Managed Compliance Services
Entice helps regulated and security-conscious organizations translate regulatory, contractual, and audit requirements into a working IT compliance program.
We define scope and ownership, close technical gaps, document the work, maintain the controls, and organize evidence for assessors, customers, insurers, and leadership.
Practical support for HIPAA, CMMC, PCI DSS, SEC and FINRA obligations, regulated pharmaceutical operations, customer requirements, and more.
The compliance operating loop
Govern
Scope, policies, owners, and risk decisions
Operate
Controls maintained across the real environment
Prove
Evidence collected as part of normal operations
Improve
Recurring review as risks and systems change
Compliance Without Shelfware
Policies matter. But policies do not configure MFA, patch a server, review an administrator’s access, test a restore, investigate an alert, or preserve evidence that any of it happened.
A proper MSP connects the written program to the real environment: your people, identities, devices, Microsoft 365 tenant, applications, vendors, data, backups, logs, and recovery procedures. Entice brings those pieces together under one operating model.
Govern the Program
Define the compliance boundary, applicable requirements, policies, risks, control owners, approval rules, exceptions, and reporting expectations.
Operate the Controls
Implement and maintain the technical safeguards across identities, endpoints, servers, cloud services, networks, data, monitoring, backup, and recovery.
Prove the Work
Collect evidence as part of normal operations, review control status, track gaps to closure, and prepare clear documentation for leadership and independent assessors.
What a Proper MSP Can Manage
Scope, System, and Data Inventory
Identify the users, devices, applications, vendors, locations, data, and workflows that fall inside the compliance boundary.
Control Mapping and Ownership
Map each requirement to the control that addresses it, the person or provider responsible for it, the evidence it produces, and any unresolved gap.
Identity and Access Governance
Manage MFA, SSO, Conditional Access, privileged accounts, least privilege, onboarding, offboarding, and recurring access reviews.
Secure Configuration and Vulnerability Management
Maintain security baselines, patch supported systems, monitor vulnerabilities, encrypt managed devices, and correct configuration drift.
Data Protection and Recovery
Protect sensitive data through appropriate access controls, encryption, retention practices, backup monitoring, restore testing, and recovery planning.
Logging, Monitoring, and Incident Response
Centralize relevant security events, detect suspicious activity, document escalation paths, and maintain practical incident-response procedures.
Policies and Repeatable Procedures
Develop usable policies and operating procedures for access, acceptable use, incident response, backup, change management, vendors, and other assigned controls.
Evidence and Assessment Support
Organize reports, configuration records, access reviews, training records, test results, approvals, exceptions, and remediation status for the people who need to review them.
Vendor and Service-Provider Oversight
Document which third parties touch regulated systems or data, what responsibilities they carry, and how their security posture is evaluated.
The Entice Compliance Operating Standard
Every managed control should have four things:
A Named Owner
Someone is accountable for completing the work and answering questions about it.
A Defined Implementation
The policy states what should happen. The operating procedure explains how it actually happens.
A Reliable Evidence Source
Reports, logs, approvals, tickets, screenshots, test records, or other artifacts demonstrate that the control operates.
A Review Cadence
The control is reviewed on a defined schedule and after material changes to the business or technology environment.
Anything less is an intention — not a managed control.
What You Receive
The exact deliverables depend on your framework, environment, and engagement scope. A program may include:
Current-State Baseline
A documented compliance boundary, system and data inventory, gap assessment, and risk register.
Control and Remediation Plan
A control crosswalk, shared-responsibility matrix, prioritized remediation roadmap, dependencies, budget considerations, and target dates.
Written Program
Policies, operating procedures, technical standards, diagrams, response plans, recovery procedures, and implementation documentation.
Evidence and Reporting
An organized evidence library, recurring control-status reporting, exception tracking, executive summaries, and support during auditor or assessor requests.
You should be able to answer three questions without searching through old email:
What are we required to do?
Who owns each part?
What evidence shows it is happening?
Defense contractors: CMMC Phase 1 is underway. Confirm your FCI/CUI scope, self-assessment readiness, and supporting evidence before the requirement reaches your solicitation.
Framework and Regulatory Support
Most frameworks use different language to ask many of the same operational questions: Do you know what systems and data you have? Is access controlled? Are vulnerabilities addressed? Can you detect and respond to an incident? Can you recover? Can you demonstrate that the program is governed and reviewed?
Entice builds a reusable control foundation, then maps it to the regulatory, contractual, or assessment requirements your organization is working toward.
HIPAA
Support may include ePHI scoping, security risk analysis, access management, device protection, activity review, contingency planning, incident procedures, documentation, and business-associate coordination.
The HIPAA Security Rule requires regulated entities to use administrative, physical, and technical safeguards, conduct a thorough risk analysis, periodically evaluate safeguards, and update controls and documentation as risks and environments change.
CMMC and NIST SP 800-171
Support may include FCI and CUI scoping, architecture review, control implementation, System Security Plan development, POA&M tracking where permitted, evidence organization, self-assessment preparation, and coordination with an authorized assessor.
