Compliance Advisory & Governance

A cybersecurity program can pass an audit and still be poorly governed, with controls implemented to satisfy a specific finding and with no process behind them for staying current as systems, personnel, and the regulatory framework itself change. That gap tends to surface at the worst time, during the next audit cycle or after an incident that reveals a control existed on paper but not in practice.

GSS builds governance structures that keep pace with the program rather than trailing it, with clear ownership for each control, documentation that reflects the system as it actually operates, and a review cadence that catches drift before a regulator does. For nuclear and adjacent critical-infrastructure environments, that means governance built by people who have sat on the regulator's side of the table. The cyber-physical division includes former U.S. NRC inspectors with direct experience developing federal cybersecurity requirements, so the advisory reflects what a review will actually test for.

This work is distinct from a one-time compliance assessment. It's the ongoing structure (policy, roles, documentation, and reporting) that makes a program's compliant status something the organization can demonstrate on any given day, not just reconstruct under pressure before an audit.