Services
Six ways Knox Technology Advisors works with clients. Each begins with a scoped, fixed-fee assessment, so you can judge the thinking before committing to a program.
What this practice knows cold, and what it doesn't
Most advisory sites list every regulation they have heard of. Being specific seems more useful, because the distinction below is exactly the judgment you would be hiring this practice for.
Direct program experience
FERPA, COPPA, SOPPA, CCPA, and SEC investment adviser obligations, including the operational differences between exempt reporting adviser and registered adviser status. Knox Technology Advisors has built, operated, and been accountable for programs under each of these, and can tell you how they behave under load, where teams stop complying, and what an examiner looks at first.
What transfers to other regimes
The control architecture, which is largely regulation-agnostic: data classification and lifecycle management, access control and least privilege, third-party and vendor risk assessment, evidence production and audit readiness, incident and breach response process design, and NIST-aligned risk assessment. A well-built program under one regime gives you real structural advantage under another.
What does not transfer
Regulation-specific judgment. The particular obligations, notification timelines, safe harbors, permitted disclosures, enforcement posture, and examiner expectations of a regime this practice has not operated under. For HIPAA, GLBA, GDPR, or FCRA, Knox Technology Advisors can design and run the control program while working alongside your counsel or a specialist on the regulation-specific determinations. What it won't do is claim expertise in a regime it hasn't lived in.
You should be somewhat suspicious of anyone claiming fluency across six regulatory frameworks. Depth in a few and honest methodology transfer is a more useful thing to buy, and easier to verify.
How engagements start
- A 30-minute call. No charge, and if this isn't the right fit you'll hear that on the call, which happens more than you'd expect.
- A scoped assessment. Fixed fee, fixed timeline, written deliverable you own outright.
- A program, or not. Plenty of clients take the assessment and execute it themselves, which is a good outcome and gets said out loud.
Who this practice works with
Venture capital and private equity firms and their portfolio companies; mission-driven and nonprofit organizations; education and edtech. Joy has spent her career on both sides of that line, nearly two decades in the investment ecosystem and the last several as a nonprofit technology executive, and the governance problems rhyme more than either side expects.