Situation 05 / 08 — External pressure

Audit and compliance findings

Nothing has failed. The audit says it will.

A system that has never caused an incident can still fail an audit. Salem is called when an outside party — a regulator, a cyber insurer, an acquiring company’s IT organization — puts a date on a platform that the operations team considers perfectly stable.

Sound familiar

How Salem approaches it

01 Separate the finding from the actual exposure

Not every finding requires replacement, and not every stable system is as isolated as it appears. Salem maps what the finding requires against what the environment genuinely presents, so the response is scoped to the real gap.

02 Close what can be closed without a migration

Network segmentation, access control, supported-vendor coverage, and documented patch posture resolve a meaningful share of findings. Where a supported path exists on the current platform, Salem will say so rather than sell a project.

03 Build the migration case for what remains

For gaps that only replacement can close, Salem produces the technical and financial case in the form the audit committee or insurer actually needs, with a schedule that survives review.

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Platform migration

What is the remediation deadline?

Findings come with dates. Plans should too.

Send the finding and the platform details. Salem will come back with what can be closed in place, what requires a migration, and how long each takes.