Technology and software companies face the broadest compliance surface of any industry. Agency's U.S.-based forward-deployed engineers and proprietary AI run your entire program on top of the tools you already trust — Vanta, Drata, CrowdStrike — so compliance unlocks markets instead of blocking growth, with no new headcount.

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Regulatory Landscape

Nine frameworks that apply

SOC 2The baseline certification that enterprise buyers, procurement teams, and security reviewers demand before signing contracts. SOC 2 Type II is table stakes for any SaaS company selling into enterprise.

ISO 27001SaaS companies expanding into international markets need ISO 27001 to meet buyer expectations outside North America, where SOC 2 alone may not be sufficient.

GDPRSaaS companies with EU customers or users must demonstrate GDPR compliance in data processing agreements, privacy policies, and technical controls.

HIPAA

PCI DSSSaaS companies providing infrastructure, analytics, communication, or data management services to healthcare organizations must comply as business associates.

HITRUSTSaaS companies selling into healthcare and financial services pursue HITRUST to differentiate in competitive evaluations where HITRUST certification is preferred or required.

FedRAMPSaaS, PaaS, and IaaS providers pursuing federal contracts must achieve FedRAMP authorization at the appropriate impact level.

CMMC 2.0Technology companies in the CUI data flow serving defense contractors or DoD agencies must meet CMMC requirements.

ISO 42001AI-native SaaS companies, ML platforms, and software companies embedding AI into products need ISO 42001 to satisfy enterprise buyer due diligence and emerging AI regulatory requirements.

USDPSaaS companies serving customers across regulated industries benefit from USDP's unified approach to satisfying multiple compliance requirements through a single control framework.

How Agency Operates Technology & Software Compliance

Agency embeds U.S.-based forward-deployed engineers, supercharged by proprietary AI, into your security and compliance infrastructure, operating your entire program across SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, HITRUST, FedRAMP, CMMC 2.0, ISO 42001, and USDP — so your engineers ship product while Agency runs compliance end-to-end. Automation handles the repetition; our engineers handle the judgment calls auditors and buyers actually care about.

Multi-Framework Orchestration — Agency AI maps controls across SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, FedRAMP, and ISO 42001 in a unified ontology. Implement controls once and satisfy every overlapping requirement. Agency AI orchestrates enforcement across your cloud, code, and SaaS stack simultaneously.

Secure SDLC & Cloud Configuration — Agency embeds compliance into your development lifecycle and cloud infrastructure, ensuring controls are implemented, monitored, and documented across AWS, GCP, Azure, and your CI/CD pipeline through Rumi, the AI DevSecOps engineer inside Agency AI — working on top of the tools you already run, with no rip-and-replace.

Security Questionnaires & Trust Center — Agency answers inbound security questionnaires and operates your trust center continuously. AI drafts responses from validated evidence in your live program; our engineers review and approve every answer before it reaches a buyer.

Continuous Monitoring & Vendor Risk — Agency operates continuous monitoring across cloud infrastructure, endpoints, and SaaS applications, and assesses every subprocessor and vendor in your stack. Risk scores update dynamically and control drift is detected and remediated in real time.

Assessment Readiness — Agency prepares your organization for SOC 2, ISO, and customer audits with validated controls, complete evidence packages, and real-time tracking through Agency AI. Auditsuisse AI validates every artifact before auditor review.

Managed Detection and Response — Agency MDR provides fully managed detection, response, and incident documentation across every endpoint, server, container, and cloud workload — with compliance-grade evidence sent directly to GRC platforms and auditors.

Critical Challenges

Six places Technology & Software compliance stalls

Audited Compliance Enterprise buyers and procurement teams demand SOC 2 Type II and more before signing. Maintaining audit-ready evidence year-round across a fast-moving codebase is unsustainable manually.

Cross-Framework Complexity Pursuing SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and FedRAMP simultaneously creates overlapping control requirements that multiply without cross-mapping.

Questionnaire Fatigue Every enterprise deal arrives with a security questionnaire. Answering them pulls engineers off product and slows the sales cycle.

Vendor Risk Modern software stacks depend on dozens of subprocessors and SaaS vendors, each introducing compliance obligations that must be assessed and monitored continuously.

Trust & Transparency Buyers expect a credible, always-current trust center backed by a real security program, not a static page.

Remote Workers Distributed engineering teams accessing production systems and source code introduce access control and monitoring challenges.

Agency for Technology & Software

Your engineers ship product. Agency runs compliance end-to-end.

Automation handles the repetition; our engineers handle the judgment calls auditors and buyers actually care about. Agency's U.S.-based forward-deployed engineers and proprietary AI run your entire program on top of the tools you already trust, so compliance unlocks markets instead of blocking growth, with no new headcount.

Work done for SOC 2 carries forward to ISO 27001, GDPR, FedRAMP, and ISO 42001 — implement controls once and satisfy every overlapping requirement across your cloud, code, and SaaS stack simultaneously.

Platform Products

Agency AIEnd-to-end cybersecurity and compliance, across the stack you already use.

GRC IntegrationsEngineer-operated GRC platform integration

Agency MDRManaged detection and response

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Common GRC Questions

GRC Platform & Virtual CISO FAQ

Answers to common Technology & Software compliance questions — which frameworks apply, how controls cross-map, and what a virtual CISO actually does for your program.

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Forward-Deployed Engineers + AI that lower costs, increase velocity, and raise the bar — from policy to audit to remediation. U.S.-based forward-deployed engineers, supercharged by proprietary AI, operate your program end-to-end — on top of the tools you already trust.

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