A clear line of sight on compliance, security, and governance.
Vantage Point Group helps Illinois organizations build compliance, information security, and governance programs that hold up — to regulators, to auditors, and to the next incident.
Three disciplines, one program.
Compliance, security, and governance are usually run as separate efforts. We build them as one program, so a control satisfies an auditor, closes a security gap, and reports to the board — at the same time.
Compliance
Programs built for the regulations that actually apply to your organization — and evidence that holds up when someone asks for it.
- Regulatory gap assessments
- Illinois BIPA & PIPA compliance reviews
- HIPAA, GLBA & PCI DSS programs
- Policy & control documentation
- Audit readiness & remediation
- Third-party & vendor risk reviews
Information Security
Security programs sized to your organization and built on frameworks your customers and regulators already recognize.
- NIST CSF 2.0 program design
- ISO/IEC 27001 readiness
- SOC 2 readiness & gap remediation
- Security policy & standards development
- Incident response planning
- Cloud & vendor security reviews
Governance
The structures that keep compliance and security decisions connected to the business, not filed away in a binder.
- Governance framework design
- Board & executive risk reporting
- Risk committee structuring
- Policy lifecycle management
- Roles & responsibilities (RACI) design
- Metrics & KPI reporting programs
How an engagement runs.
Every engagement moves through the same four stages, in this order. What changes is scope — a two-week gap assessment and a year-long program both follow this path.
See where you stand
A current-state review of controls, policies, and regulatory obligations to find the gaps that actually matter.
Build the right fit
Frameworks and policies sized to your risk and resources — not a template pulled from a larger company.
Put it into practice
Hands-on support putting controls, documentation, and reporting into daily operation, not just on paper.
Keep it current
Ongoing monitoring, testing, and reporting so the program keeps pace as regulations and risks change.
Illinois obligations, national frameworks.
We work from the specific rules your organization is held to — state, federal, and contractual — rather than a generic security checklist.
Illinois & state law
- BIPABiometric Information Privacy Act
- PIPAPersonal Information Protection Act
- Illinois Insurance Data Security Law215 ILCS 180
- Student Online Personal Protection ActSOPPA
Federal & industry frameworks
- NIST CSF 2.0Cybersecurity framework
- ISO/IEC 27001Information security management
- SOC 2Trust services criteria
- HIPAA · GLBA · PCI DSSSector-specific requirements
"Vantage point" is a place to stand where you can see the whole terrain — not just the piece in front of you.
Vantage Point Group, LLC is an Illinois-based consulting firm built around that idea. Compliance, information security, and governance are treated as three separate jobs almost everywhere — run by different people, tracked in different spreadsheets, reported to different audiences. That's how organizations end up with a security control that fails an audit, or a policy that was never actually implemented.
We work as an extension of your team: assessing where a program actually stands, designing controls and policies that fit the organization you have, and staying involved long enough to see them working — not just written down.
Our clients are small and mid-sized organizations across Illinois and the broader Midwest — healthcare groups, financial and insurance firms, municipalities, and growing companies that are being asked for a SOC 2 report or a security questionnaire for the first time. We size every engagement to the organization in front of us.
Start with a conversation.
Tell us where your program stands today. We'll follow up to schedule a short call and, if it's a fit, scope an assessment.
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- Location
- Illinois, USA
- Online
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