Compliance looks different in every industry.
Greypike turns compliance obligations into assigned tasks, gives each one an owner, collects the evidence and keeps the program current — whichever set of rules you happen to owe.
30 minutes, no prep. Tell us what you handle and who’s asking, and we’ll tell you what you actually owe — including if it’s less than you feared.
Every organization faces the same five things.
A defense supplier protecting CUI and a CPA firm implementing FTC Safeguards look nothing alike on the surface. Underneath, both are working through this list — and failing at the same five points.
Requirements arrive
Usually sideways — a contract clause, an insurer, a questionnaire, a prime. Rarely from reading the regulation.
Someone interprets them
Control language has to become something a person can actually do on a Tuesday afternoon.
Evidence gets collected
Exports, screenshots, signed records — dated, attributable, and findable a year later.
Reviews happen
Somebody with judgment confirms the work genuinely satisfies the requirement before an outsider looks.
It gets maintained
Evidence ages, staff leave, environments change. The program has to survive all three.
Find your industry.
Five places the same problem shows up wearing different clothes. Pick the one that describes you.
Government contractors
CMMC · NIST SP 800-171 · SPRS · GCC High · CUISome of the most demanding cybersecurity requirements in the market, and the only one of these where the data itself may need somewhere new to live. All 110 requirements as assigned tasks, plus an accredited enclave when CUI needs a boundary.
Explore government contractor solutionsSecure Enclave for CUIMicrosoft GCC High supportSSP, POA&M and SPRS scoringCyber AB Registered Practitioner led
CPA & financial services
FTC Safeguards · GLBA · client security reviewsMost firms discover FTC Safeguards because a client, an insurer or an engagement letter asked about it — not because they were reading regulations. We turn those obligations into recurring work with the evidence kept current.
Explore financial services solutionsCPA firms and accounting practicesTax preparationPayroll providersFinancial advisors and bookkeepers
Healthcare
HIPAA · Business Associate Agreements · vendor reviewsCovered entities, customers and insurers increasingly expect you to demonstrate the program, not describe it. If you’ve signed a BAA, the obligation is yours directly — and the evidence has to be there when they ask.
Explore healthcare solutionsManufacturing & engineering
Customer requirements · ISO 27001 · ITAR · EARDifferent customers ask for different things, and answering each one separately is how the effort multiplies. We map completed work across customer requirements, supplier reviews, ISO 27001 and export-control obligations.
Explore manufacturing solutionsManufacturers and engineering firmsAerospace suppliersDefense subcontractorsIndustrial technology companies
SaaS & technology
SOC 2 · ISO 27001 · enterprise procurementNobody pursues compliance because they love compliance. They pursue it because an enterprise customer’s security team stopped the deal moving. We organize the program, build audit readiness and shorten the reviews that hold up revenue.
Explore technology solutionsOne platform. Different compliance journeys.
The five steps are the same everywhere. Only the language changes. Here is the same program, renamed five times.
What it’s called in GovCon
What it’s called in a CPA firm
What it’s called in healthcare
What it’s called in manufacturing
What it’s called in SaaS
Same five steps, five vocabularies. That’s why work completed for one obligation counts toward the next one, and why your second framework costs a fraction of your first — the platform maps between the languages so you don’t have to.
A manufacturer with defense contracts. A SaaS company selling into healthcare. A CPA firm whose clients are federal subs. The overlap is where most of the wasted effort lives — and where the mapping pays for itself fastest.
Our job is to make the journey shorter than it was.
Whichever industry you’re in, you didn’t start this business to run a compliance program. Something arrived that you now have to answer, and the honest goal is to get you to answered with as little of your week spent on it as possible.
Not compliance theater. Not a bigger binder. Less of your time, spent on fewer things, with someone accountable for the result.
You get told what to do, not what’s wrong
Requirements arrive as assigned tasks with an owner, a due date and a definition of done — so nobody has to translate control language into work. That’s the step most organizations lose weeks to.
Someone checks it before an outsider does
A dedicated compliance manager reviews what you submit and tells you if it won’t hold. Finding that out in September beats finding it out in the audit window — and it’s the difference between a program and a folder.
