Turnstone Compliance

GRC is the intersection of how your organization makes decisions, manages risk, and stays compliant with legal, contractual, and regulatory obligations.

🔧 How Turnstone Helps:
We help businesses build GRC programs from the ground up—developing control maps, risk registers, policy libraries, and compliance workflows tied to real-world operations.

A security consultant bridges the gap between tech, people, and policy—identifying risks, advising on controls, and aligning everything with compliance and business goals.

🔧 How Turnstone Helps:
Our team brings experience across IT, OT, compliance, and frameworks. We don’t just advise—you get implementation guidance, templates, and documentation tailored to your operations.

A risk assessment helps identify vulnerabilities, compliance gaps, and potential threats to your data, systems, and operations. It’s the foundation for all effective cybersecurity programs.

🔧 How Turnstone Helps:
We conduct targeted, framework-aligned risk assessments (e.g., NIST, HIPAA, CMMC) that prioritize what matters most to your business. You’ll get a clear picture of where you stand—and a path to fix what matters.

• Some of the most common gaps include:

• No central logging or visibility

• No multifactor authentication (MFA)

• Outdated software or unpatched systems

• No written policies or incident response plan

• Lack of user training

🔧 How Turnstone Helps:
We identify your gaps, map them to frameworks or contracts (like CMMC or HIPAA), and help implement the controls—from policy to tech—with documentation you can reuse in audits or RFPs.

CMMC (Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification) is required for contractors and subcontractors working with the U.S. Department of Defense, especially those handling CUI (Controlled Unclassified Information).

🔧 How Turnstone Helps:
We support CMMC Level 1 & 2 readiness by aligning your environment to NIST 800‑171, calculating your SPRS score, building System Security Plans (SSPs), and documenting remediation in POA&Ms.

800‑53 is a full catalog of security and privacy controls used by federal agencies. 800‑171 is a tailored set for non-federal entities that handle CUI—especially relevant to DoD suppliers.

🔧 How Turnstone Helps:
We help you interpret both 800‑53 and 800‑171, map your existing controls, and build or refine your policies, tech, and documentation to meet those requirements without overengineering. We’ll also help you strategize your data flow for using, transmitting, or storing CUI.

Start by understanding your data, identifying your key systems, and performing a basic risk assessment. Then apply security controls that are achievable and effective.

🔧 How Turnstone Helps:
We help organizations prioritize what matters. Our framework-based approach gives you a phased, affordable roadmap to grow your security posture over time.

That’s common—especially in industries where contracts reference cybersecurity terms like “DFARS,” “HIPAA,” or “reasonable safeguards” without explaining the technical expectations.

🔧 How Turnstone Helps:
We analyze your contracts, scopes of work, or vendor requirements to identify what compliance frameworks apply. Then we break it down into actionable steps—what you need to implement, what you can inherit or delegate, and how to prove it during audits or reviews.

Yes. Many of our engagements come through MSPs, MSSPs, or IT service providers who rely on our expertise for compliance, security assessments, or documentation support. We also work behind the scenes with private businesses that need help aligning with client, contractual, or regulatory cybersecurity requirements.

🔧 How Turnstone Helps:
We act as an extension of your team—providing white-label or direct consulting services for cybersecurity strategy, risk management, and compliance readiness. We’re also registered on SAM.gov and classified under applicable NAICS codes, making us an eligible partner for public-sector and subcontracted private engagements.

Yes. State and local governments face many of the same cybersecurity and compliance challenges as private businesses—especially in education, public health, utilities, and emergency response. They’re often required to follow NIST-based controls, HIPAA safeguards, CJIS standards, or state-specific regulations.

🔧 How Turnstone Helps:
We support government agencies and contractors with security assessments, risk reduction strategies, and compliance alignment for frameworks like NIST 800‑53, HIPAA, or CJIS.
Turnstone Compliance is registered on SAM.gov and classified under relevant NAICS codes, making us visible and procurement-ready to support prime contractors as a subcontractor public sector projects and vendors.

A cybersecurity framework provides structure for managing security risks. Common examples include NIST CSF, ISO 27001, CIS Controls, and NERC CIP. These aren’t products to ‘buy’, but guidelines to align your organization’s efforts in ensuring that company assets, procedure, and resilience are meeting regulatory requirements.

🔧 How Turnstone Helps:
We work with you to select the right framework and implement it in a way that fits your environment. Our consulting ensures the program is manageable, auditable, and effective—not just paperwork. Some organizations may require cross-mappings or multiple frameworks at once, depending on their contractual obligations.

HIPAA requires protecting patient data (ePHI) with administrative, technical, and physical safeguards—including access controls, audits, and risk assessments.

🔧 How Turnstone Helps:
We assess your HIPAA Security Rule compliance, help implement technical safeguards (like encryption and access controls), and develop your risk analysis, policies, and documentation for audit readiness.

PCI-DSS is a set of security requirements for any business that handles credit card data. It’s not optional—if you accept payments, you’re expected to meet certain standards to protect cardholder information.

Common IT/security oversights include:

• Inadequate logging, monitoring, and retention of access or system activity

• Poor or missing network segmentation of the cardholder environment

🔧 How Turnstone Helps:
We help businesses understand what parts of PCI apply to them, and walk you through implementation and validation—whether you’re a retail shop, SaaS platform, or service provider.

Yes. All businesses that accept credit cards must comply*, regardless of size or transaction volume. The number of transactions you process each year just determines how you validate compliance—not whether you have to do it.

“The PCI DSS applies to all entities that store, process, and/or transmit cardholder data. It covers technical
and operational system components included in or connected to cardholder data. If you accept or
process payment cards, PCI DSS applies to you.”

(source: PCI-DSS council {https://listings.pcisecuritystandards.org/documents/PCIDSS_QRGv3_1.pdf})

Common IT/security oversights include:

• Inadequate logging, monitoring, and retention of access or system activity

• Poor or missing network segmentation of the cardholder environment

🔧 How Turnstone Helps:
We help businesses understand what parts of PCI apply to them, and walk you through implementation and validation—whether you’re a retail shop, SaaS platform, or service provider.

As soon as your systems store, process, or transmit cardholder data—or if you manage networks, devices, or software that touch that data—you’re in scope. That includes in-person POS systems, ecommerce websites, or even cloud services.

🔧 How Turnstone Helps:
We analyze your environment to identify what systems are in scope and help you apply the correct controls for encryption, access, and monitoring—so you’re not left guessing.