RIZQ
vCISO · vCIO · certified risk assessments

Executive security leadership, measured every quarter.

Executive-level security and IT leadership without an executive salary. We sit with your leadership team, own the compliance program and act on your behalf at every level of IT administration.

  • vCISO
  • vCIO
  • SOX · HIPAA · PCI
  • NIST · CIS · CMMC · FedRAMP
  • FDA 21 CFR Part 11
  • Certified assessors
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HIPAAmanaged security-officer programs
8frameworks: SOX, HIPAA, PCI, NIST, CIS, CMMC, FedRAMP, Part 11
certifiedrisk management assessors
boardready reporting

Compliance, Risk and Executive Advisory

What is at stake

Without a managed program, every gap is an incident waiting.

Nobody owns the program

Policies exist in a binder; no one is accountable for evidence when the auditor or examiner arrives.

Questionnaire-based risk

Self-assessments say "yes" to controls that were never tested.

IT spend without a roadmap

Purchases driven by vendors and emergencies instead of the business plan.

Insurance and regulators

Cyber-insurance renewals and regulatory exams now demand proof.

What RIZQ delivers

The same scenarios, handled.

A named security officer

Accountable for the program, policies and evidence, without an executive salary.

Certified assessments

Scored, evidence-based assessments aligned to recognized control frameworks.

A roadmap and a budget

vCIO planning that leadership can read and fund.

Board-ready reporting

Quarterly posture, remediation tracking, annual attestation package.

Why it matters

Certified

Certified Risk Management Assessors

Our assessors are certified by our compliance-platform partner to deliver scored, defensible assessments.

Backed by operations

Advice from people who run it

The same team operates the SOC and help desk, so every recommendation is grounded in production.

04How the program works

The integration chain

Testing feeds governance; governance directs testing. Findings become a roadmap, the roadmap becomes evidence.

  1. Findingsassess

    Certified assessment and validated testing feed the risk register.

  2. Roadmapplan

    Prioritized initiatives aligned to your compliance calendar and budget.

  3. Executeexecute

    Controls implemented, policies adopted, remediation worked through tickets.

  4. Reportreport

    Quarterly executive reviews with maturity metrics and risk trends.

  5. Evidenceprove

    Audit-ready documentation for SOX, HIPAA, PCI, CMMC, insurers and clients.

05With RIZQ vs without

Four scenarios from this service.

The same situation handled two ways.

ControlManaged program · 4/4No program owner · 0/4
01HIPAA audit or OCR inquiry
Pass: ready

Risk analysis, policies, training records and evidence produced from the compliance platform.

Fail: scramble

Weeks assembling documents that may not exist.

02SOX ITGC audit
Pass: evidenced

Access, change and operations controls tested with evidence on file for the external auditor.

Fail: deficiency

Control deficiency reported to the audit committee.

03Cyber-insurance renewal
Pass: attested

Questionnaire answered from tested controls; premiums reflect posture.

Fail: declined

Coverage reduced or declined for unverified controls.

04Annual budget
Pass: planned

Roadmap with priced initiatives tied to risk and business goals.

Fail: reactive

Spend driven by the last outage.

05bThe framework stack

Eight frameworks. One platform. One assessor.

Everything we are certified to assess against on the FortMesa platform, from SEC-regulated financial reporting to FDA-validated systems and the federal supply chain.

  • SOXSarbanes-OxleySEC-regulated public companies

    IT general controls over financial reporting: access, change, operations.

  • HIPAAHIPAA Security RuleHealthcare, pharmacy, business associates

    Risk analysis, safeguards, named security officer, breach readiness.

  • PCI DSSPayment Card IndustryAnyone storing or processing card data

    Cardholder environment isolation, monitoring and testing.

  • NISTNIST CSF and SP 800-171Enterprises and federal suppliers

    Risk-based control framework and protection of controlled unclassified information.

  • CISCIS Critical Security ControlsEvery organization

    Prioritized safeguards, IG1 to IG3, the backbone of our assessments.

  • CMMCCybersecurity Maturity Model CertificationDepartment of Defense supply chain

    Assessed maturity levels required to hold defense contracts.

  • FedRAMPFederal Risk and AuthorizationCloud services sold to federal agencies

    Authorization baselines and continuous monitoring readiness.

  • Part 11FDA 21 CFR Part 11Pharma, life sciences, pharmacy services

    Electronic records and signatures: audit trails, validation, access control.

06Deliverables

What you receive, group by group.

Three numbered groups: what we put in place, what runs every cycle, and what lands on your desk.

01
vCISO program
  • Risk assessment and maturity baseline
  • Policy set, procedures and training records
  • Managed compliance platform with evidence tracking
  • Vulnerability and remediation management
02
Regulatory alignment
  • SOX IT general controls for SEC-regulated companies
  • HIPAA security-officer program and FDA 21 CFR Part 11 for life sciences
  • PCI DSS, CIS Controls and NIST CSF / 800-171 mapping
  • CMMC and FedRAMP readiness for federal supply chains
  • Audit, examiner and cyber-insurance response support
03
vCIO advisory
  • Technology roadmap and annual budget
  • Vendor and contract oversight
  • Project portfolio and NOC operations oversight
  • Executive and board reporting
What lands on your desk. Quarterly risk posture report for leadership · Annual assessment and attestation package · Remediation tracker reviewed monthly

07The operating cadence

Assess. Plan. Execute. Report.

The same sequence every cycle, so every period's numbers are comparable to the last.

  1. Findingsvalidated, scored
  2. Roadmapprioritized, budgeted
  3. Executecontrols and policies
  4. Reportboard-ready
  5. Evidenceaudit package

the same chain every quarter, so maturity scores are comparable period to period

Assess

Maturity and risk re-scored.

Plan

Roadmap and budget adjusted.

Execute

Initiatives and remediation delivered.

Report

Executive and board review.

08Why RIZQ

One partner, the whole stack.

CertifiedCertified Risk Management Assessors

Our assessors are certified by our compliance-platform partner to deliver scored, defensible assessments.

Backed by operationsAdvice from people who run it

The same team operates the SOC and help desk, so every recommendation is grounded in production.

Regulated depthEight frameworks, one platform

SOX, HIPAA, PCI DSS, NIST, CIS Controls, CMMC, FedRAMP and FDA 21 CFR Part 11 on the FortMesa platform we are certified to assess against.

BilingualBoard reporting in Spanish or English

Executive summaries written for the room that reads them.

09Next steps

From conversation to live service.

Each step has a defined exit. Nothing is open-ended.

  1. 1
    Assess

    Certified assessment, gap analysis, prioritized plan.

    2–4 weeks
    Exit: baseline
  2. 2
    Build

    Policies, controls and evidence collection put in place.

    2–6 months
    Exit: program
  3. 3
    Govern

    Quarterly reviews, annual reassessment, board reporting.

    quarterly
    Exit: live
Board-ready reporting, a defensible compliance posture and IT spend that maps to business priorities.
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