Straight answers for Denver companies on SOC 2, ISO 27001, local regulation, timelines and cost.
Does Tranquility Cybersecurity have an office in Denver?
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No. Denver, Boulder and the Front Range are part of our US service area. We are headquartered in Gurugram, India and serve Colorado from there; engagements run over video in Mountain working hours, with on-site days available for audits when scope requires. Most of a SOC 2 or ISO 27001 engagement runs over video and shared trackers regardless of where the consultant sits.
Can an India-based consultancy prepare a US company for SOC 2?
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Yes. A SOC 2 report is signed by an independent licensed US CPA firm operating under AICPA attestation standards; the location of the readiness consultant does not affect the report’s validity. TCSA prepares you — scoping, controls, policies, evidence — and coordinates the CPA firm through fieldwork to the signed report. We do not sign or issue the report, and no consultant legitimately can.
We are an aerospace supplier. Can you help with CMMC?
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No. CMMC assessments are performed by US-accredited assessment organisations, and we do not run them or present ourselves as able to. Where we help aerospace and defence suppliers is the commercial side: the SOC 2 report or ISO 27001 certificate that primes, airlines and satellite operators ask for. If you are pursuing both, we design the ISMS so policies and evidence are shared with your CMMC effort rather than duplicated.
Does the Colorado Privacy Act apply to our startup?
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It applies to controllers doing business in Colorado that process personal data of a large number of Colorado consumers in a year, or that sell personal data and process a smaller number — check the current thresholds, and note there is no revenue test. If you are in scope, the duties are rights handling, notices, data-protection assessments and opt-out signals; we map them onto your SOC 2 or ISO 27001 programme, and ISO 27701 where privacy is central to the product.
A utility customer is asking about business continuity. Is ISO 22301 the answer?
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Often. Utilities and operators ask vendors for evidence that continuity plans exist and have been exercised, and ISO 22301 turns that into a certifiable management system built on business impact analysis, recovery strategies and tested plans. It builds on ISO 27001 where you have it, and the Availability criteria of SOC 2 draw on the same evidence.
How long does SOC 2 take for a Denver SaaS company?
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Readiness typically takes 8–12 weeks for a company with a reasonable security baseline. A Type I report can follow within weeks of readiness. Type II needs an observation window, commonly 3 to 12 months, plus the CPA examination. Anyone promising a Type II in weeks is describing readiness, not the attestation.
Can you work with our existing compliance-automation platform?
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Yes. Whether you run Vanta, Drata, Secureframe or a home-grown tracker, we design the controls, write the policies and prepare the audit while the platform collects evidence. You do not need to buy software to work with us, and we do not resell any.
How is pricing structured for a Denver engagement?
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Fixed fee, agreed in writing after a scoping call and invoiced in USD or INR. Typical bands are USD 2,500 – 6,000 for SOC 2 readiness consulting and USD 3,000 – 8,000 for ISO 27001 implementation; HIPAA risk analysis and ISO 22301 are scoped to the systems and services involved. CPA attestation and certification-body fees are quoted separately by those firms, and we help you scope them so there are no surprises.