Security and Compliance Services

Start with whatever is blocking a deal, an audit or a release, because that usually settles the order of everything else. If a customer or a regulator has named a framework, the compliance programme comes first and the testing follows the scope it defines. If you are shipping software and nobody has asked you for a certificate yet, a manual penetration test of your main application tells you more about your real exposure than any policy set would. If an auditor has already found gaps, a hardening and configuration review is often the cheapest way to close them. You do not have to decide this alone, and you should not guess: the scoping call exists precisely to work out which of the six practice areas answers the question in front of you. We will say plainly when the honest answer is that you need less work than you asked for.

They answer different questions and they are strongest together. A compliance programme such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS or DPDP Act readiness proves that you manage security deliberately: policies, ownership, risk decisions and evidence an auditor can follow. A penetration test proves whether the systems you actually run hold up when somebody tries them by hand. One without the other leaves a gap you can feel. Certified organisations still ship exploitable applications, and a clean test report does nothing for a procurement questionnaire. Most frameworks require testing outright, so the two meet on the evidence anyway: the test report becomes a control artefact, and the fixes it drives become your change record. We usually run them on one control set and one evidence trail rather than as two projects, so a single access review or retest answers several requirements at once instead of being repeated for each.

It begins with a scoping call, usually 30 to 45 minutes, with the people who would do the work rather than an account manager. We ask what you run, who is asking you for what, and what has already been tried. You then get a written scope with a timeline and a fixed price, so the commercial question is settled before anything starts. From there the work is done by hand: testing is manual, findings reach you as they are confirmed rather than being held back for the report, and each one carries specific remediation guidance. Your engineers can talk to ours while the fixes land. When you tell us the fixes are in, we retest to confirm each closure, and that retest is part of the engagement rather than a separate invoice. Compliance programmes run the same way, with evidence assembled as we go so the audit is not a scramble at the end.

Faster than most people expect, and the limit is usually scope rather than our calendar. The scoping call can normally be held within a few days of you asking for one, and the written scope, timeline and price follow it quickly. Once you accept that scope, the start date depends mainly on what has to be in place first: test accounts, environment access, a change window if the systems are in production, or a document set if the engagement is a compliance programme. We will tell you on the call what those prerequisites are, so nothing surprises you afterwards. If something is genuinely urgent, say so on the call and we will tell you honestly whether we can meet it rather than accepting the date and missing it later. We would rather turn down a deadline than take one we cannot hold.

Yes. Our registered office is in Kanpur and we work from Greater Noida West, but the work itself is not tied to either. Testing, compliance programmes and managed services are delivered remotely for clients across India and beyond it, and that is how most engagements run: the scoping call, the working sessions with your engineers and the walkthrough of findings all happen the same way regardless of where your team sits. Where an engagement genuinely needs somebody on site, an internal network assessment or a physical review of a facility, we plan those visits into the scope and the timeline before you sign, rather than adding travel afterwards. SecureRoot Risk Advisory is certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and ISO 9001:2015, so the way we handle your data and run an engagement is the same wherever you are. Distance changes the logistics, not the method.