Aly's in-house work included defining scope, implementing controls across engineering and operations, building evidence collection that held up across full observation periods, working directly with audit firms through multiple examinations, and maintaining compliance year over year.

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Managing compliance from the inside teaches what studying it does not: where companies actually encounter difficulty, which controls auditors scrutinize and which they accept, and how much scope is sufficient rather than excessive.

 

That is why engagements here tend to be tighter and more predictable than a defensive, over-scoped approach.​

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Aly has led startups through SOC 2, from first scoping to a completed audit, and has supported compliance programs at larger companies across SOC 2, HIPAA and PCI. Because ISO 27001 shares much of its control foundation with SOC 2, that experience carries over to ISO 27001 readiness work.​

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His hands-on background covers cloud security on AWS and Azure, identity and access management, zero trust networking and DevSecOps, at startups, Fortune 500 companies and government organizations.

 

We are a small practice by design. You work directly with the person performing the work, not an account manager and a rotating team of juniors.

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We are also clear about the boundaries of the role. We advise and prepare. Your team decides and implements. Your auditor determines the outcome. Being direct about that from the outset is what makes the engagement successful.