Compliance & Regulatory Advisory for ISO 27001, SOC 2, DORA and Beyond
When a customer demands a SOC 2 report, a tender requires ISO 27001, or a regulation such as DORA or NIS2 applies to your organization, compliance becomes a firm deadline with direct commercial consequences. Serving organizations across Europe, the US, the UK and Israel, VULNSEE clarifies which requirements apply, assesses your actual posture and guides you to audit readiness, without creating a paper program that collapses once the audit ends.
We evaluate operational controls across your environment, map requirements across frameworks so one control satisfies multiple obligations, and guide your teams from the initial gap analysis through external audit completion.
ISO 27001 and SOC 2 consulting includes scope definition, gap analysis against required criteria, risk assessments, operational policy drafting, and technical control implementation guidance. Advisors guide your teams through evidence collection, vendor reviews, pre-audit readiness testing and auditor walkthroughs, ensuring sustainable compliance operations that satisfy independent certification bodies, regulators and enterprise customer security reviews.
Most Compliance Programs Fail Between the Policy and the Audit
Writing policies is the easy part. The difficult part is proving that the policies reflect what your systems, people and suppliers actually do. Organizations typically struggle with:
Paper policies disconnected from reality
Documentation is copied from templates or written for auditors, creating controls that engineering and IT never actually operate.
Multiple frameworks, duplicate work
ISO 27001, SOC 2 and GDPR are treated as separate projects, forcing teams to answer the same questions and produce the same evidence three times.
Evidence panic before the audit
Controls were agreed months ago, but no one collected evidence along the way, turning the weeks before an external audit into emergency firefighting.
Lack of control ownership
Policies exist, but no one inside the organization knows who is responsible for access reviews, vendor assessments or log retention.
Compliance without actual security
The certificate is achieved, but the attack surface remains vulnerable because compliance was treated as documentation rather than risk reduction.
VULNSEE closes this gap by building compliance around your actual technology, workflows and evidence, ensuring your audit reflects real operational security.
Frameworks and Regulations We Guide You Through
We advise on and prepare organizations for the standards, certifications and regulatory regimes that shape technology and business today:
ISO/IEC 27001 & ISO Family
Information security management systems (ISMS). Scope definition, Statement of Applicability (SoA), risk assessment, Annex A control design, internal audit and Stage 1 & 2 audit preparation. Also supporting ISO 27701 (privacy), ISO 27017 (cloud) and ISO 27018 (cloud PII).
SOC 2 (Type I & Type II)
Trust Services Criteria readiness across Security, Availability, Confidentiality, Processing Integrity and Privacy. Control gap assessment, evidence-collection workflows, auditor selection support and observation-period management.
DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act)
ICT risk management framework, incident classification and reporting, digital operational resilience testing (including threat-led penetration testing requirements), third-party ICT risk oversight and information-sharing arrangements.
NIS2 Directive
Cybersecurity risk-management measures, supply-chain security, incident handling and reporting timelines (early warning within 24 hours), management accountability and supervisory-audit preparation for essential and important entities.
PCI DSS 4.0
Cardholder data environment (CDE) scoping, network segmentation validation, SAQ or ROC readiness, customized approach guidance and targeted testing for payment processors, merchants and service providers.
GDPR & Data Protection Regulations
Article 32 security of processing, Records of Processing Activities (RoPA), Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA), data-retention schedules, third-party processing agreements and cross-border transfer mechanisms.
Israeli Regulatory Frameworks
Rav Magen defense-sector cyber directives, Privacy Protection Law and Amendment 13 readiness (expanded enforcement, DPO requirements, technical security obligations), and Bank of Israel Directive 361 for financial and fintech institutions.
HIPAA & Healthcare Security
Security Rule compliance, Protected Health Information (PHI) access controls, audit controls, business associate agreement (BAA) review and technical safeguards for digital health and healthtech platforms.
NIST CSF & CIS Controls
Maturity assessments against NIST CSF 2.0 (Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, Recover) and implementation group (IG1 to IG3) alignment with CIS Critical Security Controls for structured roadmap development.
