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 evaluating your security are not relying on your word alone. Insurers assess the controls you attest to. Prime contractors come back to verify the requirements they flow down. Examiners, auditors, and other stakeholders expect documented evidence that controls are operating as intended.
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.
How we help
The Forte Cyber Assurance Team evaluates your security and compliance posture separately from those who implement and operate your controls, giving your organization greater confidence in what it presents to auditors, insurers, customers, boards, and other stakeholders.
Assurance is scoped to the frameworks you actually answer to. A physician group gets HIPAA, an RIA gets SEC and privacy, and a defense contractor gets CMMC. We help you assess, implement, and/or maintain a program aligned to the frameworks that matter to your business:
Assess Your Readiness
Understand where your security and compliance stand, identify gaps, and establish a prioritized roadmap.
Framework Readiness & Evidence Review
Your evidence for HIPAA, SOC 2 Type I and II, SEC Regulation S-P, GLBA, PCI DSS, CMMC, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, and other applicable requirements, reviewed and organized well before the audit — not scrambled together the week of.
Implement Your Program
Build your compliance program with the policies, procedures, controls, and evidence practices needed to meet your requirements.
Security & Compliance Reporting
Get a clear view of your security posture, readiness, and open risks through documented findings and executive reporting reviewed through Forte’s Cyber Assurance governance process.
Maintain Your Program
Keep your program current through recurring reviews, evidence updates, risk tracking, and support as requirements and your business change
Advisory, Validation & Testing
Get targeted vCISO guidance, control reviews, and security testing to identify gaps, prioritize improvements, and support business decisions.
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.
Includes 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: