Compliance Assessment Services
Gap Analysis and Remediation
With 34 years in IT, ScienceSoft helps enterprises and software vendors improve their compliance with major cybersecurity and quality assurance standards.
Compliance assessment helps reveal and close gaps in a company’s policies, procedures, software, and IT infrastructure that fall under industry-specific or commonly applicable regulations. Compliance assessment may include:
- Reviewing the security and/or quality assurance policies and procedures.
- Security testing of software and/or IT networks.
- Evaluating the employees’ awareness of applicable standards and regulations.
- Remediation aid to close compliance gaps.
Standards We Work With and Companies We Serve
ScienceSoft helps enterprises in 30+ industries check and improve their compliance with mandatory and voluntary regulations and standards. To software vendors, we offer the evaluation of their products, development processes, and IT environments against quality and security standards.
ISO 9001 (voluntary)
For software product companies and other IT businesses aiming to establish mature quality management systems.
ISO 27001 (voluntary)
For companies that need to protect sensitive data they collect, store, process or transmit, including:
- IT companies.
- Businesses in the financial industry.
- Government agencies.
- Telecom service providers, etc.
ISO 13485:2016 (voluntary)
For companies interested in establishing quality management systems for designing, producing, installing and servicing medical devices:
- Medical device manufacturers.
- Healthcare software vendors.
HIPAA (mandatory)
For companies involved in storing, processing or transmitting personal health information:
- Healthcare providers.
- Healthcare companies’ business associates.
- Medical device manufacturers.
- Healthcare software vendors.
PCI DSS (mandatory)
For businesses accepting payment cards of American Express, Discover, JCB, MasterCard and Visa or directly involved in the processing, storage, or transmission of cardholder data:
- Merchants.
- Service providers.
PCI Software Security Framework (voluntary)
For software product companies delivering payment solutions.
GDPR (mandatory)
For companies involved in collecting, storing, processing and transmitting personal data of EU residents:
- Any entity dealing with personal data of EU residents in the course of their business activities.
- Software vendors, delivering software that will operate with EU residents’ personal data.
NIST Security Framework (mandatory)
For US federal agencies and their contractors:
- Businesses that provide services to the federal agencies.
- Vendors developing software products for the federal agencies.
NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation (mandatory)
For all the DFS-regulated entities operating in New York state and their third-party service providers.
- Banking institutions.
- Insurance providers.
- Other financial services companies.
SOC 2 (voluntary)
For any service providers that want to ensure and prove their customers’ data security, including:
- Cloud services providers.
- SaaS companies.
- Managed IT services providers
- Financial services companies.
- Government agencies, etc.
Compliance scope outline
- Defining mandatory standards and voluntary standards that will bring competitive advantage to a business or software product.
- Outlining the compliance requirements applicable to the company’s business activities or software specifics.
- Identifying the components of the IT environment and the staff members that the compliance requirements apply to.
Reviewing policies and procedures on security and quality management
- Scrutinizing the existing policies, procedures, processes.
- Evaluating how well the documented policies and procedures are integrated in the routine business activities.
Assessing the employees' compliance awareness
- Interviewing the staff members on the applicable standards and regulations.
- Applying social engineering to check the employees’ security awareness.
- Reviewing the training process and materials.
Security testing of the IT infrastructure and software
- Vulnerability assessment.
- Black box, white box, gray box penetration testing.
- Software architecture and source code review.
Compliance gap analysis
- Compliance risk assessment based on the detected compliance gaps.
- Prioritizing the detected compliance gaps by their criticality.
Developing a remediation plan to achieve compliance
- Advising on how to eliminate the gaps in policies and procedures for assured compliance with the required standards.
- Recommendations for promoting compliance awareness of the staff.
- Suggesting measures to eliminate vulnerabilities in software and IT infrastructure.
ScienceSoft brings in expertise in cybersecurity, software development and IT consulting to perform any required remediation activities. They may include:
For all companies
- Designing a secure network architecture.
- Installing and configuring firewalls, anti-malware, IDS/IPS.
- Ensuring email security.
- Deploying a SIEM solution to monitor user activity within the network.
- Building a quality management system.
Specific for software vendors
- Installing and configuring security components in the development infrastructure.
- Designing secure and efficient software architecture.
- Implementing software features required by the applicable standards.
Compliance Assessment Service Deliverables
ScienceSoft’s compliance team prepares a series of reports to offer a clear insight into the assessment process and discovered incompliances. To address them, we deliver a roadmap on compliance breach remediation. Depending on a specific project, we can provide:
Assessment deliverables
- Compliance scope report (contains the inventory of data, software, and network components subject to compliance).
- Compliance risk report.
- Report on the existing gaps in the IT policies and procedures.
- Report on the staff’s compliance awareness.
- Report on the state of compliance training materials.
- Network configuration diagrams.
- Software architecture and source code review reports.
- Penetration testing and VA reports describing and prioritizing the vulnerabilities that lead to incompliance.
Recommendation deliverables
- Recommendations on scope reduction: limiting the number of IT assets or employees with access to sensitive data, etc.
- Compliance risk mitigation plan.
- Recommendations on improving policies and procedures.
- Secure network architecture design.
- Recommendations on software features required by applicable standards.
- Recommendations on training process and materials to raise the staff’s compliance awareness.
- Recommendations on corrective measures needed to remediate the revealed vulnerabilities.
Our Customers Say
"ScienceSoft provided an excellent level of service in:
- Code assessment of our existing healthcare application for life science research;
- Consulting on best practices and standards in healthcare and life science software development;
- Research on medical devices (functionality, safety classes, registration, etc.) to be used in the future project;
- Preparation activities for a planned platform development project: architecture planning, verification planning, software development lifecycle processes, risk management processes.
They bring top quality talents and deep knowledge of IT technologies and approaches in accordance with ISO13485 and IEC62304 standards."
Sergey Shleev, Prof. Dr. Department of Biomedical Science, Malmo University
Why Choose ScienceSoft
- In IT since 1989.
- 20 years in information security services.
- 15 years in establishing effective quality management systems.
- Hands-on experience with regulatory standards for 10+ industries, including healthcare, banking, insurance, retail, manufacturing, and professional services.
- Certified Internal Auditors for ISO 9001, 13485, 27001 on the team.
- Certified Ethical Hackers on board, recognized as Top Penetration Testing Company by Clutch.
- A top HIPAA consulting provider in 2022, according to Atlantic.net.
- For the second straight year, ScienceSoft USA Corporation is listed among The Americas’ Fastest-Growing Companies by the Financial Times.
Challenge #1
It may be hard to find a compliance assessment vendor well versed in several standards applying for a specific industry or software type.
Challenge #2
A high-level assessment of compliance gaps is just one little step — it is crucial to competently remediate them.
Compliance assessment
We offer one-time or continuous compliance assessment to check how well your company or software meets the required cybersecurity or quality assurance standards.
Compliance assessment and remediation advice
If we detect compliance gaps, we provide remediation guidance to manage compliance risks and ensure your company or software meets the applicable standards.
Compliance assessment and breach remediation
Our compliance consultants work together with cybersecurity experts and software engineers to remediate any compliance breaches detected during the compliance assessment.
Why Does Compliance Matter?
Businesses that keep up with established security and quality assurance standards win over their competitors by:
Building mature quality management and IT security management systems |
Gaining customers’ trust as a secure and ever-improving business |
Delivering top-level software that meets the needs of the growing privacy-conscious market |
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