Facing a framework not listed here? We assess requirements against the specific regulation, standard or customer security schedule governing your contracts.
One Control Set, Multiple Obligations: Harmonized Compliance
Most organizations are subject to more than one framework. A B2B SaaS company typically needs SOC 2 for US enterprise sales, ISO 27001 for European tenders, and GDPR for data privacy. A fintech may face DORA, PCI DSS and local banking regulations simultaneously.
Managing each framework as a separate project multiplies cost, creates contradictory policies and overwhelms engineering teams. VULNSEE designs a unified control baseline:
Map Overlapping Controls
Access control, encryption, incident response and vendor management exist across almost every standard. We map them once so one implementation satisfies all applicable frameworks.
Identify Framework-Specific Deltas
We isolate the requirements unique to each regime, such as DORA's TLPT rules, PCI DSS's cardholder-data scoping or GDPR's DPIA triggers, so teams only do extra work where genuinely needed.
Single Source of Truth for Evidence
Evidence artifacts (access reviews, pen test reports, backup tests and risk registers) are structured once and tagged to each framework's controls, eliminating pre-audit collection scramble.
Sustainable Governance Cadence
We establish a recurring operational rhythm of quarterly reviews, annual testing and continuous monitoring. This keeps your organization audit-ready throughout the year rather than scrambling in the final weeks before certification.
"Compliance is an outcome of sound security. Build controls that protect the business, and compliance documentation follows naturally."
A Structured Path from Gap to External Audit
Every engagement follows a proven five-phase roadmap designed to reach audit readiness efficiently and without disrupting business operations:
Scoping & Applicability Assessment
We determine exactly which frameworks, regulations, organizational units, systems and data flows are in scope. This avoids over-scoping that adds unnecessary cost and prevents under-scoping that causes audit failure.
- Scope boundary definition.
- Applicability matrix across target frameworks.
- Stakeholder and control-owner mapping.
- Engagement roadmap and timeline.
Gap Assessment & Posture Evaluation
We evaluate your current policies, technical controls, evidence artifacts and operational practices against every requirement of the target frameworks.
- Comprehensive gap analysis report.
- Maturity scoring by control domain.
- Executive findings summary.
- Prioritized, risk-weighted remediation roadmap.
Control Design & Remediation Guidance
We work directly with your technology, engineering, HR, legal and operations teams to design, implement and document controls that are practical, sustainable and auditable.
- Tailored policy and procedure suite.
- Statement of Applicability (SoA) for ISO 27001.
- Control implementation runbooks.
- Evidence-collection requirements and templates.
Pre-Audit Verification & Mock Assessment
Before external auditors arrive, we test your control operation and evidence dossiers using the same methodology an accredited certification body or CPA firm will apply.
- Internal audit report (mandatory for ISO 27001).
- Audit evidence dossiers indexed to framework controls.
- Interview coaching for control owners.
- Pre-audit corrective-action list.
External Audit Support & Beyond
We support your teams during the actual external audit by participating in auditor walkthroughs, clarifying evidence presentation and helping resolve findings, then transition the program into ongoing governance.
- Audit defense support and debrief.
- Remediation guidance for any non-conformities.
- Annual compliance calendar.
- Handoff to internal teams or VULNSEE GRC/CISO as a Service.
Important Qualification: VULNSEE prepares organizations for certification and regulatory compliance, guides remediation and supports external audits. Formal ISO 27001 certificates are issued by accredited certification bodies; SOC 2 reports are issued by independent CPA firms; and regulatory approvals are granted by competent authorities. VULNSEE does not issue certificates or attestation reports, ensuring complete independence.
Why Organizations Choose VULNSEE for Compliance Advisory
Most compliance consultancies approach readiness from a legal or auditing perspective. VULNSEE is an offensive security and cybersecurity advisory firm:
Senior Offensive & Defensive Practitioners
Our compliance advisors have practical engineering, cloud security and offensive backgrounds. We understand how controls function in cloud environments, CI/CD pipelines and modern architectures, applying technical reality rather than theoretical checklists.
