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Readiness Advisory

Ready your defences for a confident certification.

Strategic readiness assessments that ready your digital defence for unmatched resilience — closing the gap between where you are today and where your target standard expects you to be.

Overview

From gap analysis to certification-ready.

Readiness advisory bridges intent and outcome. We assess your current control environment against your target framework, pinpoint exactly what's missing, and hand you a prioritised roadmap — so when the formal audit arrives, there are no surprises.

Beyond the assessment, we help you build the policies, procedures and evidence trails that certification demands, and run mock audits to validate you're truly ready. The result is a smoother, faster, less stressful path to your ISO, SOC 2 or PCI DSS goal.

It's the difference between hoping you'll pass and knowing you will.

What's included

Readiness across every standard you're chasing.

Whichever certification is on your roadmap, we get you prepared.

How we work

A clear route to readiness.

A staged engagement that moves you from assessment to certification-ready with confidence.

Assess current state

Benchmarking your controls, documentation and practices today.

Analyse gaps

Identifying and rating every gap to the target standard.

Build the roadmap

A sequenced, prioritised plan to reach certification.

Support implementation

Hands-on help to build the controls and documentation.

Run a mock audit

A dry-run audit to surface issues before the real thing.

Hand off to certification

Preparing you for, and supporting, the certification audit.

What you receive

A practical toolkit, not just a report.

  • Gap assessment reportYour current posture measured against every requirement of the standard.
  • Prioritised remediation roadmapA sequenced, time-bound plan to reach certification readiness.
  • Policy & procedure templatesEditable, framework-aligned documents to jump-start your control set.
  • Implementation trackerA live workbook to manage tasks, owners and progress to readiness.
  • Mock audit results & readiness sign-offDocumented confirmation that you're prepared for the formal audit.

Standards we prepare you for

Readiness mapped to the certification on your roadmap.

ISO 27001ISO 27701ISO 22301ISO 20000-1 ISO 42001SOC 2PCI DSS v4.0HIPAA
FAQ

Common questions

How is readiness different from the audit itself?
Readiness is the preparation phase — we identify and help close gaps so you walk into the formal audit confident. The audit is the independent examination that results in your attestation or certificate. For independence, certification audits are conducted separately from our implementation support.
Do you help implement the fixes, or just point them out?
Both. We identify gaps and then provide hands-on support — templates, control design and guidance — to actually close them, working alongside your team at whatever level of involvement suits you.
How long until we're certification-ready?
For a focused scope, readiness can take a few weeks; broader programmes with significant gaps may run a few months. The roadmap we deliver gives you a realistic, prioritised timeline up front.
Can you prepare us for more than one standard at once?
Yes. Many controls overlap across ISO 27001, SOC 2 and others, so we map shared requirements once and prepare you for multiple frameworks efficiently rather than duplicating effort.
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Close the gap to certification.

Start with a gap assessment and get a clear, prioritised roadmap to your target standard.