Assessment

Comprehensive gap analysis against your target framework. We document what you have, what you are missing, and what needs to change.

Implementation

Deploy the technical controls, policies, and procedures required by the framework. We handle the configuration so nothing falls through the cracks.

Maintenance

Ongoing monitoring, log collection, and control validation. Compliance requirements evolve, and your controls need to evolve with them.

Audit Support

Evidence compilation, documentation preparation, and direct support during assessor interviews. We stand beside you through the audit process.

Who Needs It

Healthcare providers, health plans, healthcare clearinghouses, and their business associates. If your organization touches protected health information in any capacity, HIPAA applies to you.

What Is Required

Administrative, physical, and technical safeguards for electronic PHI. This includes access controls, audit logging, encryption, workforce training, risk assessments, business associate agreements, and a documented incident response plan. You must be able to demonstrate compliance at any time.

How AshtonTek Helps

We conduct a thorough risk assessment to identify gaps, deploy technical controls including encryption, access management, and audit logging, establish policies and procedures, configure SIEM monitoring for PHI access, and prepare your organization for OCR audits with complete documentation packages.

Timeline to Readiness

3 to 6 months for most small and mid-sized healthcare organizations, depending on current security posture and the complexity of your PHI workflows.

Who Needs It

Any business that accepts, stores, processes, or transmits credit card data. This applies whether you process ten transactions a month or ten thousand. Your merchant level determines the specific validation requirements.

What Is Required

Twelve core requirements organized into six control objectives: build and maintain a secure network, protect cardholder data, maintain a vulnerability management program, implement strong access controls, regularly monitor and test networks, and maintain an information security policy.

How AshtonTek Helps

We scope your cardholder data environment to minimize what is in scope, deploy network segmentation, implement encryption and tokenization, configure firewalls and access controls to PCI standards, run vulnerability scans, and prepare your Self-Assessment Questionnaire or support your QSA assessment.

Timeline to Readiness

2 to 4 months for most organizations at SAQ levels. Larger environments requiring a Report on Compliance may take 4 to 8 months depending on scope and existing controls.

Who Needs It

SaaS companies, managed service providers, data processors, and any service organization whose enterprise clients require proof that their data is handled securely. SOC 2 reports are increasingly table stakes for closing B2B deals.

What Is Required

Controls mapped to the Trust Services Criteria: security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy. A Type I report evaluates control design at a point in time. A Type II report evaluates control effectiveness over a minimum observation period, typically 6 to 12 months.

How AshtonTek Helps

We help you define the scope and applicable trust criteria, build and document your control framework, deploy monitoring and evidence collection tools, conduct readiness assessments before the formal audit, and support you through the auditor engagement with organized evidence packages.

Timeline to Readiness

3 to 5 months to achieve Type I readiness. An additional 6 to 12 months of evidence collection is required before a Type II audit can be completed. Planning early is essential.

Who Needs It

Any organization in the Defense Industrial Base that handles Controlled Unclassified Information or Federal Contract Information. This includes prime contractors and their entire supply chain. Without CMMC certification, you cannot bid on or maintain DoD contracts.

What Is Required

CMMC 2.0 defines three levels. Level 1 requires 17 basic cyber hygiene practices. Level 2 aligns with the 110 controls in NIST SP 800-171 and requires third-party assessment. Level 3 adds additional controls from NIST SP 800-172 for the most sensitive programs.

How AshtonTek Helps

We assess your current NIST 800-171 score, build a System Security Plan and Plan of Action and Milestones, deploy compliant infrastructure including encrypted enclaves for CUI, implement required access controls and monitoring, and prepare you for the C3PAO assessment with complete evidence documentation.

Timeline to Readiness

6 to 12 months for Level 2 readiness, depending on your starting point. Organizations starting from scratch should plan for the longer end. Level 1 self-assessment readiness can often be achieved in 2 to 3 months.

Average cost of a data breach in 2023, according to IBM. Non-compliant organizations pay significantly more.

Monthly PCI non-compliance fines assessed by payment brands. These compound until compliance is achieved.

HIPAA breach notification deadline. Miss it, and you face additional penalties on top of the breach itself.

Minimum SOC 2 Type II evidence collection period. You cannot rush this. Start planning now.