Evidence-Based, Not Checklist-Driven
We build the operational routines, automation and evidence-collection habits that satisfy auditors on day one and keep functioning on day 365, avoiding generic policy binders that gather dust.
Integrated Pentest, Cloud & Compliance
Because VULNSEE provides penetration testing, cloud security and risk assessments in-house, we validate the technical controls your compliance framework requires (from vulnerability management to segmentation testing) within a single engagement.
Pragmatic for High-Growth Engineering Teams
We design controls tailored for modern DevOps workflows, infrastructure as code and cloud-native environments, avoiding rigid IT procedures that slow engineering teams down.
Continuity Into Ongoing Operations
After the audit is complete, VULNSEE can maintain your compliance posture through our GRC as a Service, CISO as a Service or DPO as a Service models, ensuring readiness never degrades between assessment cycles.
Auditor-Tested Methodology
Our roadmaps, evidence dossiers and documentation structures have guided clients through audits by leading international certification bodies and Big Four accounting firms without major findings.
When Organizations Engage Us
Our compliance advisory engagements typically begin around one of these key milestones:
An Enterprise Deal or Tender Requires Certification
A key customer, RFP or partner requires SOC 2 Type II or ISO 27001 before signing, creating a firm commercial deadline for audit readiness.
A New Regulation Comes into Scope
DORA, NIS2, Israeli Amendment 13 or SEC cybersecurity disclosure rules apply to your organization, requiring a formal posture evaluation and remediation plan.
A Customer Security Review Revealed Deficiencies
An enterprise customer's vendor-risk assessment exposed gaps in access reviews, vendor management or incident response that must be resolved to protect the contract.
Expansion into Regulated Markets or Geographies
Entering European markets (GDPR/NIS2/DORA), US healthcare (HIPAA), payment processing (PCI DSS) or defense supply chains (Rav Magen) creates new compliance obligations.
A Failed or Painful Previous Audit
A prior audit resulted in findings, qualification notes or severe internal stress, indicating that the existing compliance program is not operating sustainably.
Preparation for M&A or Funding Due Diligence
Investors or acquirers are conducting cybersecurity due diligence, and leadership needs a verified, audit-ready compliance posture to protect valuation and deal speed.
What You Receive
Regulatory Applicability Assessment
Which laws, standards and contractual obligations apply, why, and to which parts of the organization.
Compliance Gap Analysis
Every gap mapped to the exact requirement and clause it affects, with evidence of the current state.
Cross-Framework Control Map
One integrated control set showing how each control satisfies multiple frameworks.
Maturity Scoring
A clear maturity score per domain to measure progress and communicate with leadership.
Risk-Based Remediation Roadmap
Prioritized actions, owners, effort estimates and a realistic timeline to audit.
Executive Readout & Audit Preparation
A leadership briefing, plus guidance on auditor selection, evidence preparation and audit-day readiness.
Who Is This Service For?
Ready to evaluate your posture?
Our advisors close the gap between regulatory obligation and operational reality.
What Changes After the Engagement
Clarity on What Applies
Leadership knows exactly what is mandatory and what is optional.
Gaps Found Before the Auditor Does
Deficiencies are closed internally, not discovered as nonconformities.
Less Duplicated Effort
One control set and one evidence base serve several frameworks.
A Realistic Path to Certification
A sequenced roadmap with owners and dates replaces last-minute audit pressure.
Faster Customer Approvals
Security questionnaires and due-diligence requests are answered with existing, consistent evidence.
Executive Visibility
Management sees readiness, risk and investment needs in business terms.
After readiness, many organizations continue with GRC as a Service to keep controls, evidence and risk management operating between audits, making the next audit a routine milestone rather than a disruptive project.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Know Where You Stand Before the Auditor Tells You.
Tell us which frameworks, customers or regulations are driving your timeline. We will define the applicable scope, assess your readiness and give you a realistic path to audit.
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