Question 1

Will Altaarx sign a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) for HIPAA-covered work?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Any engagement involving Protected Health Information includes a BAA signed before kickoff. We routinely engage with mid-market medical practices and digital-health startups under HIPAA scope, with corresponding HITRUST-aligned controls when an enterprise customer or payer requires them.

Question 2

We're a registered investment adviser. Does Altaarx understand Reg S-P?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The 2024 Regulation S-P amendments take effect for smaller investment advisers on June 3, 2026 — roughly six weeks from now — and impose written incident-response programs, 30-day customer notification, and service-provider oversight. Altaarx's audit deliverable maps your AI-touching workflows to those obligations and produces the documentation an SEC examiner is empowered to request.

Question 3

How is this different from a traditional cybersecurity consultancy or a generic AI integrator?

Accepted Answer

A traditional cybersecurity consultancy will harden your perimeter; a generic AI integrator will ship you a model. Altaarx does the third thing — the governance layer that connects them. Our engagements always produce two artifacts in parallel: a working AI integration and the regulator-grade documentation that explains why each control exists.

Question 4

Which frameworks does Altaarx work in?

Accepted Answer

NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0, NIST AI RMF (AI 100-1) and the Generative AI Profile (AI 600-1), ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 42001 (AI management systems), HIPAA Security Rule, PCI DSS v4.0, GDPR, CIS Controls v8, OWASP Top 10 (web) and OWASP LLM Top 10. We map every engagement to whichever subset actually examines the client.

Question 5

Does Altaarx work on agentic AI systems specifically?

Accepted Answer

Yes — agentic systems are where the governance layer matters most. Autonomy raises the stakes on every control: prompt boundaries, tool-use policies, audit logging at every action, human-in-the-loop gates at decisions with consequence. Our Strategy Sprint engagement designs these explicitly, and the Fractional Security Officer retainer is the right shape for ongoing agentic deployments.

Question 6

Who isn't a good fit for Altaarx?

Accepted Answer

Pre-revenue startups looking to bolt an LLM onto a landing page; firms whose only AI question is "which chatbot vendor"; anyone seeking to use AI to circumvent governance rather than operate within it. We work best with institutions that already take their compliance posture seriously and need the same standard applied to AI.

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