RiskRoadmapReadiness
Cybersecurity Gap Assessment
Identify your current security and compliance gaps, prioritize the highest-risk items, and receive a practical roadmap.
Founder-led cybersecurity and compliance advisory
Cybersecurity and compliance support that helps growing teams look ready, credible, and in control
If you need to get audit-ready, answer buyer security questions with confidence, reduce healthcare or vendor risk, or prepare for ISO 27001, NIST CSF, or SOC 2, the work should feel clear and manageable.
Eight Limbs Consultancy helps teams move from scattered documents, vague risk, and reactive fixes into a practical program they can actually run.
Direct founder-led advisory
Previous client experience includes Ontario Health and The PREP Clinic
Support for healthcare, SaaS, and regulated environments
Useful before a certification push, buyer review, or bigger security spend
What working together usually looks like
1
Assess
Review your systems, policies, risks, vendors, and documentation.
2
Prioritize
Rank gaps by business risk, audit impact, and implementation effort.
3
Implement
Build practical controls, policies, evidence, and workflows.
4
Maintain
Keep the program ready through reviews, updates, and advisory.
A smaller, more direct way to get security and compliance help
Not every company needs a giant firm, a long diagnostic, or a huge slide deck before the real work starts.
You work directly with the founder doing the advisory work
Healthcare, SaaS, and regulated SMEs are a core focus
Support is built around what your team can realistically maintain
Selected previous clients
Ontario Health
The PREP Clinic
What this should help you do
The point is not more paperwork. The point is stronger trust, clearer decisions, and less drag on the team.
A clear view of the gaps slowing deals, audits, or regulated growth
A practical roadmap your team can actually execute
Policies, controls, and evidence that stand up to real scrutiny
Stronger readiness for audits, buyer reviews, and leadership decisions
Ways we can work together
Some teams need a focused assessment. Others need framework support, policy work, buyer-readiness help, or ongoing advisory.
NIST CSFControlsMaturity
NIST Cybersecurity Framework Advisory
Align your cybersecurity program with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework using practical controls, documentation, and measurable progress.
ISO 27001ISMSAudit
ISO 27001 Readiness
Prepare your organization for ISO 27001 by building the policies, controls, evidence, and internal readiness needed for certification.
SOC 2EvidenceTrust
SOC 2 Readiness
Build the foundation for SOC 2 readiness with control mapping, policy development, evidence planning, and audit preparation.
LeadershipOngoingGovernance
vCISO Advisory
Ongoing cybersecurity leadership for organizations that need senior guidance without hiring a full-time security executive.
PoliciesRoadmapControls
Compliance Roadmaps and Policy Development
Create practical security policies, control owners, remediation plans, and compliance roadmaps your team can actually maintain.
HealthcareEHRVendor Risk
Healthcare Cybersecurity and EHR Compliance Support
Support clinics and healthcare organizations with practical safeguards around EHR systems, sensitive data, vendor risk, and compliance expectations.
IntegratedGovernanceEvidence
Integrated Compliance Program Support
Bring related standards, controls, policies, evidence, and improvement work into one practical compliance program.
Frameworks we commonly support
The work is shaped around the framework you need and the amount of structure your team can realistically keep up with.
NIST Cybersecurity Framework
Structure your cybersecurity program around practical, measurable outcomes.
ISO 27001
Prepare policies, controls, evidence, and governance for certification readiness.
SOC 2
Build SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria readiness for client reviews and future audits.
ISO 20000
Connect service management practices with clearer operational controls.
ISO 9001
Support quality management alignment where compliance programs overlap.
Healthcare / EHR security expectations
Support safeguards around patient data, access, vendors, and backups.
Vendor security questionnaires
Prepare clearer answers and evidence for customer and partner reviews.
Integrated management systems
Reduce duplicate effort across related standards, controls, and evidence.
How the work usually moves
The process is meant to create momentum, not stall your team in endless planning.
01
Discover
We review your current systems, policies, risks, documentation, and business goals.
02
Prioritize
We identify the most important gaps and build a right-sized roadmap.
03
Implement
We help create policies, controls, evidence, and workflows your team can actually use.
04
Maintain
We support ongoing readiness through advisory, reviews, and continuous improvement.
Example engagement
Healthcare clinic compliance readiness
An illustrative example of how Eight Limbs Consultancy can structure assessment, roadmap, and readiness work for a regulated healthcare environment.
This is a representative engagement pattern, not a named client story. It shows the shape of the work, the decisions involved, and the kind of output a team can expect.
- Client type
- Healthcare clinic or regulated care provider.
- Challenge
- Prepare for clearer security expectations around EHR systems, vendors, policies, and sensitive data.
- Typical scope
- Assessment, prioritized roadmap, policy review, evidence planning, and leadership summary.
- Typical work performed
- Review current safeguards, identify gaps, map practical controls, organize next steps, and align owners.
- Typical output
- A clearer readiness path, a maintainable compliance workplan, and a leadership-friendly summary of priorities.
How the work feels
Direct advisory without layers of handoff
Clear priorities before documentation work expands
Roadmaps shaped around real team capacity
Support that stays practical, buyer-aware, and audit-aware
Founder-led advisory
Practical cybersecurity guidance from a focused consultancy, built for real-world scrutiny
Eight Limbs Consultancy was built to help growing organizations understand cybersecurity and compliance without unnecessary complexity. The goal is simple: clear assessments, practical roadmaps, and implementation support that fits the size, pressure, and reality of the business.
Previous client experience includes work with Ontario Health and The PREP Clinic, alongside support for growing teams that need practical, audit-ready progress and clearer buyer-facing confidence.
The work is intentionally direct and practical: fewer layers, clearer priorities, and support that helps a team keep moving after the first assessment is complete instead of getting buried in shelfware.
Practical assessments
Buyer and audit readiness
Right-sized controls
Common questions
A few simple answers before you reach out.
Next step
Tell us what is blocking progress
Share your framework, timeline, buyer pressure, or biggest blocker and you will get a practical recommendation on what to do next.