cards). Matt holds both the CISSP and HCISPP — the HCISPP specifically covers healthcare privacy and security regulations — so compliance work isn't outsourced to a separate auditor. The same team designing your IT environment is the one who can speak to it when a regulator asks. That continuity is what keeps documentation accurate.

Cybersecurity is the technical protection — firewalls, endpoint detection, email filtering, MFA, encryption. Compliance is proving that those protections meet specific regulatory standards, with documented policies, risk assessments, training records, and audit trails an investigator can actually follow. You need both, and we deliver both together so there are no gaps between your security and your documentation. We've seen practices that were genuinely secure get hit with findings because nothing was written down, and we've seen practices with perfect binders fail because the controls inside weren't really working. The point of doing both together is making sure neither side has a blind spot.

Our HCISPP-certified team handles the full HIPAA security rule — risk analysis, administrative safeguards, technical safeguards (encryption, access controls, audit logging), and physical safeguards. We create and maintain your required documentation, train your staff annually on privacy and security awareness, and prepare you for audits or OCR investigations. The HCISPP credential is held by fewer than 5,000 professionals worldwide and specifically covers healthcare data protection — so the person designing your safeguards is the same person who can speak to a regulator about why each control was selected. HIPAA penalties can reach $1.5 million per violation category per year, which is why the documentation has to be real, not theatrical.

The FTC Safeguards Rule requires a written information security program, a designated qualified individual to oversee it, regular risk assessments, access controls, encryption of customer data both at rest and in transit, multi-factor authentication on every account that touches client information, and ongoing monitoring with documented incident response procedures. We implement all of these and maintain the documentation the FTC requires. Most CPA firms we audit are missing the written plan and the encryption pieces, which are the two findings the FTC has been most aggressive about. The rule also requires you to notify the FTC within 30 days of a qualifying breach, which makes incident response planning a real operational requirement.

More often than most businesses realize. HIPAA guidance evolves as OCR publishes new enforcement actions, the FTC updates its Safeguards Rule enforcement priorities every year or two, and PCI-DSS released version 4.0 with significant new requirements around authentication, scripting controls, and risk analysis. Our ongoing compliance management includes tracking these changes and updating your controls and documentation before deadlines hit, not after. The cost of being a year behind on a regulatory update is rarely the rulebook itself — it's the audit finding that says you didn't notice the change and didn't have a process to catch it. That's the gap continuous management is meant to close.

Yes. If you have an audit coming up, we can run an accelerated gap analysis, implement priority remediation against the highest-risk findings, and organize your documentation package so auditors can find what they need without digging. That said, the goal is to keep you audit-ready continuously so you never need a last-minute scramble. Crash preparation is expensive, stressful, and almost always leaves gaps that show up in the final report. Once we have you through the first audit, the ongoing management work is a fraction of what it costs to rebuild the same documentation from scratch every cycle. The point is to make the next audit boring.