Cyber Assurance
Assurance That Isn't
Grading Its Own Work.
The Forte Cyber Assurance Team reviews and signs off on your security and compliance work, kept separate from whoever delivers it, so what you hand an auditor, insurer, or client holds up.
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Why It Matters
The people who vet your security have stopped taking your word for it. Insurers price on the controls you attest to. Primes come back to verify what they flow down, and examiners want proof that someone other than the team running your controls has checked them.
When the same group builds a control and then vouches for it, the vouching doesn't carry far. Assurance is worth something only when it comes from a party that didn't do the work.
What’s Included
Assurance is scoped to the frameworks you actually answer to. A physician group gets HIPAA, an RIA gets SEC and privacy, a defense contractor gets CMMC. Depending on your world, that can include:
Posture Assessments
A clear read on where your security and compliance actually stand, performed by Cyber Assurance, not the delivery team.
Framework Readiness & Attestation
Your evidence for the frameworks you answer to, HIPAA, SOC 2 Type I and II readiness, SEC Regulation S-P, PCI, CMMC, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001, and others, reviewed and organized before the audit, not assembled the week of.
CMMC Readiness and Maintenance
For defense contractors and regulated manufacturers, Forte provides CMMC readiness services, prepares organizations for the C3PAO assessment, and supports ongoing Level 2 maintenance after certification.
Cyber Assurance Reporting
Receive documented conclusions regarding security posture, evidence readiness, control observations, and open risks. Reports are reviewed through Forte’s Cyber Assurance governance process and clearly identify their scope and limitations.
Ongoing Oversight
Review on a set cadence, so assurance is a function that runs, not a once-a-year event.
The Forte Difference
Most providers answer the assurance question by pointing back at the team that runs your security and asking you to trust them twice. Forte separates the jobs: one team delivers, the Forte Cyber Assurance Team reviews, and a risk committee signs what goes out the door. It's one company, with the review walled off from delivery on purpose, so “checked by a separate team” is a stronger place to stand than “we reviewed our own work,” in front of an auditor, an insurer, or a client's security questionnaire. And you don't have to be a Forte managed-services client to work with us. Cyber Assurance stands on its own, reviewing whoever runs your IT, in-house or another provider.
Cyber Assurance, Tailored to Your Organization
Compliance support can scale between Secure and Comply. Organizations that need ongoing assurance without a fully managed compliance program can pair Secure with Assure.
Assure
A lighter compliance assurance program commonly paired with Secure.
Scheduled readiness reviews, safeguard checks, representative evidence validation, risk and gap tracking, and reporting. Forte provides oversight and confirms that required activities are being addressed; the customer operates controls and completes remediation.
Comply
A robust managed compliance program included in the Comply tier.
Builds on the same assurance foundation with ongoing governance, managed evidence, recurring control validation, risk and remediation management, vendor oversight, executive reporting, compliance-integrated security operations, and a dedicated vCISO.
Where It Fits
The review layer over your security and compliance, whether Forte runs your IT or another provider does, held separate from whoever builds and operates it. Pairs with: