Harlin ITS - Compliance & Risk Management
Compliance & Risk Management
Reduce risk and prepare for evolving compliance requirements.
Organizations in regulated industries must be able to demonstrate that appropriate security controls, policies and procedures are in place. Harlin ITS helps businesses understand their requirements, identify gaps and establish practical compliance programs.
Compliance & Risk Management - Reduce Risk and Prepare for Evolving Compliance Requirements
Organizations are increasingly expected to demonstrate that appropriate security controls, policies, procedures, and documentation are in place.
These expectations may come from government regulations, industry standards, cyber insurance providers, customers, business partners, or contractual requirements. Keeping up with those obligations can be difficult—especially when requirements change or responsibility is divided among multiple employees, vendors, and service providers.
Harlin ITS helps organizations understand their technology-related compliance responsibilities, identify potential gaps, and establish practical security and risk management programs.
Our compliance and risk management services help businesses move beyond informal practices and create documented, repeatable processes that can be monitored and improved over time.
Practical Compliance Support Built Around Your Organization
Compliance is not simply a checklist or a one-time project. It requires an understanding of your organization’s systems, information, employees, vendors, risks, and operational responsibilities.
Harlin ITS helps organizations evaluate their current environment and develop a practical plan based on the standards or requirements that apply to them.
We help businesses:
Understand applicable technology and security requirements- Identify gaps between current practices and expected controls
- Document security policies and operating procedures
- Establish responsibility for compliance-related activities
- Monitor security controls and compliance conditions
- Protect sensitive and regulated information
- Evaluate risks created by vendors and service providers
- Prepare supporting documentation for assessments and audits
- Track corrective actions and improvement priorities
- Build compliance into ongoing technology management
The result is a more organized and defensible approach to security, compliance, and business risk.
Compliance Readiness Assessments
A compliance readiness assessment compares your organization’s current practices against the requirements of a selected regulation, framework, or contractual standard.
Harlin ITS evaluates the technology, security controls, policies, procedures, and documentation related to the applicable requirements.
A readiness assessment may include:
- Review of the current technology environment
- Identification of sensitive or regulated information
- Review of identity and access controls
- Evaluation of device and network security
- Backup and recovery review
- Security policy review
- Employee security awareness review
- Vendor and third-party risk review
- Documentation gap analysis
- Identification of missing or incomplete controls
- Prioritized remediation recommendations
- Development of an improvement roadmap
The objective is to give leadership a clearer understanding of current risks, existing strengths, and the work needed to improve compliance readiness.
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HIPAA Compliance Readiness Assessments
Organizations that create, receive, maintain, or transmit protected health information may be subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and related requirements.
Healthcare providers are not the only organizations that may have HIPAA responsibilities. Business associates, technology providers, billing companies, professional service firms, and other vendors may also handle protected health information.
Harlin ITS helps organizations evaluate technology-related safeguards involving:
- Access to protected health information
- User account and permission management
- Multifactor authentication
- Workstation and device security
- Email and communication security
- Backup and recovery
- Security incident procedures
- Employee onboarding and offboarding
- Mobile device access
- Vendor and business associate risk
- Security policies and documentation
- Risk assessment findings
- Corrective action planning
Our readiness services help organizations identify areas requiring attention and establish a more structured approach to protecting sensitive health information.
Harlin ITS does not provide legal advice or issue formal HIPAA certification. We work with your organization and, when appropriate, its legal, compliance, insurance, and industry advisors to address technology and cybersecurity requirements.
NIST Compliance Readiness Assessments
The National Institute of Standards and Technology provides widely recognized cybersecurity frameworks and guidance that organizations can use to evaluate and improve their security programs.
NIST-based requirements may be introduced through customer contracts, government work, cyber insurance applications, vendor requirements, or an organization’s internal risk management goals.
Harlin ITS helps organizations evaluate their security practices against an applicable NIST framework or set of controls.
A NIST readiness assessment may examine:
- Cybersecurity risk assessment
- Identity and access management
- Data protection
- Security awareness and training
- Vulnerability management
- System monitoring
- Incident detection and response
- Backup and recovery
- Vendor risk
- Policy and procedure documentation
- Security governance
- Continuous improvement processes
Following the assessment, Harlin ITS can help prioritize gaps and develop a practical roadmap based on business risk, available resources, and contractual requirements.
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CMMC Compliance Readiness Assessments
Organizations that work with the United States Department of Defense or participate in the defense industrial base may be required to protect Federal Contract Information or Controlled Unclassified Information.
Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification requirements can affect prime contractors, subcontractors, manufacturers, professional service providers, and other organizations throughout the supply chain.
Harlin ITS helps organizations evaluate their technology environment and prepare for applicable CMMC requirements.
