Compliance Engineering

Engineering-First Compliance by Design

Build systems that are secure, auditable, and assessment-ready—by embedding compliance directly into the engineering lifecycle.

What Is Compliance Engineering?

Compliance Engineering is the practice of integrating compliance requirements—and the means to prove them—into the engineering lifecycle from the start. Rather than retrofitting documentation or remediating after-the-fact, Compliance Engineering enables organizations to design and build systems that are secure and compliant by default.

Compliance isn’t just cybersecurity.

It spans privacy, records management, cyber resilience, and beyond. Treating compliance as a distinct domain of practice—alongside engineering and cybersecurity—ensures your organization is prepared when audit time comes, not scrambling after it. As a side-effect, the very same practices that enable compliance also help ensure operational excellence through the implementation of best practices.

Through a structured, engineering-led process, 38North helps you design, implement, and validate systems that generate evidence automatically and tell a clear compliance story, while also helping you to implement the operational framework required for improving your overall delivery process.

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The 38North Compliance Engineering Process

Requirements Mapping

We gather and analyze the compliance requirements relevant to your market and translate them into engineering goals.

Artifact Identification

We define the evidence needed to satisfy each requirement and identify where and how it can be collected from your systems.

Evidence Automation

We build automation that collects, timestamps, and archives compliance artifacts—eliminating manual evidence collection.

Narrative Language

We develop the story that explains how your system satisfies requirements, shaping the narrative assessors expect.

GRC Integration

Where appropriate, we integrate automated evidence and compliance narratives into your GRC tooling for real-time tracking and reporting.

Monitoring and Maintenance

(optional)

After deployment, we assist with Continuous Monitoring and Operational activities, as needed.

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Our Compliance Engineering Offerings

Vuln Scanning

Design, implementation, and testing of a compliant vulnerability scanning solution.

SIEM

Design, implementation, and testing of a compliant Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system.

IAM/MFA

Design, implementation, and testing of secure Identity & Access Management (IAM) and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) solutions.

Hardening

Ensuring hosts and containers are configured to meet STIGs and CIS benchmarks.

Compliant CI/CD

Design, implementation, and testing of DevOps pipelines that produce the right compliance artifacts at every step of the chain.

Microservices Security

Design, implementation, and testing of secure Kubernetes and microservices architectures.

Compliant Cloud Architecture

Secure cloud network design with FIPS 140-2 encryption, segmentation, and automation. We can design a solution that meets sovereignty requirements based on geographic location and associated requirements.

Custom Tech Stacks

Whether it’s emerging or legacy technology, 38North compliance engineers are ready to implement a custom solution while maintaining compliance requirements. We focus on reusable Infrastructure as code (IaC).

Continuous Compliance

Automated compliance enforcement via cloud native and custom solutions, along with automated validation against applicable compliance standards.

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Why Compliance Engineering?

Compliance by Design

Requirements are accounted for from the start—reducing re-work and increasing audit readiness.

Objective and Measurable

Security can be subjective; compliance is measurable. We build systems that can prove what’s being done in real-time.

Engineering-Led

We don’t treat compliance as a checklist exercise. We treat it as an engineering problem—with engineering solutions.

Story-Ready

We help you tell the story assessors want to hear, with automated evidence to back it up.

Globally Aware

With 38North’s global footprint, we’re ready to tackle your engineering needs no matter where your data resides.

Ready to Engineer Compliance Into Your Stack?

Don’t wait for the audit to think about compliance. Build it into your systems now—with the process, proof, and story you need to succeed.

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