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ISO 27001, SOC 2 & PCI DSS Compliance Consulting in Pakistan

ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, and GDPR readiness and remediation.

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What it is

Practical help reaching and holding a compliance standard, run by people who implement controls rather than only describe them. We work out what the standard genuinely requires of an organisation your size, build the evidence, and prepare you for the assessor without drowning the business in paperwork.

Types of Compliance Consulting we deliver

ISO 27001 readiness

Gap assessment against the standard, the documentation set, risk treatment and the technical testing a certification audit expects.

SOC 2 readiness

Control design and evidence collection for Type I and Type II, built around the trust services criteria your customers actually asked about.

PCI DSS compliance support

Scope reduction first, because the cheapest route through PCI is having less in scope, then the testing and evidence the standard requires.

State Bank of Pakistan alignment

Technology governance and risk management expectations for banks, microfinance banks and payment service providers, including the periodic assessment they drive.

Policy and documentation

A policy set written for how your organisation actually works, rather than a template pack that no auditor believes and no employee reads.

How we do it

  1. 1

    Applicability and scoping

    Which standard applies, and precisely which systems, data and processes fall inside its boundary — over-scoping is the most expensive early mistake.

  2. 2

    Readiness gap assessment

    Current state measured against every applicable control.

  3. 3

    Documentation build

    Policies and procedures written to fit how you actually operate, not copied from a template pack.

  4. 4

    Control implementation support

    Hands-on help standing up the technical controls the standard requires.

  5. 5

    Evidence collection

    Establishing what evidence each control produces and where it will live when the assessor asks.

  6. 6

    Assessment preparation

    Mock audit and interview rehearsal so nobody meets these questions for the first time in the real thing.

What's included

  • Scoping that keeps the boundary defensible and small
  • Gap assessment against the full control set
  • Documentation written to your operation
  • Technical control implementation support
  • Evidence workflow that survives the next cycle
  • Mock audit before the real one

Who needs it

  • Companies losing deals to a security questionnaire
  • Organisations entering a regulated market or sector
  • Teams that certified once and let the evidence lapse

Deliverables

  • Scope definition and statement of applicability
  • Policy and procedure set ready to adopt
  • Evidence register mapped control by control
  • Mock audit findings and corrective actions

What Compliance Consulting costs

Priced per framework, by engagement phase.

The figure depends on scope, so we quote one fixed price in writing before any work begins. These are the things that move it:

  • Which framework and how far you already are — Starting from nothing against starting from a partially built management system is the main variable, and it is assessable in a single call.
  • How many frameworks at once — ISO 27001 and SOC 2 overlap heavily. Running them together costs far less than running them a year apart.
  • Organisation size and complexity — Scope boundaries, number of systems and number of suppliers all drive the documentation and the evidence burden.
  • Whether we write the documentation or review yours — Authoring a full policy set is a different engagement from reviewing and correcting one you already have.
  • Audit support — Being present through the certification audit, and handling the auditor's questions, is quoted separately from the preparation.

Pakistani exporters and software houses are most often asked for ISO 27001 or SOC 2 by an overseas client. Ask which one the client actually requires before paying for both.

Where we deliver Compliance Consulting

Compliance work is delivered remotely across Pakistan, with workshops and interviews run on site from Multan where that is easier for your team. Most of our compliance clients are Pakistani software houses and fintechs answering requirements set by overseas customers, which means the deadline is usually theirs rather than yours.

Further reading

Compliance relevance

ISO 27001SOC 2PCI DSSGDPRHIPAA

Frequently asked questions

No. Certification comes from an accredited certification body or a licensed CPA firm, and it has to be independent of whoever helped you prepare. We get you ready for them.
Six to twelve months from a standing start for most small and mid-sized organisations. SOC 2 Type II additionally requires an observation window, typically three to twelve months, which cannot be shortened.
Substantially, yes. ISO 27001, SOC 2 and most frameworks overlap heavily on access control, change management and incident response. Build the evidence once and map it to each.
No, and nobody who also does your readiness work can. Certification is issued by an accredited certification body, and independence is the point. We prepare you for that audit: gap assessment, documentation, risk treatment, technical testing and evidence. The certificate comes from the auditor.
Typically three to nine months depending on where you are starting and how much management time you can commit. The documentation is rarely the bottleneck. Getting controls genuinely operating, and evidenced as operating, is what takes the months.
Usually whichever your customers are asking for. SOC 2 is the common request from US customers; ISO 27001 is more often expected in Europe, the Gulf and by enterprise procurement generally. If nobody has asked yet, neither is urgent — and if both are being asked for, the control sets overlap enough that doing them together is far cheaper than sequentially.
It depends on your merchant or service provider level, but the common core is network segmentation, access control, logging, quarterly vulnerability scanning and annual penetration testing. The first question we ask is not how to comply but how to reduce scope, because every system removed from the cardholder data environment is permanently cheaper to comply with.
Banks, microfinance banks and payment service providers operate under SBP technology governance and risk management expectations that drive periodic vulnerability assessment, penetration testing and incident-response readiness. The specific obligations depend on your licence category, and we scope against what applies to you rather than a generic checklist.
Yes — readiness consulting and technical testing are different services and there is no independence problem in providing both, because neither is the certification audit. The line we do not cross is auditing our own work for certification purposes.
Priced per framework, by engagement phase. Beyond that the figure depends on scope — mainly which framework and how far you already are, how many frameworks at once and organisation size and complexity. We quote one fixed price in writing before any work begins, so the number does not move once the engagement starts. Pakistani exporters and software houses are most often asked for ISO 27001 or SOC 2 by an overseas client. Ask which one the client actually requires before paying for both.

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