Framework readiness guides
Practical readiness guidance for SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, the EU AI Act, and more, written for the industries where each framework carries the most weight. Each guide covers why the framework matters in that industry, the considerations that decide readiness, and the questions teams ask before starting.
SOC 2
SOC 2 for Technology
For a software or SaaS company, SOC 2 is rarely optional for long.
SOC 2 for Healthcare
Healthcare organizations and the vendors that serve them face a compounding requirement: HIPAA is the legal floor, but hospital systems and payers increasingly demand a SOC 2 report on top of it before signing a business associate agreement.
SOC 2 for Financial Services
In financial services, SOC 2 usually arrives through the vendor door: banks, broker-dealers, and insurers are themselves regulated on third-party risk, so they push examination-grade expectations down to every fintech, data provider, and outsourced service they touch.
ISO 27001
HIPAA
HIPAA for Healthcare
HIPAA is unusual among the frameworks on this site: it is not a certification you pursue but a federal regulation you are presumed to meet from day one, enforced through breach investigations, audits, and complaint-driven reviews with civil monetary penalties that scale with negligence.
HIPAA for Technology
The moment your software creates, receives, maintains, or transmits protected health information on behalf of a covered entity, you are a business associate, and most of HIPAA's Security Rule applies to you directly, with direct enforcement exposure to match.
PCI DSS
PCI DSS for Technology
For a technology company, the single most consequential PCI DSS decision is architectural: how much cardholder data your systems actually touch.
PCI DSS for Retail & E-commerce
Retail carries the widest PCI attack surface of any industry: physical points of sale, e-commerce checkouts, call centers taking cards by phone, and increasingly all of them at once.
EU AI Act
EU AI Act for Financial Services
Financial services sits squarely in the EU AI Act's crosshairs: creditworthiness assessment for natural persons and risk assessment and pricing in life and health insurance are explicitly designated high-risk uses, and AI used in employment decisions, common across the industry, is high-risk as well.
EU AI Act for Technology
Technology companies face the EU AI Act from the hardest side: as providers.
NIST AI RMF
NIST AI RMF for Healthcare
Healthcare is adopting AI faster than almost any industry, and with higher stakes: ambient clinical documentation, imaging triage, sepsis prediction, utilization management, and payer-side prior authorization all now run on models whose failures land on patients.
NIST AI RMF for Financial Services
Financial services has governed models for decades: SR 11-7 made model risk management a supervisory expectation, with inventories, independent validation, and documentation as table stakes.
ISO 42001
GLBA
NIST CSF
CMMC
GDPR
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