Managing 12+ Compliance Frameworks Across 3 Entities and 5 Regions

Challenge

Three operating entities under common ownership each had distinct compliance requirements: PCI DSS Level 1 and SOC 2 Type II for the payments entities, ISO 27001 and HIPAA for the healthcare technology entity, and GDPR plus five additional international privacy frameworks across all entities. Total: 12+ active frameworks, 5 global regions, lean team of 8 — no MSSP.

Approach

• Built a unified compliance management approach leveraging overlapping controls across frameworks — a single well-implemented control often satisfies requirements in PCI, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and GDPR simultaneously
• Established a formal internal audit schedule covering all frameworks on a defined cadence
• Maintained a centralized risk register using ISO 27005 methodology, presented to leadership regularly
• Managed global privacy compliance across EU GDPR, UK GDPR, PIPEDA (Canada), LGPD (Brazil), PIPL (China), PDPA (Singapore), and Australia Privacy Act through close partnership with legal
• Vendor risk managed through certification-based assessment for fewer than a dozen in-scope vendors

Outcome

• All frameworks maintained simultaneously without dedicated compliance headcount per framework
• Enterprise-grade compliance posture achieved on a mid-market budget — a compelling efficiency story
• Annual audit results consistently strong across all frameworks
• Global privacy compliance maintained across 7 named privacy frameworks and 5 regions — unusual at any company size, rare at mid-market