CMMC Level 2 can require either a self-assessment or an independent C3PAO assessment, depending on the solicitation, and currently incorporates the 110 requirements of NIST SP 800-171 Revision 2. Entice prepares and operates assigned controls; the applicable authorized body performs the independent assessment when one is required.
PCI DSS
Support may include cardholder-data environment scoping, network segmentation review, access controls, secure configurations, vulnerability management, logging and monitoring, and evidence preparation for Self-Assessment Questionnaires or a Qualified Security Assessor.
PCI DSS compliance is validated through Self-Assessment Questionnaires or an independent Qualified Security Assessor, depending on merchant level. Entice prepares and operates assigned controls; the acquirer or QSA performs the formal validation when one is required.
SEC and FINRA Cybersecurity Obligations
Support may include written security and incident-response procedures, access controls, monitoring, recovery planning, service-provider oversight, documentation, and recurring reviews.
The SEC’s amended Regulation S-P requires covered institutions to maintain written incident-response policies and procedures designed to detect, respond to, and recover from unauthorized access to customer information. FINRA’s small-firm guidance similarly organizes cybersecurity around identifying, protecting, detecting, responding, and recovering.
Pharmaceutical and DEA-Regulated Operations
Entice can support the technology behind regulated pharmaceutical operations through controlled access, secure infrastructure, reliable records, audit trails, monitoring, backup, recovery, and operational continuity.
The precise non-IT obligations remain with the organization’s compliance, operations, and legal teams.
Customer, Contract, and Insurance Requirements
Support can also include customer security questionnaires, vendor due-diligence requests, cyber-insurance reviews, contractual security requirements, and requests for evidence from business partners.
How It Works
01
Define the Requirement and Scope
We begin with the framework, regulation, contract, assessment, or customer requirement driving the work. We identify the systems, users, vendors, locations, and data that belong inside the review.
Output: Documented scope and initial responsibility boundary.
02
Assess the Current State
We review existing policies, configurations, controls, documentation, evidence, and known risks. Gaps are evaluated based on business impact, compliance significance, effort, and dependency.
Output: Gap assessment, risk register, and baseline control map.
03
Build the Roadmap and Assign Ownership
We determine what Entice can own, what remains with the client, and where legal counsel, HR, operations, vendors, or an independent assessor must participate.
Output: Prioritized roadmap, shared-responsibility matrix, target dates, and budget considerations.
04
Implement and Document
Entice closes agreed technical gaps, improves configurations, creates practical procedures, documents implementation decisions, and establishes recurring work.
Output: Implemented controls, written program, and operating procedures.
05
Validate and Prepare Evidence
We verify that controls are operating, test critical procedures, resolve missing documentation, organize evidence, and prepare responsible personnel for assessor questions.
Output: Readiness status, evidence set, exceptions, and remaining actions.
06
Manage and Improve
Compliance does not stop when the assessment ends. We monitor assigned controls, review changes, maintain evidence, track remediation, and report material issues on a defined cadence.
Output: Ongoing visibility and fewer last-minute surprises.
Shared Responsibility
Compliance can involve leadership, legal counsel, HR, operations, finance, technology providers, vendors, and independent assessors. A proper engagement makes those boundaries explicit.
Entice Can Own
Implementation and operation of agreed technical controls
Recurring IT security and maintenance activities
Documentation and evidence for assigned controls
Technical remediation and exception tracking
Control-status and risk reporting
Coordination with counsel, auditors, and assessors
Support during evidence requests and technical interviews
Your Organization Owns
Confirming applicable legal and contractual obligations
Appointing accountable leadership
Approving policies and risk-acceptance decisions
Enforcing workforce and operational requirements
Completing business processes outside the IT environment
Making executive attestations or certifications
Engaging the required independent auditor or assessor
Important disclosure: Entice provides technology, documentation, and readiness support. Entice does not provide legal advice, issue independent audit opinions, or guarantee that an assessor or regulator will reach a particular conclusion.
Proof From the Work
Regulated Pharmaceutical Distribution
Entice strengthened infrastructure, monitoring, backup readiness, documentation, and operational controls for a regulated pharmaceutical distributor — supporting more than 24 months without unplanned downtime.
HIPAA-Ready Dental Modernization
Entice modernized aging infrastructure, encrypted devices, tested backups, and built a written security program for a dental group while the practices remained open with no lost patient days.
Who It Is For
Entice compliance services are built for organizations that:
Face regulatory, contractual, insurance, or customer security requirements
Need to prepare for an upcoming audit, examination, or assessment
Have policies but cannot consistently produce operating evidence
Have security tools but no unified compliance program
Depend on an MSP that manages tickets but does not own controls
Need senior guidance without building a full internal GRC and security department
Want leadership to understand the risk, cost, priorities, and next decisions
This is especially relevant for health and dental organizations, defense contractors and manufacturers, financial firms, pharmaceutical and distribution operations, professional-services organizations, and businesses that handle payment card data.
Common Questions
Know what applies. Know what is missing. Know who owns the next step.
Entice will map the requirements you are working toward to your current technology environment, identify the technical and documentation gaps, and give leadership a prioritized plan with clear responsibilities.
No scare tactics. No vague score. No policy binder that nobody uses.
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