Managed Compliance Services
Managed Compliance Services
Turn Compliance Requirements Into Controls You Can Prove
Turn Compliance Requirements Into Controls You Can Prove.
Turn Compliance Requirements Into Controls You Can Prove.
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.
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.
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
Compliance Without Shelfware
A policy is not a control until the work matches the words
A policy is not a control until the work matches the words.
A policy is not a control until the work matches the words.
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.
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.
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
What a Proper MSP Can Manage
Compliance work that continues after the assessment
Compliance work that continues after the assessment.
Compliance work that continues after the assessment.
Scope, System, and Data Inventory
Identify the users, devices, applications, vendors, locations, data, and workflows that fall inside the compliance boundary.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
The Entice Compliance Operating Standard
No shelfware policies. No mystery ownership. No audit-week scramble.
No shelfware policies. No mystery ownership. No audit-week scramble.
No shelfware policies. No mystery ownership. No audit-week scramble.
Every managed control should have four things:
Every managed control should have four things:
A Named Owner
Someone is accountable for completing the work and answering questions about it.
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.
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
What You Receive
A compliance program leadership can see and use
A compliance program leadership can see and use.
A compliance program leadership can see and use.
The exact deliverables depend on your framework, environment, and engagement scope. A program may include:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
CMMC implementation requirements can change. Defense contractors should confirm the requirements in their solicitation or contract, their FCI/CUI scope, and the applicable NIST SP 800-171 revision before relying on a readiness plan. Entice supports only the technical controls and evidence assigned in the engagement; formal applicability and assessment decisions remain with the customer, contracting authority, counsel, and authorized assessor.
CMMC implementation requirements can change. Defense contractors should confirm the requirements in their solicitation or contract, their FCI/CUI scope, and the applicable NIST SP 800-171 revision before relying on a readiness plan. Entice supports only the technical controls and evidence assigned in the engagement; formal applicability and assessment decisions remain with the customer, contracting authority, counsel, and authorized assessor.
Framework and Regulatory Support
Framework and Regulatory Support
One control foundation, mapped to the requirements that apply
One control foundation, mapped to the requirements that apply.
One control foundation, mapped to the requirements that apply.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
How It Works
A clear path from uncertainty to managed readiness
A clear path from uncertainty to managed readiness.
A clear path from uncertainty to managed readiness.
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.
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.
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
Shared Responsibility
We do the technical work. We do not blur accountability.
We do the technical work. We do not blur accountability.
We do the technical work. We do not blur accountability.
Compliance can involve leadership, legal counsel, HR, operations, finance, technology providers, vendors, and independent assessors. A proper engagement makes those boundaries explicit.
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
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.
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
Proof From the Work
Compliance should improve the operation — not just the audit
Compliance should improve the operation — not just the audit.
Compliance should improve the operation — not just the audit.
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.
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.
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
Who It Is For
Organizations that need compliance to be owned, not improvised
Organizations that need compliance to be owned, not improvised.
Organizations that need compliance to be owned, not improvised.
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
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.
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
Common Questions
Managed compliance, answered plainly
Managed compliance, answered plainly.
Managed compliance, answered plainly.
No single provider can transfer all compliance responsibility away from your organization. Entice can implement and operate agreed technical controls, prepare documentation, preserve evidence, track remediation, and coordinate with your legal and assessment partners. Leadership remains responsible for the organization’s decisions, conduct, and formal attestations.
No single provider can transfer all compliance responsibility away from your organization. Entice can implement and operate agreed technical controls, prepare documentation, preserve evidence, track remediation, and coordinate with your legal and assessment partners. Leadership remains responsible for the organization’s decisions, conduct, and formal attestations.
No single provider can transfer all compliance responsibility away from your organization. Entice can implement and operate agreed technical controls, prepare documentation, preserve evidence, track remediation, and coordinate with your legal and assessment partners. Leadership remains responsible for the organization’s decisions, conduct, and formal attestations.
No. Official examinations and certifications must be performed by the appropriate independent party, such as a CPA firm, C3PAO, regulator, or other authorized assessor. Entice prepares the environment, supports evidence requests, and resolves technical gaps.
No. Official examinations and certifications must be performed by the appropriate independent party, such as a CPA firm, C3PAO, regulator, or other authorized assessor. Entice prepares the environment, supports evidence requests, and resolves technical gaps.
No. Official examinations and certifications must be performed by the appropriate independent party, such as a CPA firm, C3PAO, regulator, or other authorized assessor. Entice prepares the environment, supports evidence requests, and resolves technical gaps.
No. Cybersecurity reduces technology risk. Compliance defines obligations, ownership, documentation, and proof. A strong compliance program uses cybersecurity controls, but also requires governance, policies, evidence, review, and accountability.
No. Cybersecurity reduces technology risk. Compliance defines obligations, ownership, documentation, and proof. A strong compliance program uses cybersecurity controls, but also requires governance, policies, evidence, review, and accountability.
No. Cybersecurity reduces technology risk. Compliance defines obligations, ownership, documentation, and proof. A strong compliance program uses cybersecurity controls, but also requires governance, policies, evidence, review, and accountability.
Usually not. People, systems, vendors, threats, and requirements change. Controls must be maintained, evidence must remain current, and material changes must be evaluated. A readiness project can establish the program; managed compliance keeps it operating.
Usually not. People, systems, vendors, threats, and requirements change. Controls must be maintained, evidence must remain current, and material changes must be evaluated. A readiness project can establish the program; managed compliance keeps it operating.
Usually not. People, systems, vendors, threats, and requirements change. Controls must be maintained, evidence must remain current, and material changes must be evaluated. A readiness project can establish the program; managed compliance keeps it operating.
Evidence depends on the control and framework. Examples include configuration reports, asset inventories, access reviews, encryption status, patch and vulnerability reports, backup results, restore-test records, alert and incident records, policy approvals, training records, vendor reviews, tickets, and remediation documentation.
Evidence depends on the control and framework. Examples include configuration reports, asset inventories, access reviews, encryption status, patch and vulnerability reports, backup results, restore-test records, alert and incident records, policy approvals, training records, vendor reviews, tickets, and remediation documentation.
Evidence depends on the control and framework. Examples include configuration reports, asset inventories, access reviews, encryption status, patch and vulnerability reports, backup results, restore-test records, alert and incident records, policy approvals, training records, vendor reviews, tickets, and remediation documentation.
Yes. The best engagements keep legal interpretation, independent assurance, executive accountability, and technical implementation distinct. Entice can work from counsel or assessor guidance, answer technical questions, provide evidence, and complete agreed remediation.
Yes. The best engagements keep legal interpretation, independent assurance, executive accountability, and technical implementation distinct. Entice can work from counsel or assessor guidance, answer technical questions, provide evidence, and complete agreed remediation.
Yes. The best engagements keep legal interpretation, independent assurance, executive accountability, and technical implementation distinct. Entice can work from counsel or assessor guidance, answer technical questions, provide evidence, and complete agreed remediation.
Start by identifying the requirement driving the work and defining the likely scope. A readiness review then establishes the current state, material gaps, ownership boundaries, and a practical remediation sequence.
Start by identifying the requirement driving the work and defining the likely scope. A readiness review then establishes the current state, material gaps, ownership boundaries, and a practical remediation sequence.
Start by identifying the requirement driving the work and defining the likely scope. A readiness review then establishes the current state, material gaps, ownership boundaries, and a practical remediation sequence.
Know what applies. Know what is missing. Know who owns the next step.
Start with a Compliance Readiness Review
Start with a Compliance Readiness Review.
Start with a Compliance Readiness Review.
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.