For Big Four · Mid-cap · Boutique Consulting Firms
RiskWatch for Consulting Firms is a risk and compliance platform that unifies every regulator + framework the sector faces on one survey-based evidence vault. Consulting firms run the densest stack of client-imposed assurance of any sector. ISO 27001:2022 surveillance + SOC 2 Type II fieldwork in parallel. Client SIG Lite + Core, CSA STAR, and Schellman questionnaires landing weekly. CMMC 2.0 flowing down on DoD-consulting work. ITAR + EAR on export-controlled engagements. GDPR on cross-border practices. RiskWatch handles all of it as one survey-based assessment platform sized for partner-led firms.
Trusted by partner-led consulting firms managing ISO 27001 + SOC 2 Type II programs, client questionnaire response, CMMC + ITAR + GDPR engagements, and trust-center artifacts across strategy, management, IT, financial-risk, HR, and boutique practices.
Why CISOs + Trust Programs Pick RiskWatch
RiskWatch runs ISO/IEC 27001:2022, SOC 2 Type II, client SIG / CSA STAR / Schellman questionnaires, CMMC 2.0, ITAR + EAR, GDPR, and the AICPA SSCS engagement standards as one program on one platform, scored against the same controls library, and tracked through a single client-audit-ready evidence trail. Built for firms where one trust + security team covers the whole partnership, without enterprise-bank GRC overhead.
ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A 93-control set + AICPA TSC criteria are cross-mapped. Risk treatment plan, statement of applicability, control evidence, and surveillance audit prep run from one library, not two parallel SharePoint sites.
SIG Lite + Core, CSA STAR (CAIQ), Schellman, and bespoke client RFI questionnaires all draw from the same evidence vault. BD + sales + security stop reinventing the same answers every Q. Trust-center artifacts ship in days, not weeks.
CISO + ISO 27001 program lead + SOC 2 owner + BD security lead share one platform. Pre-built libraries cut prep time. White-glove implementation in 30 days, not 6 months.
The Consulting Firm Assurance Landscape
ISO/IEC 27001:2022 closed its three-year transition window in October 2025, every firm certified against the 2013 edition has now re-certified to the 2022 Annex A control set. SOC 2 Type II is the US-default consulting trust artifact, refreshed annually with 6- or 12-month observation windows. CMMC 2.0 final-rule rollout is in active phasing through 2025-2027 for DoD-consulting prime + subcontract flow-down. SIG Lite + Core is the most-used client-side questionnaire in the US assurance market. Each framework wants its own evidence package.
Three Domains, One Platform
RiskWatch covers all three. Each domain has a dedicated workflow, scoring model, and remediation queue. They share data so a single access-review cycle satisfies ISO 27001 Annex A 8.2, SOC 2 CC6.1, CSA STAR IAM-09, SIG access-management section, and CMMC AC.L2-3.1.5 simultaneously.
Survey-based risk assessment across engagement-level acceptance, IP / knowledge protection, and firm-level reputational exposure, aligned to ISO 27001 + AICPA SSCS.
ISO/IEC 27001:2022, SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, AICPA SSAE 18, GAGAS Yellow Book, AICPA SSCS, and FedRAMP in one cross-mapped library.
CMMC 2.0, ITAR + EAR, client SIG Lite + Core, CSA STAR (CAIQ), NIST CSF 2.0, and Schellman client questionnaires across every engagement.
The Coverage Gap
Engagement-management platforms cover utilization + delivery. Trust-center vendors cover SOC 2 monitoring. Questionnaire-specialty tools answer SIG and nothing else. Internal-audit / ERM platforms cover firm-level controls only. Knowledge-management tools protect work product. Each does one job. Trust + security teams still operate four parallel programs.
| Platform Category | ISO 27001 | SOC 2 | Client SIG | CSA STAR | CMMC/ITAR | Multi-engagement |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Engagement Mgmt PlatformsMavenlink, Kantata | · | · | · | · | · | Yes |
| Trust Center / SOC 2 ToolsDrata, Vanta, Secureframe | Partial | Yes | Partial | Partial | · | · |
| Questionnaire SpecialtyProcessUnity | · | · | Yes | Partial | · | · |
| Internal Audit / ERMWorkiva | Partial | Partial | · | · | · | Partial |
| Knowledge MgmtKX, Foundation | · | · | · | · | · | Partial |
| Spreadsheets & Email | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| RiskWatchThe unified client-audit-ready platform | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
RiskWatch is the only platform covering all six consulting-firm assurance domains: ISO/IEC 27001:2022, SOC 2 Type II, client SIG Lite + Core, CSA STAR (CAIQ), CMMC 2.0 + ITAR, and multi-engagement coordination. Engagement platforms cover utilization. Trust-center vendors cover SOC 2. Questionnaire specialty answers SIG. Each does one job. RiskWatch unifies all six in one survey-based assessment workflow.
