Assessment Date: August 4, 2026
Project: Compliance Concierge (FIPCO)
MSP Program: Feb 2026 - Aug 2026 Checklist (46 requirements)
Completion: 2% (1/46 requirements fully addressed)
- ✅ Addressed: 1 requirement (2%)
⚠️ Partial: 0 requirements (0%)- ❌ Gap: 45 requirements (98%)
- ⬜ Not Applicable: 0 requirements (0%)
- 🔴 Critical Gaps: 16 requirements
- 🟠 High Gaps: 26 requirements
- 🟡 Medium Gaps: 3 requirements
- 🟢 Low Gaps: 0 requirements
Total Estimated Effort: 468 hours (~12 weeks for 1 person, or ~3 weeks for a team of 4)
All manual documentation requirements - no AWS automation possible
| ID | Name | Status | Effort | Automation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BUS-001 | Company Overview | ❌ Gap | 8h | 📋 Manual |
| BUS-002 | MSP Practice Growth | ❌ Gap | 4h | 📋 Manual |
| BUS-003 | Financial Planning | ❌ Gap | 4h | 📋 Manual |
| BUS-004 | Go-To-Market | ❌ Gap | 8h | 📋 Manual |
Total: 24 hours
Actions Needed:
- Company presentation and portfolio documentation
- Customer growth metrics (≥4 new customers in 18 months)
- Financial planning processes and reports
- Sales enablement and GTM documentation
Primarily manual documentation with some IAM integration
| ID | Name | Status | Effort | Automation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PEO-001 | Personnel Onboarding | ❌ Gap | 4h | 📋 Manual |
| PEO-002 | CCOE | ❌ Gap | 16h | 📋 Manual |
| PEO-003 | Personnel Offboarding | ❌ Gap | 4h | 🔄 Partial (33%) |
Total: 24 hours
Actions Needed:
- Onboarding checklists and training plans
- Cloud Center of Excellence charter and structure
- Offboarding procedures + IAM access revocation
All manual documentation requirements
| ID | Name | Status | Effort | Automation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GOV-001 | Risk & Mitigation | ❌ Gap | 12h | 📋 Manual |
| GOV-002 | Customer Satisfaction | ❌ Gap | 8h | 📋 Manual |
| GOV-003 | Data Ownership | ❌ Gap | 8h | 📋 Manual |
| GOV-004 | Operational Readiness | ❌ Gap | 8h | 📋 Manual |
| GOV-005 | Shared Responsibility | ❌ Gap | 4h | 📋 Manual |
| GOV-006 | Sustainability | ❌ Gap | 4h | 📋 Manual |
Total: 44 hours
Actions Needed:
- Risk register and mitigation plans
- Customer satisfaction surveys and metrics
- Data governance policies and offboarding procedures
- Operational readiness framework
- Shared responsibility model documentation
- Sustainability best practices
Mix of automated and manual requirements
| ID | Name | Status | Effort | Automation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PLAT-001 | Account Management | ❌ Gap | 4h | ✅ Full (100%) |
| PLAT-002 | Solution Capabilities | ❌ Gap | 8h | 📋 Manual |
| PLAT-003 | NFR Documentation | ❌ Gap | 8h | 📋 Manual |
| PLAT-004 | Well-Architected | ❌ Gap | 32h | 🔄 Partial (50%) |
| PLAT-005 | Service Expertise | ❌ Gap | 8h | 📋 Manual |
Total: 60 hours
Actions Needed:
- Account isolation documentation (AWS Organizations)
- Solution capabilities matrix
- NFR templates and documentation
- Well-Architected Reviews (semi-automated)
- Service expertise documentation
Best category - mix of automated and semi-automated
| ID | Name | Status | Effort | Automation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SEC-001 | Security Policies | ❌ Gap | 8h | 🔄 Partial |
