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The Compliance Jumpstart Bundle
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Everything You Need to Kick-Start Compliance.
Fifteen hand-picked toolkits, audio masterclasses, and support documents that take you from “which framework, and where do we start?” to a real, defensible program across PCI DSS, SOC 2, ISO 27001 and more — pulled straight from the Compliance Security Academy membership. Yours free.
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THE PROBLEM
Why Compliance Projects Stall Before They Start.
Every framework — PCI DSS, SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, NIST, and many more — asks for the same thing in different words: prove your security program is real, documented, and defensible. The trouble is that almost nobody starts with a template.
So teams burn weeks rebuilding policies, control mappings, and evidence from scratch — work thousands of organizations before them have already done — and still walk into the assessment unsure whether what they built is what the auditor actually wants.
Compliance rarely fails on the security itself. It fails on the scoping, the paperwork, and the evidence — the parts nobody warned you about. The Compliance Jumpstart hands you that work, done right — so you can stop starting over and start closing gaps.
Get the CSA Jumpstart Bundle™ — FREE.
The Compliance Jumpstart isn’t theory. It’s fifteen of the exact assets used to build real compliance programs: The documents you’ll actually submit, the audio classes that make each framework make sense, and the checks that tell you where you truly stand. Complete, usable, and yours to keep.
WHAT'S INSIDE
Fifteen Assets. Three Pillars. One Running Start. All Completely FREE!
Complete samples pulled straight from the full Compliance Security Academy membership — the same artifacts used to build programs that pass.
Toolkits & Templates
ISO 27001 → SOC 2 Mapping Matrix (sample)
01.
Map ISO 27001 clauses and Annex A controls to SOC 2 criteria, with mapping strength and shared evidence notes. The sample covers every clause plus organizational and people controls for both programs.
ISMS Internal Audit Program (sample)
03.
Plan ISO 27001 internal audits with a 3-year schedule, audit plan, findings register and clause testing checklists. The sample includes 20 Annex A checklists spanning all four security control themes.
AWS Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Plan (sample)
05.
Use an AWS continuity and disaster recovery plan covering recovery objectives, business impact analysis, four DR strategies and disaster declaration. It covers activation steps and a recovery runbook.
PCI DSS v4.0.1 Policies & Procedures Manual (sample)
07.
Explore a PCI DSS v4.0.1 manual with policies, definitions, procedures and evidence documents. The sample covers Requirements 1-4: network controls, configurations, stored data and transit encryption.
Access Control Policy & Procedures (sample)
02.
Build an access control policy covering governance, roles, least privilege, approvals, authentication, MFA, privileged accounts and access reviews. Sample includes seven complete audit-ready sections.
Microsoft Azure Incident Response Plan (sample)
04.
Respond to Azure incidents with Entra ID containment, KQL investigation queries, team roles, severity levels and six handling phases. Has sample playbooks for compromised users and service principals.
NIST 800-53 Rev. 5 Awareness & Training Policy (sample)
06.
Document security awareness and role-based training with NIST control statements and practical implementation guidance. The sample includes all the front matter and controls AT-1 through AT-3 in full.
Audio Masterclasses
ISO 27001: "Introduction to ISO 27001" (Part I)
08.
Understand ISO 27001, its management-system clauses and Annex A controls and why organizations seek certification. Learn the framework basics before committing time and budget to the security program.
SOC 2: "Mastering Bridge Letters and CUECs" (Part I)
10.
Understand SOC 2 bridge letters and Complementary User Entity Controls (CUECs). Learn how letters address report date gaps, which controls customers must own, when each applies and how to manage both.
SOC 1: "ICFR - The Backbone of SOC 1 Audit Reporting"
09.
Understand SOC 1 and internal control over financial reporting in plain terms. Learn which controls affect customer financial statements, what auditors test and how SOC 1 differs from the SOC 2 audit.
SOC 2 in the Cloud: "AWS" (Part I)
11.
