Compliance for
Your Reality

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Compliance is an increasing area of attention and concern by IT & Security teams, but also Boards of Directors, Auditors, Research, and Insurance Underwriters. Moran helps institutions build a real compliance program one that understands your data environment and addresses the risk so you’re ready for the next audit

Compliance Pressures Can Drive Needed Change

Compliance requirements in higher education keep expanding, and the GLBA, HIPAA, and CMMC landscape isn’t getting any simpler. Leadership wants assurance that your institution is ready before an audit ever happens, and reacting only when a review is on the calendar means you never build real traction.

You also know this pressure can be an opportunity. With the right approach, it gives you the leverage to finally address long-standing security and privacy gaps that have been hard to prioritize on their own.

Moran knows you need more than a list of what needs to be fixed. We work with CIOs, CISOs, compliance officers, and IT leaders to help them understand their full customer information environment and prioritize what to address first. Then we design a compliance program tailored to your institution that can be explained and maintained, so you’re ready well before the next audit arrives.

How We Make It Happen

At Moran, we treat compliance as a program, not a project.

Our assessment methodology evaluates your institution across five program dimensions and produces concrete deliverables your team can use, maintain, and build on. In fact, Moran can also monitor and mature your program in collaboration with you over time to ensure you are reaching your targets each year.

The Moran Approach

  • Plan

    Scope your compliance environment to avoid costly expansion of controls

  • Identify

    Map the data, systems, storage, and personnel supporting the compliance environment

  • Gap Analysis

    Assess your scoped compliance environment against the needed standard or regulation to understand gaps

  • Recommend

    Receive an actionable roadmap tailored to your institution for achieving compliance and reducing risk

What We Deliver

  • Data Map

  • Data Flow Diagram

  • Compliance Gap Analysis

  • Recommendations and Actionable Roadmap for Compliance

  • Moran helped us simplify GLBA compliance by providing a clear, actionable roadmap tailored to our institution. Their ability to combine technical expertise with a strong understanding of higher education made the process both approachable and achievable.

    Private Liberal Arts College Director of Information Technology
  • Moran provided the right balance of strategy, compliance expertise, and cost savings. Thanks to their vCISO services, we’ve strengthened our security posture without compromising other priorities. The Moran team has been a trusted resource when we’ve faced tough security and compliance decisions. Their depth of knowledge and ability to translate best practices into real-world solutions has been invaluable.

    Public Community College Executive Director of Information Technology
  • Over the years, our partnership with Moran has been paramount to our security strategy and organizational success. Their unwavering commitment to our security posture, strategic guidance, and hands-on support — especially through the placement of a dedicated virtual Chief Information Security Officer — has elevated our resilience and readiness in an increasingly complex threat landscape. They’ve been more than a vendor; they’ve been a true extension of our team.

    Private University Chief Information Officer
  • You have such a rockstar team on the SailPoint project. They are moving us along and it’s going great!

    Private University Chief Information Officer
  • Cybersecurity strategy evolves rapidly with emerging threats and as a small university with no dedicated cybersecurity staff, most of our efforts were still focused solely on protection and prevention. The Moran Cybersecurity team used the NIST CSF 2.0 as a tool to teach us what’s expected of a mature cybersecurity program and give us a roadmap to build a comprehensive program — all while demonstrating a nuanced understanding of the unique challenges small universities face.

    Private Liberal Arts University Chief Information Officer
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