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Advisory that’s built on audit experience.

Whether you’re building for the first time, expanding to a new framework, or maintaining compliance between audits, Aprio’s advisors use their assessment experience across SOC, ISO, CMMC, PCI DSS, HITRUST, and FedRAMP to help you build compliance foundations that last. Talk to a Specialist

Know where you stand. 

Build what you need.

Walk into your assessment ready.

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Reach and maintain preparedness with Aprio’s compliance advisory

Advisory is where compliance programs get built. Not just documented for the audit, but operationalized to continuously monitor controls and run without ongoing consultant support. 

What makes Aprio different is where our advice comes from: advisors with experience across SOC, ISO, CMMC, PCI DSS, HITRUST, and FedRAMP.  Whether we’re doing a gap assessment, implementing a framework, or providing ongoing support, we know what holds up and what falls apart because we’ve seen it from both sides. And because advisory and assessments are kept independent, the guidance you get is focused entirely on getting you ready. 

The result is a compliance program your team can fully own and operate, one that’s built to prepare you for certification and structured to sustain compliance well beyond it. And if you’d rather outsource the headache of compliance so your team can focus on growing the business, Aprio also offers Managed Security Compliance with the competent team, tools, and experience to manage your program.

How We Work

Across any framework, our advisory approach includes:

  • Gap Assessment

    A diagnostic evaluation of your current security program against a target framework. Identifies what needs to be built, remediated, or documented before you can certify.

  • Readiness Assessment

    A formal pre-audit review that simulates the audit experience and tells you where you stand before the assessor arrives.

  • Program Implementation

    A full compliance program build for organizations starting from scratch or expanding to a new framework. Covers control design, documentation structure, and the operational processes that make a compliance program run.

  • Policy & Procedure Development

    Drafting the documented controls, policies, and procedures your auditor will test. Covers the full documentation layer a compliance program requires, from security policies to operational procedures.

  • Audit Preparation

    Hands-on support to get evidence organized, controls operating consistently, and your internal team ready for the formal audit.

  • Managed Cybersecurity Compliance Services

    An ongoing advisory partnership for organizations that need continuous compliance support between audit cycles. Covers program maintenance, monitoring, and strategic guidance.

Framework Tracks

We also offer specialized, tailored advisory for specific certifications or regulations, including:

  • SOC Advisory

    Program setup for control design and identification for SOC 1 and SOC 2 reports. Includes readiness and gap assessments, control implementation, and audit facilitation with GRC tool setup and implementation. 

  • ISO Advisory

    Program setup, implementation, and internal audit support for organizations pursuing or maintaining ISO certification. Covers ISMS specific-service, management system design, risk assessment, control implementation, and audit direction and facilitation.

  • PCI DSS Advisory

    Specialized QSA-led advisory for service providers and merchants. Covers scope reduction, gap assessments against PCI DSS v4.0.1, remediation planning, pre-assessment preparation, penetration testing, segmentation testing, and PCI ASV scanning.

  • CMMC Readiness & Advisory

    Specialized advisory for defense contractors in the Defense Industrial Base. Covers gap assessments against NIST 800-171, remediation planning, SSP development, and pre-assessment preparation.

  • FedRAMP & GovRAMP Advisory

    Advisory support for cloud service providers entering the federal marketplace or looking to transition to 20x while maintaining existing authorizations. Includes consulting support to modernize cloud security packages for US government consumption, certification, and authorization.

  • NIST 800-53 / RMF / FISMA Support

    Advisory for organizations building a security program compliant with NIST 800-53 for RMF, FISMA, or federal-adjacent purposes. Spans controls implementation, documentation development, and security posture maintenance.

  • Penetration Testing

    Independent technical testing that validates your security controls operate as documented. Required by several frameworks and a meaningful signal to any assessor that your controls are real.

  • HITRUST Advisory

    Program setup for scoping, gap assessment, remediation, policy and procedure development and on-going program monitoring. We focus on scoping HITRUST and identification of the right assessment so you don’t do more than is required by your customers.

  • SOX Compliance Advisory

    Establish scalable, effective processes that streamline internal controls, reduce compliance burdens, and enhance your overall governance.

The Two Phases of Compliance

Your Phase

Preparation

You can control the speed of your phase by understanding what an assessor needs, documenting it correctly, and knowing how to operate your controls consistently. The better organized your evidence is, the faster the assessor can move and the faster the certificate can be issued.

Using GRC tools or automations can further accelerate the process, making it easier to assemble everything the assessor needs in one place.

Aprio's Phase

The Audit

Once your compliance program is ready for analysis, Aprio’s team goes to work.

Our accredited assessors connect directly to your existing GRC tools or automation environments to speed up the process of validating evidence, testing controls against frameworks like SOC 2, CMMC, FedRAMP, ISO, PCI DSS, and HITRUST, and delivering the certification or report that your customers, partners, and regulators require.

Readiness doesn’t happen by accident.

Here’s how Aprio builds it:

An Auditor’s Perspective

After thousands of assessments, we know what “audit ready” looks like. We know what assessors  look for, what documentation holds up under scrutiny, and what a compliance program needs to do to meet those high standards.

Cross-Framework Visibility

Aprio maps controls at the evidence level, not just the criteria level. We identify which controls can satisfy requirements for additional frameworks, catching the nuances that software tools miss.

A Program You Can Own

We design every compliance program to be understood and operated by the team that actually has to manage it. We’ll train and equip your people on how it works, why it’s structured the way it is, and how to keep it running.

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Tell us where your compliance program stands and what you’re working toward. Whether you need a focused gap assessment or an ongoing advisory partner, Aprio will map out what comes next. Talk to a Specialist