BlueKey IT helps defense contractors, healthcare practices, accounting firms, and other regulated businesses meet NIST 800-171, CMMC, HIPAA, FTC Safeguards, PCI DSS, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 requirements, prepare for cyber insurance, and stay compliant month after month.
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NIST 800-171 and CMMC · HIPAA · FTC Safeguards · PCI and SOC 2 readiness · vCISO leadership
Certified expertise, local teams, and response times written into the agreement.
CyberAB Registered Practitioners (RPs) and Certified CMMC Professionals (CCPs) on staff.
200+ business clients and 6,000 monitored endpoints across regulated industries.
Critical issues answered within 1 hour, with an average help desk first response of 30 minutes.
Teams in Arizona, Colorado, Texas, Utah, Kansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina.
A virtual Chief Information Security Officer who owns your program, not just your tickets.
Per-user monthly pricing, with month-to-month agreements for smaller businesses and annual agreements with a 90-day out period for larger engagements.
Cybersecurity and compliance are related but different. Cybersecurity is the broader practice of protecting systems, networks, data, and users from threats. Compliance means meeting specific security requirements established by regulations, contracts, industry standards, or customers. A strong compliance program should support your cybersecurity program rather than replace it.
A business can meet a specific compliance requirement and still have security weaknesses. BlueKey IT helps organizations address both sides: implementing the technical controls needed to reduce risk and maintaining the documentation required to demonstrate compliance.
NIST 800-171 and CMMCFor defense contractors and subcontractors handling FCI or CUI.
HIPAAFor medical and dental practices.
FTC Safeguards RuleFor tax preparers, accounting firms, and other financial businesses.
PCI DSSFor businesses that accept card payments.
SOC 2 ReadinessFor companies whose customers ask for a SOC 2 report.
ISO 27001 ReadinessFor businesses pursuing ISO 27001 certification.
Cybersecurity InsuranceFor businesses applying for or renewing cyber insurance.Defense contractors and subcontractors are contractually required to protect the government information they handle. Federal Contract Information (FCI) must meet the 15 basic safeguarding requirements in FAR 52.204-21, which map to CMMC Level 1. Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) must be protected to the 110 security requirements of NIST SP 800-171 Rev. 2 under DFARS 252.204-7012, with a self-assessment score posted to SPRS. That is CMMC Level 2, where most CUI holders land.
What changed on July 13, 2026: The Department of War suspended CMMC Phase II, which would have required third-party (C3PAO) certification as a condition of contract award starting November 10, 2026, and formed a CMMC Reform Task Force to review the program. Phase I remains in effect, so Level 1 and Level 2 self-assessments, SPRS scores, and annual affirmations are still required, and the Department continues to verify compliance through select government-led assessments. The suspension changed how compliance is verified, not what is required, and inaccurate cybersecurity attestations still carry False Claims Act risk.
We help you meet the standard now and stay ready for whatever the review produces. We scope your CUI environment tightly (including enclave options that reduce cost), run a formal gap assessment against all 110 requirements, calculate an accurate SPRS score, build your System Security Plan (SSP) and Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M), and support your annual affirmation. If you want a voluntary third-party certification to strengthen your standing with primes, we prepare you and coordinate the assessment with a C3PAO authorized by The Cyber AB. See our CMMC compliance services, learn more in What Is CMMC Certification? or see our local CMMC services in Arizona, Colorado, Texas, Utah, and Tennessee.
Medical and dental practices that handle protected health information need administrative, physical, and technical safeguards in place, plus a documented risk analysis. We sign Business Associate Agreements, run your security risk analysis or work with your compliance officer or partner, implement the technical safeguards, including encryption, access controls, secure email, backups, and audit logging, and help you document it. HHS proposed a major update to the Security Rule in January 2025. As of October 2026 it is still a proposed rule, and the current Security Rule remains in effect. See our HIPAA IT compliance services, and our medical and dental IT services. For more details, refer to the HHS HIPAA enforcement guidance.
Tax preparers, accounting firms, mortgage brokers, and other non-bank financial businesses are covered by the FTC Safeguards Rule, which requires a written information security program, multi-factor authentication, encryption, and a designated Qualified Individual to oversee it. IRS Publication 5708 states that tax and accounting professionals are considered financial institutions regardless of size. Covered firms must also notify the FTC within 30 days of discovering a breach involving unencrypted information on 500 or more consumers. We implement the required controls and can support the oversight role. Read our full guide to FTC Safeguards Rule compliance, or see our accounting firm IT services.
