The Audit Isn't the Goal. Not Failing One Is.
Compliance advisory for Dallas–Fort Worth businesses under HIPAA, PCI, SOC 2, Texas SB 2610, or NIST 800-171. We tell you what you actually need to do — and then help you do it, not just document that you thought about it.
Most "Compliance" Is Just Paperwork.
There's a version of compliance that generates PDFs, policies, and checklists — and doesn't change what actually runs on your network. That's the version most MSPs sell, because it's cheap to deliver and nobody notices until an incident.
Then the incident happens. The insurance carrier asks for evidence. The auditor asks for evidence. The plaintiff's attorney asks for evidence. And your "compliance" turns out to have been a folder of Word documents that don't match your actual environment.
Real compliance is the boring, unglamorous work of making your written policies match your live systems — every user, every endpoint, every backup — and keeping them matched. That's what we do.
Paperwork compliance
- Policies written once, never updated
- Controls documented, not enforced
- Fails on first real audit question
- Insurance claim denied at loss time
48 Technologies compliance
48 Technologies compliance- Policies match live configuration
- Controls enforced by tooling, not honor
- Evidence pack ready before auditor asks
- Insurance and safe-harbor defensible
The Compliance Landscape, Untangled.
Most DFW businesses are subject to two or three frameworks at once. We map them together so you don't run three separate programs solving the same problem.
HIPAA & healthcare
- Covered-entity and business-associate scoping
- Risk analysis on live systems
- BAA program and vendor tracking
- Breach-notification readiness
PCI DSS
- Scope reduction (tokenization, P2PE)
- SAQ vs. ROC decision
- Quarterly ASV scan coordination
- Merchant-bank evidence pack
SOC 2 (Type I & II)
- Trust-services criteria selection
- Control mapping to your stack
- Auditor selection & liaison
- Continuous evidence collection
Texas SB 2610 & NIST
- Safe-harbor framework alignment
- NIST CSF or 800-171 gap analysis
- Documented incident-response plan
- Board-ready posture report
From "What Are We Even Doing?" to Audit-Ready.
Most engagements start with the same question: what are we actually subject to, and where are we exposed? The first 90 days answer both — and start closing the gap.
One page per framework, one owner per control.
Which frameworks apply. Which controls overlap. Which existing evidence still counts. You get a written compliance map so nobody wonders what's in scope.
- Framework applicability review
- Control overlap mapping
- Existing evidence inventory
- Written compliance map
Live-system evidence — not a survey.
Not "do you have MFA?" — a list of accounts that don't have MFA. Not "is data encrypted?" — a list of endpoints without disk encryption. Real gaps, in writing.
- Tenant & endpoint configuration audit
- Account-level MFA & privilege review
- Backup & retention verification
- Written gap register with priorities
Close the gaps. Collect the evidence.
We close the priority gaps ourselves or coordinate with your MSP. Every closure produces an evidence artifact — a screenshot, a log excerpt, a policy signed by the owner. Ready for the auditor before they arrive.
- Priority control remediation
- Evidence collection at each step
- Signed policies matched to configs
- Assessor-ready evidence binder
Framework-Sized, Not Company-Sized.
Compliance work scales with the framework, not the company. A 30-person HIPAA business and a 200-person HIPAA business have similar scope. We price on the framework side. Most single-framework engagements run $12,000–$28,000 for a full gap-to-evidence cycle. Add-on frameworks are discounted because control overlap does real work — SOC 2 often satisfies 60% of HIPAA. Ongoing maintenance retainers run $1,500–$4,500/mo depending on how many frameworks you're maintaining.
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1. 1. Frameworks in scopeOne framework or four. Overlap between frameworks does real work — bundled engagements are meaningfully cheaper than sequential ones.
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2. 2. Environment complexityCloud-only is different from mixed on-prem. Third-party vendors and BAAs multiply the work. We measure the actual environment, not headcount.
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3. 3. Existing evidence maturityA tenant with strong Microsoft 365 hygiene needs less remediation than one starting from defaults. We credit what's already in place.
DIY Compliance vs. 48 Technologies vs. Big-Four Audit Firm
Three ways to get compliant. Only one of them is priced right for a 25–200 employee DFW business and grounded in your actual environment.
DIY / Template Compliance
- Policies don't match live systems
- No evidence collection process
- First real audit exposes gaps
- Insurance carrier disputes claim
- Nobody owns it day-to-day
- Fine until someone actually checks
48 Technologies Compliance
- Evidence tied to live configuration
- Multi-framework mapping — no duplication
- Live C3PAO CMMC L2 client on the books
- Insurance & safe-harbor defensible
- Retainer keeps it maintained
- One vendor for advisory + remediation
Big-Four Audit Firm
- $80K–$250K minimum engagement
- Advisory-only — you still need to execute
- Handoff gap between advisory and MSP
- 12+ month timeline to first audit
- Optimized for enterprise scale
- Great — once you're 500+ people
Compliance isn't a checkbox — it's the shape of the day-to-day. If the policy says one thing and the network does another, the policy is fiction. My job is to make sure they match.
Audit Coming? Insurance Renewal? Let's Look at Your Real Posture.
30 minutes on the phone. Tell us which framework has your attention. We'll tell you where the gaps live before somebody else finds them.