Compliance Certification Readiness

    From gap analysis to certified, and staying certified

    Brandywine Consulting Partners guides organizations through security and privacy certification: SOC 2, HITRUST CSF, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 42001, HIPAA, GDPR, PCI DSS, NIST AI RMF, MVSP, APRA CPS 230 and US state privacy laws. We analyze your systems to identify the changes each requirement demands, implement them with your team, prepare evidence and manage submission with your independent audit partner, then set up monitoring and alerting so new changes or risks do not put your certification at risk.

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    What We Do

    Service overview and the core capabilities BCP brings to every compliance certification readiness engagement.

    Systems and architecture analysis to identify changes required by each control
    Gap assessment and remediation roadmap mapped across multiple frameworks
    Hands-on remediation: access, logging, encryption, change management, vendor risk
    Policy, procedure and evidence preparation for auditor review
    Submission management and coordination with independent auditors and HITRUST assessors
    Continuous controls monitoring and alerting to maintain certification between audits

    Key Benefits

    Changes, not just checklists

    We change the systems that fail a control, instead of only reporting that they fail.

    One control set, many frameworks

    Evidence and controls are cross-mapped so SOC 2, HITRUST, ISO 27001 and HIPAA work is done once.

    Certification you keep

    Monitoring and alerting surface drift and new risks before your next audit or surveillance review.

    A practical guide to SOC 2, HITRUST and ISO 27001 readiness

    Certification is not a document exercise. Auditors test whether your systems actually behave the way your policies say. Here is how BCP takes an organization from first assessment to certification, and keeps it there.

    How BCP gets you certified

    Every engagement follows the same four stages, scaled to the frameworks in scope:

    • Systems analysis: we review architecture, cloud configuration, identity, logging, data flows and vendors to find exactly what must change for each requirement
    • Remediation: we make or guide those changes with your engineers, and write the policies and procedures that match how you really operate
    • Submission: we assemble evidence, run a readiness review, and work alongside your independent auditor or HITRUST assessor through fieldwork and submission
    • Monitoring: we set up continuous controls monitoring and alerting so system changes, new vendors or emerging risks are caught before they threaten certification

    SOC 2 Type I vs Type II

    A SOC 2 Type I report says your controls were designed appropriately at one point in time. A Type II report says they operated effectively over an observation period, usually 3 to 12 months. Many organizations start with Type I to unblock sales, then move to Type II, which most enterprise buyers ultimately expect.

    HITRUST e1, i1 and r2

    HITRUST offers three validated assessments of increasing depth: e1 covers essential cybersecurity hygiene, i1 adds leading practices against current threats, and r2 is a risk-based assessment tailored to your organization and is the level many health systems require of vendors. We help you choose the right level and build toward the next one.

    Frameworks BCP has supported

    SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, HITRUST and the privacy frameworks share most of their underlying controls. BCP builds one control set and maps it across every framework in scope, so adding ISO 27001 or ISO 42001 to an existing SOC 2 program reuses work instead of repeating it. These are the frameworks BCP has supported clients through:

    • Security: SOC 2 Type I and Type II, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27017, HITRUST CSF, PCI DSS, MVSP
    • Privacy and health: HIPAA, GDPR, US state privacy laws
    • AI: ISO/IEC 42001, NIST AI RMF
    • Operational resilience: APRA CPS 230

    Clients enabled to achieve accreditation

    BCP has been through accreditation ourselves and has successfully enabled clients to achieve accreditation across the frameworks above. Client names, testimonials and audit results are proprietary to each client, so we do not publish them.

    What we do commit to is the path: we analyze your systems, make the changes each requirement demands, prepare the evidence, and support your work with the independent auditor, HITRUST assessor or auditing vendor your organization is required to use through submission and beyond.

    Where BCP fits in a certification program

    Automation tools collect evidence and monitor controls well. They cannot redesign a system that fails a control, decide how a requirement applies to your architecture, or sit with you through auditor questions. BCP does that work: we analyze, remediate, evidence and submit, and we operate inside whatever automation you already run or help you choose one. A BCP team member holds an individual HITRUST CSF credential.

    Related reading

    Representative Use Cases

    • First SOC 2 Type I, then Type II, for a healthcare SaaS vendor facing enterprise procurement
    • HITRUST e1 or i1 readiness ahead of a health system contract
    • Adding ISO 27001 to an existing SOC 2 program without duplicating evidence
    • Remediating HIPAA Security Rule gaps found in a risk analysis
    • Ongoing monitoring and alerting to keep certifications current between audits

    Frequently Asked Questions

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    What does BCP do in a SOC 2 or HITRUST readiness engagement?

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    Is BCP an auditor?

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    Which frameworks does BCP support?

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    How long does SOC 2 readiness take?

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    Which HITRUST assessment do we need: e1, i1 or r2?

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    Do we need a compliance automation platform if we work with BCP?

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    Has BCP taken clients through accreditation?

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    How do you keep us certified after the audit?

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