--- title: "Cybersecurity and GRC" description: "Assessments, hardening, and compliance advisory for enterprises in regulated industries." url: https://www.expandware.com/solutions/cybersecurity-and-grc/ section: "Solutions" topics: ["Zero Trust architecture design and implementation.", "Penetration testing and vulnerability management programs.", "SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and HIPAA-aligned compliance advisory."] publisher: "Expandware Private Limited" --- # Cybersecurity and GRC Assessments, hardening, and compliance advisory for enterprises in regulated industries. Security engineered in, compliance built to pass. Security bolted on before an audit fails the audit. We design Zero Trust architectures, test them the way attackers would, and build compliance programs aligned to the frameworks your customers and regulators actually ask about. What a defensible security program changes. Security work earns trust when controls, evidence, ownership, and response decisions hold together under an audit or an incident. Identity as the control plane. Access is mapped to roles, environments, and privileged actions so zero trust becomes an operating model rather than a presentation slide. Evidence that stays current. Policies, technical controls, review records, and risk decisions are structured to support the frameworks customers, auditors, and regulators ask about. A response your team can execute. Runbooks, escalation paths, and tabletop exercises turn incident response from a document into a practiced decision process. What we deliver: - Zero Trust architecture design and implementation. - Penetration testing and vulnerability management programs. - SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and HIPAA-aligned compliance advisory. - Security incident response planning and tabletop exercises. - Identity and access management architecture. How an engagement runs: Assess, What you run, and who can reach it. Harden, Zero Trust architecture and identity. Evidence, Controls mapped to the framework you are asked about. The result: An audit you can pass, Findings closed, evidence collected, exceptions documented. Critical findings reach you the day we find them. How engagements run. It starts with a paid assessment: Anything carrying real technical risk begins with a fixed-fee technical assessment, one to three days, producing a written findings document and a scoped fixed price for the build. Fixed price for defined scope: Once the scope is known from your systems rather than from a conversation, the build is priced as a fixed figure, with the assumptions it depends on written down alongside it. Monthly retainer for operations: Ongoing operational ownership runs on a monthly retainer against an agreed service level, so the cost of running a system is a number you can plan against. No hourly meters running against unknowns. Common questions: Q: Do you provide certification? A: We provide engineering, assessment, and readiness support aligned to applicable frameworks. Formal certification or attestation remains the role of an accredited independent assessor where one is required. Q: Can you work with our existing security team or provider? A: Yes. We commonly work alongside internal security, compliance, legal, and managed security teams with clear ownership and an evidence trail for decisions. Q: Where should we start if we have never had a security assessment? A: With the systems that would hurt most if they failed, not with a framework checklist. A first assessment maps what you run, who can reach it, and what an attacker would target, which is usually enough to reorder a security budget. Q: Can you help us respond to a client security questionnaire? A: Yes, and it is a common entry point. Those questionnaires are also a useful diagnostic: the questions you cannot answer confidently tend to be the same gaps a real assessment would find. Q: Do you test systems you built yourselves? A: We do, but we do not treat that as independent assurance. Where independence matters, and for anything customer facing it usually does, we recommend a separate testing party and will work alongside them. Q: What happens when you find something serious mid engagement? A: You hear about it the day we find it, not in the final report. Critical findings come with an immediate containment recommendation, and the written record follows. --- Canonical page: https://www.expandware.com/solutions/cybersecurity-and-grc/ Site index for machines: https://www.expandware.com/llms.txt Full site text: https://www.expandware.com/llms-full.txt Expandware Private Limited. Inquiries: solutions@expandware.com, +92 (333) 32 11011.