HIPAA, SOX, PCI-DSS, CMMC 2.0
Data Compliance Infrastructure Services
For construction, engineering, and manufacturing leaders who want operations that pass muster with customers, primes, and auditors.
How Compliance Differs from Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity is the umbrella term we use to talk about tools that protect your business from cybercrime, negligence, and disasters. It is a set of controls put in place by your IT team to minimize your cyber risk. Controls are chosen based on the cybersecurity framework your company chooses to adhere to, along with controls mandated by regulations in your industry.
Compliance refers to the governance of the overall data security program. It includes your written policies and procedures - like your Disaster Recovery Plan and Business Continuity Plan - and focuses on the mitigation and transfer of business risk.
Your plants, jobsites, and design teams depend on advanced technology—from CAD/BIM workstations and ERP/MES platforms to shop-floor controllers, field tablets, vendor portals, and a constantly expanding ecosystem of cloud applications. This digital foundation brings new productivity but also exposes your operations to threats like cyberattacks and data loss. To stay resilient, you need security controls calibrated to the realities of how you build, fabricate, and deliver—controls that not only defend against evolving risks but also satisfy the demands of auditors and regulators. With robust measures implemented, monitored, and carefully documented, you can demonstrate compliance whenever a certifying body or customer asks.
What we do
At TotalCare IT, we design, implement, and run the security infrastructure industrial firms need so operations align with common security expectations (NIST CSF & 800‑171/CMMC, FTC “reasonable security,” SEC incident readiness expectations, PHMSA security planning, and Idaho breach notification rules).
We help your business make security decisions, understand security threats, and optimize security processes. With our services, you will retain a board-level resource who can virtually sit inside your company and manage your security strategy, budget, review of risks, and regulatory programs.
- We help CEOs understand their risk tolerance, compliance needs, and
liability in incident prevention/response/recovery. - We guide your leadership team through alignment to data security
standards. - We provide context for decisions being made within the cybersecurity program.
- We prioritize items for completion within the organization — a 3rd party risk assessment provides a trustworthy place to start.
- Our program creates oversight for the organization’s security — so the Executive team knows it is being proactively managed.
- We communicate business security risk and outcomes to the executive team.
- We maintain the collection of evidence you may need for compliance, like logs, network diagrams, backups, reports, and other data.
What we don’t do
We are not a certifying body (not a C3PAO for CMMC either) and we do not provide legal advice. We do not issue any certificates. We build and operate the controls and evidence that make compliance alignment achievable.
We do not fill out your cyber insurance forms for you. We can advise you on what you have in place so that you can fill out your forms correctly, but we do not fill out forms on your behalf. Cyber insurance applications can be lengthy and require very specific representations about your security controls. It’s important that those answers come directly from your organization. What we do is make sure you actually have the security controls and evidence those forms ask about. We can walk you through what’s in place, show you where it lives, and advise on how to describe it accurately—so you can fill out the forms with confidence. But the responsibility for completing and signing those forms always remains with you.
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A Holistic Security & Compliance Program for Organizations in Idaho
Legislation is frequently drafted or updated that regulates the cybersecurity and technology of specific industries. When those regulations affect your business, TotalCare IT works with your team to prepare your infrastructure and Executive team for certifying bodies.
Regulatory standards (like HIPAA, NIST, CMMC, PCI, SOC 2, ISO 27001) all have security controls that must be met to satisfy the standard. Being "compliant" to a standard means you are actively implementing all of the prescribed controls. At TotalCare IT, we make sure your company is adopting the security controls required for compliance mandates in your industry.
We offer employee cybersecurity vulnerability training, which is often required for both regulatory standards and cyber insurance. For your technical staff, we offer education on why specific security controls or solutions should be implemented.
CMMC 2.0 is a certification model to prove adoption of and adherence to NIST SP 800-171 by Defense Industrial Base (DIB) companies. This is to ensure critical unclassified national security information is protected, along with contract information.
To learn more about CMMC 2.0, visit our CMMC FAQs page.
If you are a medical device manufacturer or your business handles private health information, you may fall under HIPAA compliance regulations.
We offer specialized expertise in managing and securing electronic protected health information (ePHI) through comprehensive risk assessments, robust technical safeguards, and continuous security monitoring.
By implementing stringent access controls, encryption, and audit trails, we ensure that only authorized personnel can access sensitive data, thereby reducing the risk of breaches.
If you work with money and keep personal information about customers on file, there's a good chance you’ll fall within the new FTC Safeguards guidelines.
In 2021, the FTC passed and released their new FTC Safeguards rule as an update to the preceding Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. With the update, there was an expansion on who is considered a financial institution. This gives the FTC stronger grounds on which to impose penalties and enforce these new data security requirements.
Just by being found negligent, the FTC can impose fines from $10,000 to $100,000 per violation. In addition, if you’re found to be in gross violation of the rule, you can get up to 5 years in prison.