Any business that stores, processes, or transmits payment card data is expected to meet the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. PCI DSS v4.0.1 is the current version, and the requirements that v4.0 marked as future-dated became mandatory on March 31, 2025. We map how you take payments, reduce what is in scope, implement network, access, and monitoring controls, and prepare the evidence your acquirer expects. See our guide to PCI DSS compliance.
Enterprise customers often ask vendors for a SOC 2 report, which is an attestation issued by a licensed CPA firm, not a certification. We assess your controls against the AICPA Trust Services Criteria, close technical gaps, build the policies and evidence, and keep controls running through your audit period. We are not a CPA firm, so we work alongside the auditor you choose. See our guide to SOC 2 readiness.
ISO/IEC 27001:2022 is the current edition of the international standard for an information security management system, and certificates now reference the 2022 edition after the transition from 2013 ended on October 31, 2025. Only an accredited certification body can certify your business. We support your management system, implement the technical controls, and build the records your certification body will ask for. See our guide to ISO 27001 readiness.
Cyber insurance applications and renewals ask detailed questions about MFA, endpoint detection and response, backups, patching, email security, training, and incident response, and the answers should be backed by evidence. We close technical gaps, document what is in place, and run a Kaseya security stack that is pre-approved by Cysurance, which can streamline the application for eligible businesses. See our guide to cybersecurity insurance readiness.
Timelines depend on your starting point and scope.
We review your environment, policies, and data flows against the framework that applies to you and score where you stand.
We narrow scope to the systems that actually handle regulated data, then prioritize gaps by effort, cost, and timeline.
Our engineers deploy the technical controls: MFA, encryption, logging, endpoint protection, backups, and secure configurations.
We produce the policies, procedures, SSP, and evidence that assessors and auditors evaluate.
Your vCISO tracks changes, reviews controls, trains your team, and keeps you ready for your next assessment.
Cybersecurity compliance means meeting the security requirements set by a law, regulation, contract, or industry standard that applies to your business, such as NIST 800-171 and CMMC for defense contractors, HIPAA for healthcare, or the FTC Safeguards Rule for accounting and tax firms. It covers both the technical controls and the documentation that proves they are in place.
Cybersecurity is the broader practice of protecting systems, networks, data, and users from threats. Compliance means meeting specific security requirements set by regulations, contracts, industry standards, or customers. Meeting a compliance requirement does not guarantee you are secure, so a strong compliance program should support your cybersecurity program rather than replace it.
Yes. Contractors handling CUI must still protect it to NIST SP 800-171 under DFARS 252.204-7012 and post self-assessment scores to SPRS. The Department of War suspended the CMMC Phase II third-party certification requirement on July 13, 2026, but Phase I self-assessments, annual affirmations, and the underlying NIST 800-171 requirement remain in effect.
It depends on how many of the 110 NIST SP 800-171 requirements you already meet and how large your CUI environment is. Tight scoping is the biggest factor in both time and cost. A gap assessment gives you a realistic timeline.
A virtual Chief Information Security Officer provides security leadership without the cost of a full-time executive. Your vCISO owns your security and compliance program, maintains policies, tracks risks, reports to leadership, and prepares you for assessments and audits.
If your practice creates, receives, stores, or transmits protected health information, HIPAA almost certainly applies. That includes most medical, dental, and behavioral health practices and many of their vendors.
Yes. Tax preparers and many accounting firms are considered financial institutions under the rule and must maintain a written information security program with specific safeguards.
Core security tools are part of our monthly agreements. Framework-specific work such as CMMC readiness or SSP development is typically scoped separately.
Yes. Through co-managed IT, your team keeps day-to-day control while we provide compliance expertise, security tools, documentation, and vCISO leadership.
Schedule a discovery call. We will review your environment, identify the framework that applies to you, and give you a prioritized plan.
Find out where you stand before an assessor, auditor, or insurer does. Get the free BlueKey IT readiness checklist to check ten common requirements and choose your top three gaps.
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