Cybersecurity Compliance Services
There are two ways to discover a compliance gap: in a planning meeting, where it becomes a budget line — or in an audit, where it becomes a finding, a deadline, and sometimes a fine. Same gap. Very different year.
Pinnacle IT helps compliance-driven organizations across Arkansas find their gaps first. We map your environment against the framework you answer to, produce real-time compliance reporting with gap analysis, and cost the remediation line by line so nothing your auditor finds is a surprise.
Which compliance frameworks do we support?
HIPAA — healthcare organizations and their business associates
The HIPAA Security Rule requires administrative, physical, and technical safeguards for electronic protected health information — from access controls and audit logging to contingency planning and workforce training. And the bar is rising. The Department of Health and Human Services has proposed a major Security Rule update that would make multi-factor authentication, encryption of ePHI at rest and in transit, annual technology asset inventories, and network segmentation explicit requirements. Organizations that build toward those controls now will meet the update as a formality, not a fire drill.
CJIS & ACIC — anything that touches criminal justice data
The FBI’s CJIS Security Policy 6.0 is the most significant modernization of these requirements in over a decade, with a compliance deadline of October 1, 2027. The shift that catches agencies off guard: you must now demonstrate your controls work, not just assert that they exist. We’ve walked Arkansas cities through CJIS audits, remediated the findings, and produced the documentation reviewers actually accept.
CMMC & NIST 800-171 — manufacturers and the defense supply chain
CMMC is no longer coming — it’s here. The Department of Defense’s acquisition rule took effect November 10, 2025, and requirements are phasing into new contracts now, with third-party certification requirements expanding through 2028. If you handle controlled unclassified information or supply someone who does, your required CMMC level must be met at contract award. No certification, no contract. We assess against NIST 800-171, close the gaps, and prepare you for assessment.
PCI DSS — anyone who takes card payments
PCI DSS v4.0.1 is fully in effect, including the formerly “future-dated” requirements that became mandatory in March 2025. If residents pay utility bills by card, if patients pay copays, if clients pay retainers online — this scope applies to your network, whether anyone told you or not.
IRS 1075 — agencies handling federal tax information
Where federal tax information is received, stored, or processed, IRS Publication 1075 requires specific controls and documentation. Both have to exist, and both get inspected.
What does a compliance engagement look like?
1. Gap assessment
We map your current environment against your framework, control by control. Our governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) tooling produces real-time reporting, not a PDF that’s stale the day it’s delivered.
2. Risk-ranked remediation plan
Every gap gets a risk rating and a cost. You get a prioritized plan you can take to your leadership team, board, or council, broken into fundable pieces across budget cycles.
3. Remediation and documentation
We close the technical gaps and build the paper trail: written policies, access reviews, onboarding and offboarding records, and the evidence your auditor will ask to see.
4. Ongoing compliance management
Frameworks change and environments drift. Continuous monitoring and annual policy reviews keep you compliant between audits — not just during them.
What we look for in a compliance gap assessment
- Controls that exist in a policy document but not in the actual environment
- MFA and access-control gaps your framework explicitly requires closed
- Audit logs that aren’t retained long enough — or aren’t reviewed at all
- Missing or outdated written policies (most were written once and never touched)
- No documented evidence for controls that actually do work — which auditors treat as not working
- Vendor and business associate relationships with no security verification behind them
An honest note about compliance
No single tool makes you compliant, and anyone who says otherwise is selling you the tool. Frameworks require technology, policy, process, and documentation working together. That’s why our compliance practice pairs GRC tooling with senior security consultants — and why our findings hold up when the auditor shows up.
Find your gaps before your auditor does. Schedule a compliance gap assessment and get a risk-ranked, costed picture of exactly where you stand.
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Cybsecurity Compliance FAQs
What’s the difference between being secure and being compliant?
Security protects you from attackers; compliance proves it to a third party. You can be reasonably secure and still fail an audit for missing documentation — and you can pass a checklist audit while being genuinely vulnerable. We build programs that do both, because you’ll eventually be tested by both.
How do we know which frameworks apply to us?
Usually more frameworks apply to you than you think. A city might answer to CJIS for its police department, PCI DSS for utility payments, and IRS 1075 for tax information — simultaneously. A manufacturer might face CMMC from one contract and customer security questionnaires from three others. The gap assessment starts by mapping which obligations actually apply.
Our audit is already scheduled. Can you help on short notice?
Yes. We do audit preparation on compressed timelines: evidence gathering, rapid gap identification, and remediation prioritized by what the auditor will check first. The earlier you call, the more we can fix rather than explain.
What does CMMC mean for a small manufacturer?
If any current or target contract involves controlled unclassified information, you’ll need to meet CMMC Level 2 — an assessment against the 110 controls of NIST 800-171 — and requirements are phasing into DoD contracts between now and 2028. Starting early matters: remediation typically spans multiple budget cycles, and certification queues are growing.
Do you offer ongoing compliance support or just one-time assessments?
Both. Many clients start with a gap assessment, then move to a monthly consulting retainer covering policy updates, evidence maintenance, annual reviews, and audit support — so compliance stays current instead of resetting every audit cycle.