How It Works
RiskWatch is a survey-based assessment platform. The work is structured around questionnaires that capture trust, security, privacy, and engagement-acceptance posture in a consistent format, then scored against every framework you align to.
For consulting firms, that workflow runs continuously across ISO/IEC 27001:2022 surveillance cycles, SOC 2 Type II observation windows, client SIG Lite + Core / CSA STAR / Schellman questionnaire responses, CMMC 2.0 + DFARS DoD-consulting requirements, ITAR + EAR export-controlled engagements, and GDPR cross-border practices. A single access-review cycle scores against ISO 27001 Annex A 8.2, SOC 2 CC6.1, CSA STAR IAM-09, SIG access-management section, and CMMC AC.L2-3.1.5 simultaneously.
The same platform runs all of it, surfaces gaps before client-auditor or surveillance arrival, assigns remediation owners, and tracks completion. Replace the four parallel tools and the SharePoint binder between them.
Built For Your Role
Owns the firm's brand, partnership economics, client-trust posture, and partner-board view of engagement + reputational risk.
Firm-wide trust scoring continuous. ISO 27001 + SOC 2 audit-ready. Engagement + reputational risk surfaces from the same vault.Owns the firm-wide information-security program, ISO 27001 + SOC 2 Type II posture, CMMC + ITAR engagement security, and breach response.
ISO 27001:2022 + SOC 2 evidence captured. CMMC + ITAR overlays tracked. Client SIG response time cut. Audit-ready year-round.Owns ISO/IEC 27001:2022 surveillance audits, SOC 2 Type II observation windows, statement of applicability, and risk treatment plan.
ISO 27001 + SOC 2 share one evidence trail. Surveillance + Type II prep run continuously. Auditor walkthrough takes hours, not weeks.Owns engagement-acceptance reviews, COI screening, sub-processor + vendor risk, and engagement-level controls (NDAs, data handling, IP).
Engagement-acceptance scored at intake. Sub-processor risk continuous. Engagement-level evidence ties to firm-level controls.Owns work-product / knowledge-management protection, IP retention, GDPR / cross-border data handling, and AICPA SSCS engagement records.
GDPR Article 28 + 32 evidence captured. Work-product retention scored. Cross-border engagement records tracked.Owns RFP / pursuit security responses, SIG Lite + Core completion, CSA STAR / Schellman / Whistic profiles, and trust-center artifacts.
Client questionnaire turnaround cut from weeks to days. Reusable answers across SIG / CAIQ / Schellman. Trust center built from live data.Built For Your Segment
Global Tier 1 firms (Big Four advisory + audit + tax, MBB-class strategy houses) with multi-jurisdiction practices, ISO 27001 + SOC 2 portfolios, and federal-engagement security flow-down.
Mid-cap management consulting firms running ISO 27001 + SOC 2 Type II in parallel, weekly client SIG + CAIQ response, and engagement-level controls across multi-practice work.
IT + technology consulting firms (implementation, cloud, cybersecurity, data) with FedRAMP-engagement work, CSA STAR profiles, and client-imposed security controls per engagement.
Big 4 advisory + Kroll-class financial-risk consulting firms with SSAE 18 service-organization controls, GAGAS Yellow Book government-engagement work, and AICPA SSCS standards.
HR + people consulting firms handling employee data at scale: GDPR + state-privacy compliance, sub-processor agreements, and PII-heavy engagement workflows.
Boutique + sector-specialty consulting firms (industry-vertical, regulatory, technical) where one engagement-security incident is a partnership-existential event.
Frameworks We Cover
RiskWatch ships with pre-built libraries for every major consulting-firm assurance framework + client questionnaire + recommended practice. Map controls once. Score against the framework that matters this audit cycle.
Trusted by 500+ risk and compliance teams
We had three program owners running ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II, and the client questionnaire engine on three different tools. Now it's one platform. ISO 27001:2022 surveillance and SOC 2 Type II fieldwork pull from the same evidence vault. Our SIG / CAIQ / Schellman responses ship in days, not weeks. CMMC for our DoD-consulting subcontract work and GDPR for cross-border engagements run as overlays on the same controls library.
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