🛡️ Your hands-on guide through compliance

A clearer path through compliance.

Audits, controls, policies, evidence — the requirements are complex and easy to get wrong. Upstate InfoSec is your trusted advisor and technical partner: we guide you through readiness, help build the documentation, advise on the evidence you'll need, and support remediation. Compliance ultimately lives in your organization's day-to-day practices — our job is to help you get there and stay there.

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CMMC Level 1 & 2 SOC 2 Type II ISO 27001 NIST SP 800-171
A calm business owner working while an automated shield sustains their CMMC, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 compliance program
3Frameworks we guide you through: CMMC, SOC 2, ISO 27001
110NIST SP 800-171 controls we scope, build, and evidence
1Business day to hear back on any inquiry
USBased in South Carolina, serving clients nationwide
The problems we solve

Compliance is complex. We help you navigate it.

Every engagement starts with a business problem, not a checklist. Here's what we hear most often across the region.

Defense machine shop protected by a compliance enclave
Defense & aerospace suppliers
"Our prime sent a DFARS flowdown. We need CMMC Level 2 or we lose the contract — and we can't shut the floor down for an audit."

We help you scope and stand up an isolated CUI enclave to keep the audit boundary tight, support SSP authoring and POA&M tracking, and guide you through preparation for the C3PAO assessment.

SaaS platform earning a SOC 2 report to unlock enterprise deals
B2B SaaS & MSPs
"We're losing enterprise deals because we don't have a SOC 2 report, and our engineers have no time to build audit trails and write 20+ policies."

We help configure the controls, set up evidence collection, draft the policy set with you, and guide you through readiness for the independent CPA examination for SOC 2 Type II.

Mid-market office backed by an embedded security team clearing vendor questionnaires
Mid-market operators
"Vendor questionnaires and new regulations keep landing on us. Our IT team runs helpdesk — they don't do GRC or zero-trust hardening."

We act as your embedded security advisor: guiding an ISO 27001 or SOC 2 program, assisting with Entra ID hardening, and supporting the ongoing reviews that keep it defensible year-round.

Advisory-only vs. hands-on

Most firms hand you a spreadsheet.
We build the controls.

Advisory-only consultants tell you what's wrong and leave you to fix it alone. We're a hands-on partner: we can work in the tenant alongside your team, help configure controls, and guide the program through the audit — while your organization stays in the driver's seat.

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Scope isolation, done right

Compliant CUI enclaves on GCC High or Azure Government keep your audit boundary tight — and your production environment out of scope.

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Hands-on in the tenant

Conditional Access, PIM, RBAC, phishing-resistant MFA, EDR rollout, BitLocker, DMARC — we roll up our sleeves and help configure them with your team, not just hand you homework.

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Evidence that holds up

Automated evidence pipelines and clear audit trails, so surveillance audits and Type II periods don't turn into fire drills.

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We stay through the audit

We support your communication with the C3PAO, the CPA firm, and the ISO registrar — helping translate findings and prepare your responses.

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Staying compliant

We help you run access reviews, vendor assessments, policy revisions, and tooling health checks so the program stays alive between certifications — with adherence embedded in your team's workflow.

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Built for lean teams

Priced and scoped for 10–100 person shops and lean SaaS teams — the enterprise result without an enterprise headcount.

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AI-accelerated, human-verified

We use AI on parts of the workflow to move faster on complex tasks — always with a human in the loop reviewing and verifying every result. AI helps us deliver quality sooner; it never replaces the review.

Gap-to-audit path

A clear path from "we're not ready" to "we passed."

Milestone-driven sprints with a fixed fee, so you know the scope and the cost before we start.

Step 1

Discovery & gap assessment

We map your environment against the framework and give you a prioritized, honest gap report.

Step 2

Remediation & enclave build

We help architect the enclave and configure the technical controls to close those gaps.

Step 3

Policy & evidence buildout

We help draft the policy set and advise on the evidence pipelines auditors will ask for.

Step 4

Mock audit & readiness

We dry-run the assessment, help address what surfaces, and prepare you for audit day.

Start here

Tell us which deal compliance is blocking.

Send a short note about your framework and deadline. We'll respond within one business day with a straight answer on scope and next steps.

Whether you have a prime's flowdown clause in hand or a stalled enterprise deal, we'll give you an honest read on what the path to compliance takes — and what it'll cost.

📧 support@upstateinfosec.com
📞 (253) 394-4152
📍 Based in Greenville, SC — serving clients across the United States
🕐 Mon–Fri, 9am–6pm ET