Advisory & Data Protection
Your compliance frameworks maintained year-round in Clarity — controls, evidence and recurring requirements managed continuously, with QSA-led oversight for PCI DSS.
Compliance doesn't fail at the audit — it fails in the eleven months before it, when evidence goes uncollected, controls drift and recurring requirements slip. Blackfoot's compliance as a service subscription replaces that deadline-driven cycle with a year-round operating model: your frameworks live in our Clarity portal and our consultants keep the programme moving continuously.
Coverage spans the frameworks UK organisations actually answer to: PCI DSS for merchants and service providers across all SAQ variants, ISO 27001 including Annex A, ISO 9001 and ISO 42001, Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus, NIST CSF and GDPR — plus custom control sets and internal audit programmes where you need them. Additional frameworks can be supported on the platform as your obligations grow.
Three elements make up the service. The compliance module is the core: your frameworks, control sets and assessments in Clarity, with evidence and task tracking year-round, dashboards, and unlimited users so ownership sits where it belongs. Platform enablement adds expert-led setup — framework configuration, control mapping, responsibilities and testing structure — plus ongoing how-to support.
Programme oversight is what keeps it honest. For PCI DSS, that means ongoing QSA oversight with bi-monthly QSA-led sessions reviewing your recurring requirements — patching, vulnerability management, access reviews, change management, supplier diligence, logging and policy review — with documentation collected as you go. The result: momentum and confidence between formal assessments, not a cold start each year.
The outcomes are measurable: live visibility of your compliance status, dramatically reduced audit preparation effort, clear ownership of recurring activity and far less drift between assessments. If you're not yet compliant, our advisory team handles first-time readiness — gap analysis for PCI DSS or ISO 27001 certification support — and hands cleanly into the subscription so you stay compliant year-round.
PCI DSS, ISO 27001, ISO 9001/42001, Cyber Essentials, NIST CSF and GDPR maintained continuously — plus custom frameworks where needed.
Bi-monthly QSA-led sessions review your recurring PCI DSS requirements, so evidence and controls stay assessment-ready all year.
Documentation gathered year-round in Clarity instead of excavated at audit time — cutting assessment prep from months to days.
Control owners work directly in the portal with tasks, reminders and dashboards — no per-seat licensing games.
Platform enablement configures your frameworks, control mapping and testing structure, with how-to support whenever you need it.
Recurring requirements reviewed on schedule means control failures surface in weeks, not at the annual assessment.
We confirm the standards you answer to — PCI DSS, ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials, NIST CSF, GDPR or custom sets — and your oversight level.
Expert-led enablement sets up your frameworks, maps controls, assigns responsibilities and structures control testing in the portal.
Evidence collection, control assessments and recurring tasks run to schedule in Clarity, with owners, reminders and dashboards keeping status visible.
Regular oversight sessions — QSA-led bi-monthly for PCI DSS — review recurring requirements, examine slippage and keep the programme on track.
When the formal assessment arrives, your evidence is organised and your controls tested — preparation becomes confirmation, not crisis.
Straight answers to what prospective clients ask us most.
It's a managed subscription that keeps your compliance frameworks continuously maintained rather than revisited once a year. Blackfoot provides the Clarity platform, configures your frameworks, and delivers expert oversight so controls, evidence and recurring requirements are managed year-round.
PCI DSS for merchants and service providers (all SAQ variants), ISO 27001 including Annex A, ISO 9001, ISO 42001, Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus, NIST CSF and GDPR, plus custom assessments and internal audit programmes. Additional frameworks can be supported on the platform.
Bi-monthly QSA-led sessions review your recurring PCI DSS requirements — patching, vulnerability management, access reviews, change management, supplier diligence, logging and policy reviews — with documentation collected throughout the year. You get expert challenge and support continuously, not just at assessment time.
No — formal assessments, audits and certifications remain separate engagements, which keeps them independent. The subscription makes those events dramatically easier by ensuring the evidence and controls they examine are already in order.
The subscription maintains compliance; it doesn't build it from zero. First-time readiness — gap analysis, remediation, certification support — is delivered by our advisory team, who then hand into Compliance as a Service so the effort you invested doesn't decay.
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