Compliance Consulting
Built around control and coverage. Compliance isn’t a project you complete. It’s a posture you maintain. We help regulated organizations build and sustain it.
The Bar Keeps Moving. Your Posture Has to Keep Up.
Regulatory frameworks evolve, auditors raise the bar, and the controls that met the standard last year may not meet it today. For organizations in regulated industries, compliance isn’t a project you complete. It’s a posture you maintain.
Centaris helps regulated organizations build and sustain that posture. We bring deep knowledge of the frameworks governing your industry, the tools required to meet them, and the project management experience to keep complex engagements on track.
Every engagement starts with understanding where you stand today.
Two Levels of Compliance Consulting
Our team works in these environments daily. We know the requirements, the language, and what auditors and assessors are looking for. Choose the engagement model that matches your framework and certification requirements.
Gap analysis against your applicable framework
Identification and implementation of required security tools
Subscription-based access to the tools your framework requires
Managed IT Services to support ongoing compliance maintenance
Project management of third-party assessors and certification contributors
Implementation and management of required security tools and controls
Subscription-based managed services to support compliance requirements
Ongoing consulting as requirements evolve
Compliance and Security, Aligned From the Start
One of the most common mistakes regulated organizations make is treating compliance as a separate initiative from their broader security program. When that happens, you end up with two sets of tools, two sets of conversations, and gaps that live in between.
Centaris aligns your compliance requirements with your security posture from the start, so the controls you put in place for compliance also make your environment more secure, and vice versa.
It’s a more efficient path, and it produces a more defensible result.
Heard from the People We Serve
Centaris helped us navigate the assessment process without it consuming our entire IT team. They managed the pieces we couldn’t.
Compliance was always a stressor for us. Now it’s not.
We thought we were compliant until Centaris showed us where we weren’t. That alone was worth every penny.
Common Questions About Compliance Consulting
What does Centaris compliance consulting cover?
Assessment, remediation, documentation, and ongoing maintenance against the framework that applies to you. We map your current environment to the requirement, identify the gap, implement and manage the controls that close it, organize the evidence that those controls produce, and keep the posture current as your environment changes. For higher certification levels, we also project-manage the outside contributors an engagement requires.
Does Centaris certify our organization as compliant?
No. Certification under frameworks like CMMC Level 2 and TISAX AL 2 is performed by accredited independent assessment bodies, and Centaris is not one of them. We are not a C3PAO. Our role is readiness: getting your controls, configuration, and documentation to the point where an independent assessor can validate them, then coordinating that process so it stays on schedule. Keeping those roles separate is a requirement of the frameworks themselves and also what makes the result defensible.
How does Centaris support CMMC readiness?
By treating it as a scoping and evidence problem before it becomes an assessment problem. We define what falls inside your assessment boundary, evaluate current practices against the required controls, remediate the gaps, and build the documentation set that an assessor expects, including the system security plan and the supporting artifacts behind it. Level 1 permits self-assessment, and we support that directly. For Level 2 and above, we prepare you for the independent assessment and manage the contributors involved.
How does Centaris support HIPAA, CJIS, and TISAX?
The same way, adjusted to what each framework demands. HIPAA work centers on the Security Rule risk analysis, access controls, and safeguards around protected health information in healthcare environments. CJIS work focuses on access control, auditing, and personnel requirements for criminal justice information. TISAX work prepares automotive suppliers for the assessment level their customers require. In every case, we prepare and remediate, and the assessing body evaluates.
What does readiness preparation actually include?
Scoping, gap analysis, remediation, documentation, and a rehearsal of the questions you will be asked. That means confirming what is in scope, comparing current controls to the requirement, implementing what is missing, and organizing evidence so it can be produced on request rather than assembled under a deadline. Most of the delay in a failed assessment traces back to missing documentation rather than missing technology.
Can compliance work run alongside our existing IT and security program?
It should. Compliance controls and security controls are largely the same controls serving two purposes, and running them as separate initiatives produces duplicated tools and gaps between them. We build each control to satisfy both, whether your day-to-day operations are fully managed or co-managed with your internal team.
Start With Understanding Where You Stand
Before recommending a compliance path, we assess. We look at your current environment, your applicable framework, and the gap between the two, then outline a clear path forward.
If your organization operates in a regulated industry and you’re not certain where you stand, that’s exactly where we start.