Security & Compliance
Compliance Consulting
We help clients get audit-ready for GDPR, HIPAA, ISO 27001 and SOC 2 — gap assessments, control implementation, and readiness reviews before an external auditor is engaged.
RioCloud Solutions is not ISO 27001 certified and does not hold a SOC 2 attestation. We are a sole proprietorship based in Chandigarh, India. What we offer on this page is consulting — we help your organisation prepare for these audits. We think that distinction matters, and we would rather state it here than let a badge imply something we have not earned. If you need a certified vendor for a regulated workload, we will tell you that directly and help you scope the requirement.
The four frameworks we consult on and build infrastructure for. Here is what each one actually requires.
EU General Data Protection Regulation — lawful processing, consent, data subject rights, and breach notification.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act — PHI protection, administrative and technical safeguards.
Global information security management standard — policies, risk assessment, controls, and continual improvement.
AICPA trust services — security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy over time.
Effective since May 2018, GDPR applies to anyone processing personal data of EU residents. RioCloud Solutions acts as a data processor and ensures full alignment.
As an EU resident you can request any of the following at any time by emailing [email protected]:
For healthcare, telehealth, and life sciences clients, we operate under HIPAA-aligned controls to protect electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI).
ISO/IEC 27001:2022 asks an organisation to run an Information Security Management System (ISMS) across 93 Annex A controls covering people, process, and technology. When we take on an ISO 27001 engagement, these are the control domains we help you build and evidence.
ISO 27001 is not a one-off project. The standard expects an annual Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle — internal audits, management reviews, and corrective action tracking. We set that cycle up with you and hand over the runbook, so it keeps working after our engagement ends.
We support your ISO 27001 certification journey with gap assessments, control implementation, infrastructure setup, internal audit services, and readiness reviews before you engage an external certification body such as BSI, DNV, or TÜV. We are not a certification body and cannot certify you ourselves — the audit is always independent.
SOC 2 Type 2 evaluates the operational effectiveness of controls over a period of time (typically 6-12 months). Scoping starts with deciding which of the five Trust Services Criteria apply to you — Security is mandatory, the other four are optional and each one adds cost.
The observation window is won or lost on evidence. We set up continuous collection of the artefacts auditors ask for — access logs, change management records, incident response documentation, vendor management attestations, and security training records — so you are not reconstructing twelve months of history the week before fieldwork.
We help SaaS companies and enterprise clients get ready for their own SOC 2 Type 1 and Type 2 attestations — gap analysis, infrastructure setup, and ongoing evidence collection via tools like Vanta, Drata, or Secureframe. The attestation itself is issued by an independent CPA firm, not by us.
Certification is mostly a documentation exercise on top of infrastructure that actually works. These are the technical controls we implement and hand over as part of a compliance engagement — described here as what we build for you, not as claims about our own audit status.
AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit, managed keys via cloud KMS, no plaintext credentials in code.
Zero-trust model, MFA required, least privilege, quarterly access reviews, SSO for client environments.
Immutable audit trails for all access, changes, and data operations. Logs retained per framework requirements.
24/7 monitoring, defined escalation paths, customer notification within regulatory timeframes (GDPR 72h, HIPAA 60 days).
Client-specified data residency (EU, US, India, UK) with regional cloud providers. No cross-border transfers without SCCs.
All subprocessors signed to DPAs/BAAs, vetted annually, compliance attestations on file.
Tell us which framework you are targeting and your deadline. We will come back with a scoped gap assessment and an honest view of what it will take — including whether you need a certified vendor instead of us.