CMMC readiness services may include:
- Identification of systems within the compliance scope
- Review of Federal Contract Information
- Review of Controlled Unclassified Information
- Asset and data flow documentation
- User access and authentication review
- Multifactor authentication assessment
- Endpoint and network security review
- Logging and monitoring assessment
- Backup and recovery review
- Security policy development
- Evidence and documentation review
- Identification of control gaps
- Remediation planning
- Preparation of supporting security documentation
The objective is to help your organization understand its current position and prepare for assessment activities.
Harlin ITS does not act as a certification body and does not guarantee certification. Formal CMMC assessments must be completed by an appropriately authorized assessment organization when required.
Continuous Compliance Monitoring
Compliance conditions can change as employees are hired, devices are added, vendors change, software is introduced, or security settings are modified.
A business that appears ready during a one-time assessment can gradually fall out of alignment when controls are not regularly reviewed.
Harlin ITS helps organizations establish ongoing compliance monitoring processes that may include:
- Device compliance monitoring
- Security patch status
- Endpoint protection status
- Identity and access reviews
- Multifactor authentication status
- Backup monitoring
- Vulnerability findings
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- Policy review schedules
- Employee training status
- Vendor review schedules
- Security alert monitoring
- Corrective action tracking
- Documentation reviews
- Recurring compliance reporting
Continuous monitoring helps identify changes and control failures before they remain unnoticed for extended periods.
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Policy and Procedure Development
Policies define what an organization expects. Procedures explain how employees and service providers carry out those expectations.
Without written policies and procedures, security responsibilities may be handled inconsistently or depend entirely on the knowledge of individual employees.
Harlin ITS helps organizations develop practical technology and security documentation based on their operations and applicable requirements.
Documentation may include:
- Information security policies
- Acceptable use policies
- Access control policies
- Password and authentication standards
- Employee onboarding procedures
- Employee offboarding procedures
- Data backup policies
- Disaster recovery procedures
- Incident response procedures
- Mobile device policies
- Remote work policies
- Data retention and disposal policies
- Vendor management policies
- Security awareness requirements
- Change management procedures
- Vulnerability management procedures
Policies should reflect how the organization actually operates. Harlin ITS works to create documentation that is understandable, maintainable, and practical for employees to follow.
Legal counsel or other qualified advisors should review policies that address legal, regulatory, employment, or contractual obligations.
Data Loss Prevention
Sensitive information can be exposed through email, cloud storage, portable devices, personal accounts, unauthorized applications, accidental sharing, or malicious activity.
Data Loss Prevention solutions help organizations identify sensitive information and establish rules governing how that information can be accessed, shared, transferred, or stored.
Harlin ITS can help businesses plan and implement Data Loss Prevention measures involving:
- Sensitive information identification
- Sensitive information identification
- Email protection rules
- Cloud file-sharing controls
- Microsoft 365 Data Loss Prevention
- Access and permission restrictions
- External sharing controls
- Device security requirements
- Encryption
- Removable storage controls
- Mobile device protections
- User activity monitoring
- Policy violation alerts
- Employee education
The appropriate controls depend on the types of information your organization handles, where that information is stored, and how employees need to use it.
The goal is to protect sensitive information without creating unnecessary barriers that prevent employees from completing legitimate work.
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Vendor Risk Management
Most organizations rely on outside vendors for software, cloud hosting, payroll, accounting, communications, data processing, professional services, and technical support.
These vendors may have access to systems, accounts, confidential information, or regulated data. A security failure involving a third party can create significant operational, financial, and reputational consequences.
Harlin ITS helps organizations develop a more structured approach to vendor risk management.
Services may include:
- Vendor inventory development
- Identification of critical vendors
- Review of vendor system access
- Data-sharing assessment
- Security questionnaire development
- Review of available security documentation
- Contractual security requirement review
- Account and permission review
- Vendor onboarding procedures
- Vendor offboarding procedures
- Periodic vendor reassessment
- Risk classification
- Corrective action tracking
- Documentation of vendor-related decisions
Vendor risk management helps leadership understand which providers create the greatest exposure and where additional controls, documentation, or oversight may be needed.
Contract terms and legal obligations should be reviewed by qualified legal counsel.
Security and Risk Documentation
An organization may have strong technical protections but still struggle during an audit, insurance review, customer questionnaire, or contract evaluation because its practices are not documented.
Harlin ITS helps organizations organize and maintain documentation that supports security and compliance activities.
Documentation may include:
- Technology asset inventories
- Network diagrams
- Data flow diagrams
- User access records
- Security control descriptions
- Risk assessment reports
- Remediation plans
- Policies and procedures
- Backup and recovery documentation
- Incident response plans
- Business continuity plans
- Vendor inventories
- Employee training records
- Vulnerability assessment findings
- Compliance monitoring reports
- System Security Plans
- Plans of Action and Milestones
Clear documentation helps demonstrate that security responsibilities have been identified, controls have been considered, and identified risks are being addressed.
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Cybersecurity Risk Assessments
A cybersecurity risk assessment evaluates the threats, vulnerabilities, and operational consequences associated with your technology environment.
