Independent IT Audit & Compliance — Austin, TX

Know where you stand against NIST, CMMC, and Texas DIR — before your customer asks.

KGA Partners performs independent compliance assessments for small and midsize businesses, then hands you a prioritized, executive-ready roadmap. We assess. You implement.

What We Do

Five ways we bring structure to your compliance posture

Each engagement is scoped to your framework, your risk profile, and what your next audit or customer questionnaire actually requires.

01

NIST SP 800-53 Assessments

Complete gap analysis against NIST 800-53 Rev. 5 controls, with risk scoring and an executive dashboard.

02

CMMC Level 2 Assessments

Readiness assessment against all 110 NIST SP 800-171 controls, with maturity scoring and gap analysis.

03

Texas DIR Compliance Reviews

Assessed against the Texas DIR Security Control Standards Catalog to identify gaps required for state contracts.

04

ITGC & Security Control Reviews

Access, change management, backup & recovery, security operations, and monitoring — assessed and tested.

05

Executive Report & Remediation Plan

A one-page summary for decision-makers, plus a prioritized plan to fix the most urgent gaps first.

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Why KGA Partners

Built to be fast, clear, and independent

Framework expertise

NIST, CMMC, Texas DIR, and ITGC — assessed by someone who works in all four regularly.

Executive-ready reports

Findings your leadership team can actually read and act on, not just a control checklist.

Cost-effective

Right-sized for small and midsize businesses — no enterprise consulting overhead.

Fast turnaround

Proven assessment engines mean faster findings without cutting corners on evidence.

Our Independence Principle

We assess what's there. We never audit what we built.

If you can hand our recommendation to any IT provider and they can execute it without us in the room, we've done our job correctly.

Advising what to doYes — this is the engagement
Advising how, in detailCase by case
Doing the fix ourselvesNo
Auditing our own buildNever

We don't configure firewalls, set up MFA, deploy backup systems, tune SIEMs, or patch anything.

We hand you clarity and a roadmap — not a bill for fixing what we found.

Who We Serve

Built for teams without an internal audit function

  • Small businesses, roughly 1–50 employees
  • Startups preparing for their first real audit
  • Companies working toward SOC, CMMC, NIST, or Texas DIR requirements
  • Organizations with no internal audit function
  • Teams that need structured ITGC guidance, not a lecture
  • Businesses with compliance gaps or unclear security processes
Free Resources

ITGC fundamentals, explained plainly

We publish a running series on LinkedIn breaking down access management, change management, backup & recovery, security operations, and monitoring — the exact areas most audits test first.

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"I give you clarity, structure, and a prioritized roadmap. I assess — you implement. I keep you audit-ready without overcomplicating your environment."

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