You do the work once
An access review is an access review whoever is asking. Completed work and its evidence map onto every obligation they satisfy, so the second framework costs a fraction of the first — and the fifth costs less again.
It stays current without you watching it
Evidence expires, people leave, environments change. The program reopens what needs attention and your compliance manager tells you whether it actually matters — so you maintain a program instead of rebuilding one before every review.
Who’s doing the work.
The reason the same five steps work across five industries is that we have run them in the hardest one.
- 20+ years across government and the Defense Industrial Base
- 14 years as a cybersecurity and fraud investigator
- Cyber AB Registered Practitioner (RP) and Registered Practitioner Advanced (RPA)
- MIT Sloan certificate in artificial intelligence for business strategy and governance
Greypike is a Veteran-Owned Small Business supporting 20+ Defense Industrial Base contractors on active contracts that support defense missions. We build and run compliant environments rather than only advising on them.
That matters on a page like this one because CMMC is the strictest of the five. An assessor does not accept a policy that describes intent, and there is no partial credit for a control you meant to implement. A program built to survive that holds up comfortably in front of a SOC 2 auditor, a covered entity or an insurer’s renewal questionnaire.
The method travels. The vocabulary is what changes.
Which rules apply to us?
The questions we get asked before anyone signs anything.
How do I know which compliance framework applies to my business?
It is decided by what data you handle and who is asking. Handle Controlled Unclassified Information under a federal contract and it is CMMC and NIST SP 800-171. Handle customer financial information as a CPA firm or tax preparer and it is the FTC Safeguards Rule under GLBA. Handle Protected Health Information under a Business Associate Agreement and it is HIPAA. Sell software to enterprises and it is usually SOC 2, sometimes ISO 27001. Manufacture for defense or aerospace and it is customer requirements plus export controls, often alongside CMMC.
Most organizations fall into one clearly. A meaningful minority fall into two, which is where the mapping matters most.
What if we fall into more than one industry?
That is common: a manufacturer with defense contracts, a SaaS company selling into healthcare, a CPA firm whose clients are federal subcontractors. Running two separate programs is how the effort doubles.
Because the underlying five steps are identical, completed work and its evidence map onto every obligation it satisfies. An access review is an access review whether a C3PAO, a covered entity or an enterprise security team is asking. The second framework costs a fraction of the first.
We only got asked about this because of a customer. Does it still apply?
Usually yes, and that is the normal way it arrives. Requirements rarely reach a business through the regulation itself. They come through a prime contractor’s flowdown, an insurer’s renewal form, an engagement letter, a Business Associate Agreement or a vendor questionnaire that stalled a deal.
Whether the obligation is legal, contractual or commercial changes who enforces it. It does not change the work.
Do we need a certification, or is alignment enough?
It depends on the framework. CMMC requires a certification assessment for most levels. SOC 2 requires an audit by a CPA firm. ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 are certified by accredited bodies. FTC Safeguards and HIPAA have no certificate at all — you demonstrate the program with evidence when asked.
Greypike prepares you in every case. We are not a certification body, and certification is always performed by an independent one.
How long does compliance take?
It depends on the framework and on how much you already run. The honest answer on a first call is usually a range rather than a date, because the driver is rarely the framework — it is how much evidence already exists and how much of your team’s week is available.
What we can tell you quickly is which of the five steps you are already doing without calling it compliance, because that is what sets the timeline.
Can you do this if nobody here works on compliance full time?
That is the case the platform is built for. Requirements arrive as assigned tasks with an owner, a due date and a definition of done, so nobody has to translate control language into work. A dedicated compliance manager reviews what gets submitted and tells you if it will not hold before an outsider sees it.
What makes this different from a GRC tool or a gap assessment?
A gap assessment tells you what is wrong. A dashboard tells you the same thing continuously. Neither does the work, and none of the five failure points above is a knowledge problem.
The difference is assignment and review: the work gets given to a named person with a deadline, and a human with judgment checks the result before an assessor does.
What if we’re not sure we owe anything yet?
Then that is the call to book. Tell us what data you handle and who has been asking, and we will tell you what actually applies — including when the answer is less than you feared. We would rather scope you accurately than sell you a program you do not need.
