SVC-AUD · Auditing & compliance
Independent assessment and attestation led by a CISA-certified auditor — gap assessments, readiness programs, and periodic auditing across SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001/27002, NIST CSF, PCI DSS, and CAIQ.
How we work
Before anyone audits anything, you need to know where you stand. We measure your current controls against the framework your clients or customers are asking about, produce the honest gap list, and build a remediation plan ordered by effort and impact. By the time the audit happens, there should be no surprises left in it.
Frameworks demand written policies; auditors check whether reality matches them. Because we've built and operated production systems for decades, the policies we write describe controls your team will keep running, not shelf-ware that fails its first audit.
Compliance decays: people leave, vendors change, controls drift. Periodic independent review keeps the attestation current and catches drift before a client's security review does.
Common questions
Increasingly, yes: not because a regulator requires it, but because corporate clients do. Outside counsel guidelines and vendor security reviews now routinely ask for SOC 2 or equivalent evidence of a security program. Firms that can answer with an independent assessment win work that firms with a blank questionnaire lose. Whether you need full SOC 2 attestation or a lighter framework alignment depends on who's asking, and we help you match the effort to the demand. See our guide to client security questionnaires.
In practice, yes. Enterprise procurement asks for a SOC 2 report the way it asks for a certificate of insurance, and many deals stall without one. Panthryx runs the readiness path for SaaS platforms: a gap assessment against the Trust Services Criteria, remediation planned around how your engineering team ships, policies your team will follow, and preparation for the formal audit itself. Done early, the report supports your sales process instead of stalling it.
A gap assessment is the private dress rehearsal: we measure your current state against the framework, list what's missing, and build the remediation plan. An audit is the formal, independent evaluation that produces documentation you can hand to clients, insurers, or investors. Most organizations run a gap assessment first, remediate, then audit. Going straight to audit usually just buys an expensive list of failures.
CISA (Certified Information Systems Auditor) is ISACA's credential for professionals who audit, control, and assure information systems. It matters because attestations are only as credible as the person signing them: an assessment from a certified auditor carries weight with the people who asked for it in the first place.
It depends on the framework and your starting point. A firm with hardened Microsoft 365, working policies, and access controls may be audit-ready in a few months; one starting from scratch typically needs six to twelve months for SOC 2 or ISO 27001. The gap assessment gives you the honest timeline before you commit to anything.
Getting started
A client questionnaire, an insurer's renewal form, an investor's diligence list. Bring us the actual requirement and we'll scope the shortest honest path to satisfying it.