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Information is More Valuable than Gold
Personal information is the most valuable commodity on Earth, and it's compounding daily!
Our mission is to protect your information and find value in it.
We bring both advisory expertise and assessment authority to every engagement.
What We Provide
Compliance Assurance
We help organizations achieve and maintain critical cybersecurity certifications and regulatory compliance across multiple frameworks, including:
Cybersecurity Standards: SCF (CAP, CORE, MADSS), ISO 27001, ISO 27701, ISO 42001, SOC 2, NIST CSF, NIST 800-171
Privacy Regulations: GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework
Financial Services: SEC & FINRA, GLBA
Our Approach: We provide comprehensive cybersecurity maturity assessments and compliance gap analyses for your security, privacy, and AI management systems. Unlike consultants who simply prepare you for an audit, we remain actively engaged throughout the entire certification process - from initial assessment through successful completion.
Why It Matters: The journey to compliance can feel overwhelming, with extensive documentation requirements and complex regulatory standards. However, these certifications deliver substantial value.
Compliance is not just a checkbox - it's a strategic business asset that builds trust, reduces risk, and drives long-term success.
Virtual Compliance Officer
Our Virtual Compliance Officer (VCO) program provides information security strategy, guidance, oversight, and the necessary work to build, implement, and manage compliance, all at a fraction of the cost of a full-time Chief Compliance Officer. As compliance and regulatory requirements continue to evolve, your VCO stays current on the latest changes, providing the most recent, critical information needed to make informed decisions.
Business Process Improvement: Great governance underpins successful companies. We bring order to chaos by identifying improvements in day-to-day business processes and ensuring the correct information is available to the right people when needed. Pinpointing risks and points of failure in the business process and providing the means to manage them will better prepare your organization for the unexpected.
Education and Ongoing Support: Knowledge and understanding are fundamental to the success of any system. Knowing the hows and whys of the system provides a robust platform. We believe that transferring our knowledge to your people while delivering our services offers maximum value to your business.
ADEPT Assessments
Leveraging our relationship with Ima Mirai and the ADEPT system, we perform assessments that reveal what siloed audits can't... the risks that live between frameworks.
Inside-out Cybersecurity (IoC): There are many reasons why cyber-attacks can happen to your business: inadvertent errors, lack of staff awareness, and security system weaknesses. Our inside-out approach to cybersecurity involves assessing and resolving issues that could compromise an organization’s ability to protect sensitive information.
Merger & Acquisition Support: Consider your total data/information picture as a story with multiple chapters. We expertly sort all the diverse corporate information to reveal hidden value, risks, synergies, and opportunities. The result is a significant and positive impact on the transaction value.
Zero Dark Data Day (ZD3)© 'Dark Data' is unstructured, uncategorized, and untapped data/information that is found in various company repositories and has been neglected by business and IT administrators in terms of its value. We remedy this through our methodology and implementation of our ZD3, which clarifies what you have, who has access to it, how it's being utilized (or not), and what it represents in terms of value (asset) and risk (liability).
“The team at Vigilant is “light years ahead of other people”… their audit preparation has basically “done our work for us.””