Harlin ITS helps organizations identify critical systems, sensitive information, likely threats, and weaknesses that could lead to disruption or unauthorized access.
Documentation may include:
- Identification of critical systems
- Sensitive data review
- Asset inventory
- Identity and access review
- Network security review
- Endpoint security review
- Backup and recovery review
- Vulnerability review
- Employee security practices
- Remote access evaluation
- Vendor risk review
- Business impact analysis
- Risk prioritization
- Remediation recommendations
The findings can help leadership direct resources toward the risks that could have the greatest effect on the organization.
Risk-Based Remediation Planning
Compliance assessments can identify many findings, but not every issue presents the same level of risk.
Harlin ITS helps organizations prioritize corrective actions based on factors such as:
- Sensitivity of the affected information
- Number of users or systems involved
- Likelihood of exploitation
- Potential operational impact
- Contractual requirements
- Regulatory expectations
- Cost and complexity of remediation
- Existing compensating controls
- Available resources
- Required completion dates
A risk-based roadmap helps the organization address the most important issues first while creating a manageable plan for longer-term improvements.
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Security Awareness and Employee Responsibilities
Technology controls alone cannot create an effective compliance program. Employees must understand security expectations and know how to respond when something appears suspicious.
Harlin ITS can support employee security and compliance efforts through:
- Security awareness training
- Phishing simulations
- Acceptable use education
- Password and authentication guidance
- Data handling expectations
- Email security education
- Incident reporting procedures
- Remote work security guidance
- Policy acknowledgment tracking
- Role-based security instruction
- Recurring training campaigns
Clear expectations and regular education help make security part of everyday business operations.
Incident Response Planning
A security incident can involve malware, ransomware, unauthorized access, lost equipment, accidental data exposure, compromised accounts, or suspicious employee activity.
Responding without a documented plan can lead to confusion, delayed decisions, lost evidence, and inconsistent communication.
Harlin ITS helps organizations develop technology-focused incident response procedures that may address:
- Incident identification
- Internal reporting
- Escalation responsibilities
- Account containment
- Device isolation
- Evidence preservation
- Backup and recovery coordination
- Communication procedures
- Vendor notification
- Cyber insurance coordination
- Legal and regulatory escalation
- Post-incident review
- Corrective action planning
Legal counsel, insurance providers, forensic specialists, law enforcement, and other professionals may need to participate depending on the nature of the incident.
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Compliance Support for Internal IT Teams
Internal IT employees may be responsible for daily support, infrastructure, projects, security, and compliance at the same time.
Harlin ITS can work alongside your internal technology team to provide additional compliance and risk management capacity.
Co-managed compliance services may include:
- Readiness assessments
- Control gap analysis
- Policy and procedure development
- Technical security reviews
- Documentation assistance
- Continuous monitoring
- Vulnerability management
- Vendor risk reviews
- Remediation planning
- Evidence collection
- Project assistance
- Strategic guidance
Your internal team retains its knowledge and responsibility while gaining access to additional tools, expertise, and implementation support.
Compliance Is an Ongoing Process
Compliance programs must evolve as business operations, technology, regulations, contracts, and threats change.
Harlin ITS helps organizations establish recurring activities such as:
- Annual risk assessments
- Scheduled policy reviews
- Periodic access reviews
- Employee training
- Vulnerability assessments
- Vendor reassessments
- Backup recovery testing
- Incident response exercises
- Security control reviews
- Compliance reporting
- Remediation tracking
- Leadership reviews
Recurring reviews help prevent compliance from becoming a collection of outdated documents that no longer reflect the organization’s actual operations.
CALL HARLIN ITS FOR Compliance & Risk Management:
(360) 644-1620
Compliance Is an Ongoing Process
Compliance programs must evolve as business operations, technology, regulations, contracts, and threats change.
Harlin ITS helps organizations establish recurring activities such as:
- Annual risk assessments
- Scheduled policy reviews
- Periodic access reviews
- Employee training
- Vulnerability assessments
- Vendor reassessments
- Backup recovery testing
- Incident response exercises
- Security control reviews
- Compliance reporting
- Remediation tracking
- Leadership reviews
Recurring reviews help prevent compliance from becoming a collection of outdated documents that no longer reflect the organization’s actual operations.
CALL HARLIN ITS FOR Compliance & Risk Management:
(360) 644-1620
Why Choose Harlin ITS?
Harlin ITS helps organizations connect compliance requirements with the technology and security practices needed to support them.
Our approach focuses on:
- Practical recommendations based on your organization
- Clear identification of security and documentation gaps
- Prioritized remediation planning
- Alignment between policies and actual practices
- Ongoing monitoring and review
- Coordination with internal IT teams
- Support for regulated and contract-driven environments
- Clear security and risk documentation
- Long-term improvement rather than one-time checklists
- A trusted technology partnership
We help make compliance more understandable, manageable, and connected to your broader cybersecurity strategy.
CALL HARLIN ITS FOR Compliance & Risk Management:
(360) 644-1620
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