Learn how SOC 2 works on AWS where cloud provider responsibility ends and yours begins, what the AWS SOC 2 report covers and which controls your auditor expects an organization to own and demonstrate.
CJIS Support Library Assets
ISO 27001 Quick Guide: Building Your ISMS
12.
Design an audit-ready ISO 27001 ISMS with your scope, context analysis, policies, governance roles, meeting cadence and document hierarchy. Align leadership with an ISMS charter before implementation.
SOC 2 Quick Guide: Scope & System Boundary Design
14.
Define the SOC 2 system boundary to manage audit scope, timing and cost. Document five system components, decide what is included, excluded or shared, and avoid common boundary and description errors.
SOC 1 Quick Guide: ICFR, Business Process Controls & ITGCs
13.
Explore ICFR assertions, business process controls, IT general controls and SOC 1 scope. Get audit-ready examples across payroll, claims, funds, payments and revenue cycle, from assertion to evidence.
PCI DSS Quick Guide: Scoping & Segmentation
15.
Define PCI DSS v4.0.1 scope, cardholder data environments and system categories. Explore segmentation, tokenization, P2PE, outsourcing, cloud scoping and annual scope confirmation to lower audit fees.
WHAT YOU WALK AWAY WITH:
A strong compliance program starts with knowing exactly where you stand and what needs to happen next.
The Compliance Jumpstart Bundle™ helps you turn scattered requirements into a practical action plan by giving you the framework guidance, scoping tools, audit-ready templates, and readiness checks needed to build with more confidence. Instead of starting from scratch, you can focus on closing the right gaps, reusing controls across frameworks, and creating a program that is organized, documented, and ready for review.
By the Time You’ve Worked Through it, You’ll Have:
The Right Framework: Chosen with confidence instead of guesswork
Correct Scope From Day One: The single biggest driver of cost and timeline.
Audit-Ready Templates: You can adapt in an afternoon, not a month.
One Control Set, Many Frameworks: Do the work once and reuse it.
An Honest Read on Readiness: Plus a prioritized list of what to fix first.
WHO IT’S FOR
Built from more than two decades of hands-on security and compliance experience, Compliance Security Academy gives organizations a practical path to becoming audit-ready.
Charles Denyer has spent 20+ years in the trenches of security and compliance — across DoD, the intelligence community, NIST RMF, FISMA, FedRAMP, DFARS, ISO 27001, SOC, and PCI DSS.
He built Compliance Security Academy on a simple idea: the frameworks are complicated, but getting started shouldn’t require a six-figure consulting engagement. The Academy gives teams the same documents, explanations, and readiness tools the professionals use — on a subscription, not a retainer.
WHO’S BEHIND IT
Created by Charles Denyer
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The Bundle Gets You Started. Membership Keeps You Audit-Ready.
The full Compliance Security Academy membership is the always-current, multi-framework library teams use to run an entire compliance program:
100+ Toolkits & Templates
Policies, SSPs, workbooks, and mappings across SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, NIST.
A Full Support Library
Checklists, registers, self-assessments, and explainers.
Multi-Framework Audio Courses
PCI DSS, SOC 2, ISO 27001 and more, plus the Assurance Auditor program.
Continuity & Recovery Suites
Cloud BCDR and contingency plans for Azure, AWS, and GCP.
Annual All-Access membership · [set pricing]
QUESTIONS, ANSWERED
Everything You Need to Know Before You Download.
Is it Really Free?
Yes. You give us an email, we send the kit. No credit card, no account, no catch.
Do I have to create an account?
No. The bundle is delivered straight to your inbox. Accounts exist only for annual members.
Who is this for?
Any team pursuing SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, or NIST — and the consultants who support them
What happens after I download it?
You’ll get the bundle, plus a short series of emails showing how to put it to work. Unsubscribe anytime.
Which framework does it cover?
Several. The mapping and self-check are framework-agnostic; the audio focuses on PCI DSS and SOC 2; membership covers all major frameworks.
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