Audits & Compliance

Know where you stand. Stay ahead of the rules.

Regulation is expanding fast. But compliance only sticks when your IT is under control and your security is concrete, so we focus on those first to help ensure you are ready to meet the strict audit requirements. Once you are ready, we can guide you through ISO 27001, DORA, NIS2, GDPR, and beyond, closing genuine gaps, building evidence, and helping prepare you for the audits you need to complete.

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The compliance reality

Compliance is not optional. The question is how prepared you are

Regulation is tightening across every sector. Most compliance failures trace back to IT that was never fully under control and security gaps papered over rather than fixed. These numbers reflect what organisations face when those foundations are missing.

69%

of organisations find regulations too complex, too numerous, or difficult to verify across their supply chain

Regulatory complexity is now the leading emerging risk for businesses globally. As requirements multiply, the gap between what organisations believe they comply with and what regulators expect continues to widen. (Gartner 2025)

31%

of UK businesses have a board member or trustee explicitly responsible for cyber security

Without board-level ownership, compliance programmes lack the authority and budget to drive real change. Regulators and certification bodies increasingly expect demonstrable senior management accountability. (DSIT Cyber Breaches Survey 2025/2026)

33%

of UK businesses have deployed security monitoring tools to detect and respond to incidents in real time

Without monitoring, most organisations cannot detect a breach in progress, establish its scope, or produce the audit trail that regulators, insurers, and certification bodies expect following an incident. (DSIT Cyber Breaches Survey 2024)

58%

of CISOs admit their organisation is not fully prepared to respond to a cyberattack

Knowing you face risk is not the same as being ready. A tested incident response plan, clear escalation paths, and regularly reviewed controls are the difference between managing a breach and being overwhelmed by one. (Proofpoint Voice of the CISO 2025)

Statistics sourced from Thomson Reuters State of Compliance 2024, Gartner 2024, and the DSIT Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2024.

How we can help

Compliance services that close gaps before auditors find them

We look at your IT, your security controls, and your obligations together. Then we close what needs closing, fix what needs fixing, and build the evidence to help you prepare for your audits and support you through them. Every engagement is scoped around your obligations.

ISO 27001 Implementation & Certification Readiness

ISO 27001 is the gold standard for information security management. We guide you through the full journey: gap analysis, risk assessment, control implementation, documentation, internal audit, and preparation for certification, working with your chosen certification body. You leave with a complete, audit-ready ISMS, documented controls, and the evidence package needed for your certification audit.

PCI DSS Readiness & Compliance

If your business handles card payments, PCI DSS compliance is non-negotiable. We conduct gap assessments against the current PCI DSS standard, identify scope boundaries, help implement the required controls, and prepare you for your QSA assessment or Self-Assessment Questionnaire. You leave with a gap assessment report, a remediation plan, and a completed SAQ or QSA readiness package.

Compliance Gap Analysis

Before you can close gaps, you need to know where they are. We conduct structured gap assessments against your target framework: ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials, NIST, NIS2, DORA, or sector-specific regulatory requirements, mapping your current state to each control. You leave with a prioritised remediation plan, effort estimates, and a clear map of exactly what needs to change.

Risk Assessment & Risk Register

Formal risk management is central to ISO 27001, NIS2, DORA, and most other compliance frameworks. We run risk identification workshops, build and maintain your risk register, score and prioritise risks consistently, and produce the risk treatment plans that auditors expect to see. You leave with a scored risk register, documented treatment plans, and the evidence auditors expect to see.

Regulatory Compliance (NIS2, DORA, FCA)

Sector-specific regulation is growing in scope and enforcement. We help financial services firms meet FCA and DORA obligations, healthcare organisations meet data protection requirements including DSPT, and businesses in critical infrastructure comply with NIS2. You leave with a controls mapping, gap remediation plan, and a regulator-ready evidence pack.

Audit Preparation & Readiness Reviews

An external audit should never be a surprise. We run pre-audit readiness reviews that replicate the assessor's process, interviewing staff, reviewing evidence, testing controls, and identifying anything that would result in a finding. We then work with you to close issues before the auditor arrives. You leave with closed gaps, a clean evidence package, and your team prepared for every stage of the assessor's process.

Penetration Testing & Vulnerability Assessments

Many compliance frameworks require evidence of regular penetration testing. We scope, manage, and interpret penetration testing engagements across network, application, and social engineering vectors, working with trusted specialist testers. You get risk-rated findings in both technical and executive formats, with a prioritised remediation plan your team can act on.

Internal IT & Security Audits

An internal audit by an independent team is one of the most effective ways to find gaps before regulators or attackers do. We conduct structured audits of your IT controls, access management, configuration baselines, patch status, and operational procedures, producing a structured findings report with risk-rated, prioritised recommendations your team can act on immediately.

Policy & Procedure Development

Compliance lives and dies on documentation. We write, review, and update the full policy suite that frameworks require: information security policy, acceptable use, access control, incident response, business continuity, data retention, and more. You leave with a complete policy suite your staff will read and your auditors will accept without query.

Supplier & Third-Party Compliance

Your compliance obligations don't stop at your boundary. We help you assess and manage third-party compliance risk, reviewing supplier security questionnaires, auditing critical vendors, and drafting data processing agreements. You leave with a supplier assurance programme, a third-party risk register, and reviewed DPAs in place.

Continuous Compliance Monitoring

Achieving compliance is only half the challenge. Maintaining it is where most organisations struggle. We put in place the ongoing monitoring, evidence collection cadence, and management reporting that keeps your compliance posture current between audits. You get a compliance posture report, a populated evidence library, and board-ready dashboards showing your status at any point in the cycle.

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