GRC Advisory Services

Build the Security Program Your Customers, Contracts, and Auditors Expect

We help small and mid-sized organizations review, build, and prepare their information security management system (ISMS). An ISMS brings together the people, responsibilities, policies, risk processes, and safeguards used to protect information. We work with your team to support customer requirements, contract obligations, and preparation for ISO/IEC 27001 certification, CMMC assessments, and NIST SP 800-171 reviews.

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Practical readiness support · Clear scope and deliverables · Built around your organization

The Offer

A Practical Path for Organizations With Limited GRC Support

Through our Review, Build, Prepare Framework, we review what already exists, help build what is missing, and prepare your organization for its certification audit or assessment. The work fits small and mid-sized organizations facing client, contract, or audit security requirements.

Why Organizations Call Us

The Requirement Usually Appears Before the Program Is Ready

A customer may send a security questionnaire your team cannot fully answer. A contract may require stronger documentation. A defense prime may ask about CMMC or NIST SP 800-171. A certification audit may be approaching.

Your team may already be doing important security work, but the work may be scattered, undocumented, or difficult to prove. We help turn it into an ISMS your team can manage, explain, and support with evidence.

Services

Choose the Service That Matches Where You Are

Start by understanding the gaps, build what is missing, or prepare for your certification audit or assessment. Engagement lengths are estimates and depend on your scope and how ready your organization is.

Service 01: Review the ISMS

Know What Is Missing and What to Address First

Fixed fee · Estimated one to two weeks

We compare your current program with ISO/IEC 27001 or NIST SP 800-171 requirements and show what is already in place, what is missing, and what to address first.

ISMS readiness review
Scope and asset review
Risk management review
Control and evidence gap assessment, including how you currently assess and monitor suppliers
Green, Amber, and Red scorecard, with the reason behind every rating
Prioritized readiness roadmap

Best when you need a clear starting point before committing to a larger project.

Service 02: Build the ISMS

Build the Missing Parts of Your Security Program

Estimated six to ten weeks · Scoped to your size and readiness

We work with your team to create the policies, risk processes, and evidence structures your ISMS needs.

ISMS implementation plan
Risk assessment and treatment plan
Statement of Applicability support: document which security controls apply to your organization, why they apply, and their implementation status
Policy and procedure development
Vendor risk process: how you assess, approve, and monitor your suppliers
Control implementation support and evidence organization

Best when you know what is missing and need help creating it.

Service 03: Prepare for Certification

Get Ready for Your Certification Audit or Assessment

Timing agreed in your proposal

For organizations with an ISMS in place, we prepare your team for an ISO/IEC 27001 certification audit or a CMMC assessment.

Internal audit support
Management review preparation
Corrective action tracking
Certification readiness report

Best when your ISMS is running and an audit or assessment is planned.

Optional add-on: Ongoing Vendor Reviews

Pricing and review schedule agreed in your proposal

For organizations with a vendor risk process in place, we review your critical suppliers on a set schedule: supplier security reviews including SOC 2 report checks, follow-up on earlier issues, updated vendor records for your auditor, and support answering customer questions about your suppliers.

Support for ISO/IEC 27001, CMMC, and NIST SP 800-171

Where requirements overlap, the same policies, risk processes, controls, and evidence can support more than one framework. We organize the work so your team maintains one program.

Why Work With Us

Practical Support Built Around What Your Team Can Maintain

The goal is a program your team can use, explain, and keep managing after the engagement ends.

Standards-aligned

The work is organized around the framework requirements and business obligations that apply to your organization.

Built with your team

The employees responsible for the program take part, so they understand the documents, decisions, and evidence.

Clear before work begins

You receive a written proposal explaining the scope, deliverables, schedule, price, and client responsibilities.

Who Leads the Work

Dr. Rose Shumba is a PECB Certified ISO/IEC 27001 Senior Lead Implementer and PECB Certified ISO/IEC 42001 Lead Implementer with more than 20 years in cybersecurity education. She holds a PhD in Computer Science and is a former director of a Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense designated by the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security.

About Dr. Rose

Who We Serve

For Organizations With Limited GRC Support

SaaS and technology companies For teams responding to enterprise customer security reviews and contract requirements.

Healthcare-adjacent organizations For organizations that need stronger security documentation and processes around sensitive information.

Defense subcontractors For subcontractors preparing for CMMC and NIST SP 800-171 requirements.

Small and mid-sized businesses For growing companies that need a structured security program employees can follow and maintain.

How We Work

A Clear Process From the First Call to the Final Deliverables

Before work begins, you will know what is included, what it costs, what your team provides, and what you will receive.

Step 01: Readiness call You explain the requirement your organization is facing, and we discuss whether our services fit your needs.

Step 02: Proposal You receive a written scope with deliverables, schedule, price, and client responsibilities.

Step 03: Deliver the agreed work We carry out the review, implementation support, or certification preparation defined in your proposal.

Step 04: Review results and next steps We walk your team through the findings, completed work, remaining actions, and responsibilities.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Questions Organizations Often Ask Before Starting

Who issues the ISO/IEC 27001 certificate or conducts a CMMC assessment?

We provide readiness and advisory services. Accredited certification bodies conduct ISO/IEC 27001 certification audits and issue the certificate. Authorized assessment organizations conduct formal CMMC assessments. We prepare your organization's program, documentation, and evidence for them.

Which service should we start with?

Start with Review the ISMS when you are unsure what is missing. Choose Build the ISMS when the gaps are already known. Choose Prepare for Certification when your ISMS is running and an audit or assessment is planned.

Can the same work support more than one framework?

Often, yes. Where requirements overlap, the same risk processes, policies, controls, and evidence can support ISO/IEC 27001, CMMC, and NIST SP 800-171 readiness.

How is pricing determined?

Pricing depends on the selected service, organization size, current state, framework, systems, locations, and agreed deliverables. The proposal states the price before work begins.

What will our team need to provide?

Your team may need to provide existing policies, system information, contracts, questionnaires, evidence records, and access to the employees responsible for security and compliance.

Start With a Conversation

Build the Security Program Your Organization Can Maintain and Explain

Tell us what your client, contract, auditor, or prime contractor is asking for. We will discuss your current situation and the next practical step.