Experience in the sectors where the stakes are highest

Regulated industries share a pattern. The rules are written broadly, the auditors interpret them narrowly, and the gap between those two is filled by whoever knows the sector. A community bank's examiner and a health center's reviewer are asking versions of the same control question and will not accept the same answer. We work in the sectors below closely enough to know which version applies, which shortens the part of an engagement you would otherwise pay us to spend learning your business.

• Financial Services and Banking

  The examination window is on the calendar and your last report left open items that were supposed to be closed by now. You are reasonably sure they aren't.

• Manufacturing and Distribution

  A controller on the plant floor runs an operating system the vendor stopped supporting years ago, and replacing it means scheduling downtime nobody will approve. Meanwhile your largest customer just sent a security questionnaire.

• Government and Public Sector

  The system was procured correctly, implemented on schedule, and is used by roughly half the staff it was bought for. The next council or board meeting will ask about the other half.

• Construction and Property Management

  Field crews track work on paper or in a phone, the office rekeys it days later, and the margin on a job is only clear once it is too late to do anything about it.

• Healthcare Operations and Technology

  Your last security risk analysis was done during an electronic health record implementation and has not been touched since. The rule requires it to be current, and a breach investigation starts by asking for it.

• Defense Contractors (CMMC)

  A solicitation you have won for years now carries a cybersecurity requirement, and your options are to meet it, subcontract around it, or stop bidding.