Compliance Readiness Advisory

Examiner ready. Delivered.

MSPs and IT service providers get asked the compliance questions their stack was never built to answer. Veritaq is the bench behind your brand: assessments, policy documentation, and remediation plans that hold up in front of examiners, auditors, and assessors. ISOs, ISVs, embedded payment platforms, community banks, and credit unions engage us directly, each with an engagement built around their own regulatory obligations. AI accelerates the work. The judgment behind it stays human.

Who We Serve
MSP Partners · ISOs · ISVs · Embedded Payments · Banks · Credit Unions
Deliverables
Gap Report · Policy Drafts · Remediation Plan
Frameworks

Aligned to the standards QSAs, examiners, and auditors apply

Every engagement is structured around the specific regulatory framework your organization is subject to, not generic compliance checklists. Each one produces the complete deliverable set: gap assessment with prioritized findings, board ready policy documentation, and a remediation plan mapped to the framework's actual requirements.

PCI DSS v4.0.1

Payment Card Industry

Readiness assessment and SAQ preparation for ISOs, ISVs, community banks, and credit unions that store, process, or transmit cardholder data. Gap documentation and policy drafts structured for preparation ahead of QSA and ASV engagement.

FFIEC

IT Examination Handbook

The primary supervisory framework for bank technology and cybersecurity. Covers IT governance, risk management, access controls, incident response, vendor management, and business continuity, the domains FDIC, OCC, and Federal Reserve examiners assess.

NCUA

Credit Union Requirements

NCUA cybersecurity and information security requirements for federally insured credit unions, including alignment to the updated Automated Cybersecurity Evaluation Tool (ACET) framework replacing the retired FFIEC CAT.

NYDFS 23 NYCRR 500

New York Financial Services

New York's cybersecurity regulation for institutions licensed by the Department of Financial Services. Readiness for the governance, access control, risk assessment, and reporting obligations that apply to covered entities operating in New York.

GLBA

Safeguards Rule

The GLBA Safeguards Rule requirements for protecting customer financial information. For banks and credit unions, and for the businesses outside banking the Rule also covers: auto dealerships, CPA and tax firms, mortgage and finance companies, and other financial institutions under FTC jurisdiction.

SOC 2

Trust Services Criteria

Gap assessment and control mapping against the AICPA Trust Services Criteria for service organizations handling customer data. Relevant for ISVs, ISOs, and fintech companies whose bank and credit union clients require third party assurance.

For MSPs & IT Service Providers

Your clients' compliance function, on your bench

Compliance requests from your clients rarely fit the services you sell. The work stalls, the client relationship carries the strain, and hiring a compliance lead rarely pencils out. We deliver the entire engagement as your compliance partner, under a model built to protect the relationship you own.

The relationship

Your client stays yours

We work behind the scenes as your compliance bench, and deliverables can carry your brand. The client relationship stays where it belongs: with you.

The engagement

Defined, repeatable, easy to offer

Scoping call, structured assessment, a findings register with an owner ready action plan, and policy drafts your client's board can act on. Scope and pricing agreed up front.

Your book

Built for the clients you already have

Merchants under card network requirements. Dealerships, accounting firms, and lenders with federal safeguards obligations. Software companies asked for security assurance. Banks and credit unions ahead of examinations.

The handoff

One point of contact, end to end

When an engagement calls for a formal attestation, a certified audit, or specialized testing, we help your client engage the right specialists and coordinate the work through completion.

Add compliance to your line card without hiring for it.
One conversation to scope the partnership. Bring a client scenario and we will walk through exactly how delivery works.
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Who We Serve

Built for payment technology companies and the institutions they serve

We specialize in the compliance gap between what your payment infrastructure covers and what your actual regulatory obligation requires.

Ahead of the QSA

ISOs & ISVs

PCI DSS service provider readiness for independent sales organizations and software vendors. Scoping, gap assessment, policy documentation, and AOC preparation: the compliance program no merchant portal or processor platform was built to deliver.

Becoming a PayFac

Embedded Payments & PayFacs

Every ISV that becomes a payment facilitator inherits a service provider PCI obligation that stalls merchant onboarding and creates unaddressed liability. Veritaq closes the readiness gap before the formal assessment, scoped to your payment model.

Ahead of the exam

Community Banks & Credit Unions

Examination readiness, safeguards alignment, information security policy development, and board level compliance reporting, without the cost of a full cycle engagement from a large firm. Examiner ready documentation for institutions that need to move fast.

Proving posture

Fintechs & Technology Partners

Compliance assessment and documentation for technology firms serving regulated institutions, structured for firms that need to demonstrate their security posture to bank and credit union clients.

How It Works

A complete engagement in a single week

Most firms take three to four weeks and deliver a gap list. We deliver a complete package, ready for the board, the examiner, or the QSA.

1

Scoping Call

We establish the applicable frameworks, organization profile, and upcoming examination or assessment timeline. Engagement scope and pricing confirmed before any work begins.

2

Structured Assessment

A guided assessment mapped to current examiner and QSA expectations. Designed for your IT, compliance, or security lead, with no prior framework expertise required.

3

Deliverable Package

Gap report with prioritized findings, policy drafts for identified deficiencies, and a stakeholder ready presentation, delivered within five business days.

Five business days, start to deliverable.
Scope on Monday. Board ready, examiner ready, QSA ready by Friday.
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Our Approach

The consulting model is moving. We are moving with it.

Advisory work is being rebuilt around AI. Engagements that once ran for weeks now close in days. Veritaq is built for that shift rather than pretending it is not happening. But faster is not the same as automated. The mechanical work runs on AI. The judgment, the interpretation, and the accountability for what an examiner or QSA will actually accept stay with a practitioner. That is the line we hold, and it is the line that keeps the work defensible.

Built for the shift

Accelerated, not automated

AI compresses the drafting, control mapping, and first pass scoring that used to consume an engagement. The work that takes experience still gets it. You get the speed of software with the judgment of an advisor who has sat across from examiners and QSAs.

Deterministic

Grounded, not guessed

Assessments run on a deterministic engine. Scoring, SAQ routing, and requirement mapping follow encoded logic drawn from the standards themselves, so the same inputs produce the same assessment every time. AI drafts the language. The logic underneath does not improvise.

Integrity

What the examiner will find

Every conclusion is reviewed and owned by an experienced practitioner. We tell you what an examiner or QSA will actually see, not what a model hopes. Honest readiness you can defend, never a false sense of compliance.

Independence by design

Readiness and verification stay separate

We prepare organizations for the people who verify them. Formal attestations and certified audits come from independent CPA firms and Qualified Security Assessors, exactly as professional standards intend, and we coordinate with them rather than compete with them. You get an advisor with no incentive to grade their own homework, and a deliverable built to hold up when the verifier arrives.

About

We have sat on both sides of the table.

Veritaq Advisory was founded by a CISA certified compliance professional with over a decade of experience across external audit, financial services examination, and in house GRC leadership.

We have worked on both sides of the compliance equation, advising regulated institutions on examination readiness and building compliance programs from the ground up inside high growth fintech companies. That dual perspective shapes how every Veritaq engagement is structured: we know what examiners and QSAs look for because we have spent years preparing organizations to face them.

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