FTC Safeguards Rule & IRS WISP Compliance Package
The FTC Safeguards Rule and IRS Publication 4557 require tax preparers, auto dealers, mortgage brokers and other small financial institutions to keep a Written Information Security Program, name a qualified individual, assess risk and train staff. This annual package delivers a WISP that reflects your firm, the risk assessment behind it, staff training and the yearly review that keeps it valid — with a practitioner who can act as your qualified individual.
In scope
- Written Information Security Program (WISP) tailored to the firm
- Risk assessment required by the Safeguards Rule
- Qualified Individual designation support
- Annual staff training
- Yearly review, update and board or owner report
You receive
- WISP document
- Risk assessment report
- Training completion records
- Annual compliance report
Tiers
Choose the depth.
Essential WISP Package
$1.5K / yr
Per year, firms up to 10 staff: WISP, risk assessment and annual training
- employees
- 10
- Sites
- 1
Advanced Safeguards Package
$3.5K / yr
Per year, up to 50 staff: adds vendor oversight, incident response plan and semi-annual review
- employees
- 50
- Sites
- 3
Enterprise Safeguards Program
$7.5K / yr
Per year, multi-office firms: adds outsourced Qualified Individual, penetration test coordination and annual report to the board
- employees
- 250
- Sites
- 10
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What's inside this engagement
Phase by phase.
How a readiness & governance assessment engagement runs, what happens in each phase and what you see. Exact scope, tier and timeline are fixed in your proposal and SOW.
01Scoping & framework selection
The standard or regulation, the systems and the business units in scope are fixed.
You see · Your audit or regulatory driver.
02Evidence collection & interviews
Policies, configurations and records reviewed; control owners interviewed.
You see · Documents and time with control owners.
03Gap analysis
Each requirement mapped to current state: met, partial or missing, with the evidence behind it.
You see · A clear gap register.
04Roadmap & evidence plan
Prioritized remediation with owners, and the evidence an auditor will ask for.
You see · A plan you can execute or hand to us.
Commercials
From first call to final report.
- 01
Scoping call
A practitioner, not a salesperson, walks through targets, constraints and what a good outcome looks like for you.
- 02
Proposal & rules of engagement
A fixed-scope proposal with tier, price and deliverables. Rules of engagement, contacts and out-of-bounds systems are agreed in writing.
- 03
Sign, then start
MSA and SOW are signed electronically and the deposit is paid. Only then does testing begin.
- 04
Execution
Testing runs to the agreed plan. Critical findings are escalated as they are found; you don't wait for the report.
- 05
Report & debrief
An executive summary plus technical findings with evidence, reproduction steps and fixes, walked through with your team.
- 06
Retest
Where the tier includes it, we verify your fixes and reissue the report, so auditors and customers see the issues closed.
Timelines are set per engagement in the SOW.
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