Governance,
Risk & Compliance
Build compliance into the way your organization operates.
Cybersecurity and compliance cannot be solved by completing a questionnaire once a year.
Organizations increasingly face requirements from regulators, customers, insurance carriers, funders and grantmakers, business partners, and government contracts. Meeting those requirements takes more than technology. It requires documented controls, policies, evidence, accountability, risk management, and ongoing remediation.
Frontline helps organizations build practical Governance, Risk & Compliance programs designed to move from assessment to readiness, and to stay there.
Framework readiness and alignment
Readiness and alignment, not certification.
Where formal certification or an independent third-party assessment is required, Frontline can help prepare the environment, documentation, and supporting evidence for the appropriate assessor.
Frontline can assist organizations working toward or aligning with:
- CMMC Level 2
- NIST SP 800-171
- NIST SP 800-53
- NIST Cybersecurity Framework
- NIST AI Risk Management Framework
- HIPAA Security requirements
- CIS Controls
- Customer, vendor, and funder security requirements
- Cyber-insurance security requirements
- Internal security and governance standards
Understand where you stand
A program begins with an accurate picture of the environment.
We translate those findings into a prioritized path forward, not simply a list of deficiencies.
Frontline can perform:
- Cybersecurity and compliance assessments
- Control reviews
- Risk assessments
- Gap assessments
- Technical environment reviews
- Documentation reviews
- Policy reviews
- Evidence collection and validation
- Readiness assessments
Build the documentation behind the program
Controls have to be documented, implemented, and maintained.
Compliance requires more than having security controls in place. Organizations also need to demonstrate that their security and governance practices hold up over time.
Depending on the engagement, Frontline can assist with the development and maintenance of:
- System Security Plans (SSPs)
- Plans of Action & Milestones (POA&Ms)
- Written Information Security Programs (WISPs)
- Acceptable Use Policies
- Information Security Policies
- Access-control policies
- Incident-response policies
- Business continuity and recovery policies
- Vendor-management policies
- Data-handling policies
- Employee AI-use policies
- AI governance policies
- Onboarding and offboarding procedures
- Technology standards and runbooks
From finding the gap to fixing it
We don’t have to stop after telling you what is wrong.
This is an important difference in the Frontline model. When an assessment identifies technical deficiencies, Frontline can work with your organization to remediate them.
- Identity and access improvements
- Multifactor authentication
- Endpoint security
- Network segmentation
- Logging and monitoring
- Backup and recovery
- Cloud-security configuration
- Microsoft 365 security improvements
- Vulnerability remediation
- Device management
- Documentation and standardization
- Security tooling implementation
- Infrastructure modernization
Frontline brings decades of combined senior-level experience across MSP operations, cybersecurity, project management, systems engineering, infrastructure, and technology leadership. That allows governance decisions to be connected directly to the technical environment they are intended to protect.
An ongoing GRC operating model
Frontline approaches GRC as a continuous cycle.
Instead of rebuilding the compliance program before every audit, customer review, or renewal, organizations can maintain their documentation, evidence, risks, controls, and remediation plans throughout the year.
Assess
Document
Prioritize
Remediate
Validate
Govern
Improve
The cycle repeats. Readiness is maintained, not rebuilt.
What an ongoing GRC relationship can include:
- Governance and compliance platform management
- Risk-register maintenance
- Control tracking
- Evidence management
- Policy management
- POA&M management
- Remediation tracking
- Executive reporting
- Scheduled governance meetings
- Framework readiness reviews
- Security-policy updates
- Vendor-risk review
- AI-governance oversight
- Audit and assessor preparation
Ways to engage Frontline
Four ways this relationship works.
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Assessment & Readiness
Determine where you stand, identify gaps, and build a prioritized path forward.
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GRC as a Service
Ongoing management of governance, risk, controls, evidence, policies, remediation, and readiness.
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Compliance Remediation
Technical projects and engineering services designed to close identified security and compliance gaps.
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GRC + Fractional CIO
Connect compliance requirements to technology planning, budgeting, executive leadership, risk decisions, and long-term strategy.
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