| SEC-002 | Security Training | ❌ Gap | 4h | 📋 Manual |
| SEC-003 | AWS Account Config | ❌ Gap | 8h | ✅ Full (100%) |
| SEC-004 | IAM | ❌ Gap | 8h | ✅ Full (100%) |
| SEC-005 | Policy Management | ❌ Gap | 4h | ✅ Full (100%) |
| SEC-006 | RBAC | ❌ Gap | 8h | ✅ Full (100%) |
| SEC-007 | MFA | ❌ Gap | 4h | ✅ Full (100%) |
| SEC-008 | Vulnerability Mgmt | ✅ Addressed | 0h | ✅ Full (100%) |
| SEC-009 | Security Logging | ❌ Gap | 8h | ✅ Full (100%) |
| SEC-010 | SaaS Tooling Access | ❌ Gap | 4h | 🔄 Partial |
Total: 56 hours
What's Working:
- ✅ SEC-008: Vulnerability Management (Inspector enabled)
Actions Needed:
- Security policies documentation
- Training records
- Enable AWS Config, enforce MFA
- IAM analysis and RBAC validation
- CloudTrail logging verification
Largest category - significant work needed
| ID | Name | Status | Effort | Automation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OPS-001 | Service Level Mgmt | ❌ Gap | 12h | 🔄 Partial |
| OPS-002 | Support Plan (Partner) | ❌ Gap | 4h | ✅ Full |
| OPS-003 | Support Plan (Customer) | ❌ Gap | 4h | ✅ Full |
| OPS-004 | Service Desk | ❌ Gap | 16h | 🔄 Partial |
| OPS-005 | ITSM Platform | ❌ Gap | 24h | 🔄 Partial |
| OPS-006 | Release Management | ❌ Gap | 8h | 🔄 Partial |
| OPS-007 | Config Management | ❌ Gap | 12h | 🔄 Partial |
| OPS-008 | Patch Management | ❌ Gap | 8h | ✅ Full |
| OPS-009 | CI/CD Pipelines | ❌ Gap | 8h | 🔄 Partial |
| OPS-010 | Event Management | ❌ Gap | 8h | ✅ Full |
| OPS-011 | Operational Runbooks | ❌ Gap | 16h | 📋 Manual |
| OPS-012 | Anomaly Detection | ❌ Gap | 8h | ✅ Full |
| OPS-013 | AIOps (recommended) | ❌ Gap | 16h | 🔄 Partial |
| OPS-014 | Knowledge Mgmt | ❌ Gap | 12h | 📋 Manual |
| OPS-015 | Disaster Recovery | ❌ Gap | 24h | 🔄 Partial |
| OPS-016 | FinOps | ❌ Gap | 12h | 🔄 Partial |
| OPS-017 | Migrations | ❌ Gap | 8h | 📋 Manual |
| OPS-018 | AI/ML (recommended) | ❌ Gap | 8h | 📋 Manual |
Total: 208 hours
Actions Needed:
- SLA/SLO documentation and monitoring
- AWS Support plan validation
- Service desk and ITSM platform
- Release and change management processes
- CI/CD pipeline documentation
- Monitoring, alerting, anomaly detection
- Runbooks and knowledge base
- DR plans and testing
- Cost management and FinOps
These can be addressed with AWS evidence collectors:
- Security (7): SEC-003, SEC-004, SEC-005, SEC-006, SEC-007, SEC-008, SEC-009
- Operations (5): OPS-002, OPS-003, OPS-008, OPS-010, OPS-012
- Platform (1): PLAT-001
Effort: ~50 hours (mostly AWS configuration validation)
Mix of AWS automation + manual documentation:
- Security (2): SEC-001, SEC-010
- Operations (8): OPS-001, OPS-004, OPS-005, OPS-006, OPS-007, OPS-009, OPS-013, OPS-015, OPS-016
- Platform (1): PLAT-004
- People (1): PEO-003
Effort: ~150 hours (AWS + documentation)
Require human documentation - templates provided:
- Business (4): All (BUS-001 to BUS-004)
- People (2): PEO-001, PEO-002
- Governance (6): All (GOV-001 to GOV-006)
- Platform (3): PLAT-002, PLAT-003, PLAT-005
- Security (1): SEC-002
- Operations (3): OPS-011, OPS-014, OPS-017, OPS-018
Effort: ~268 hours (pure documentation)
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PEO-003: Personnel Offboarding (4h)
- Security risk: Access revocation procedures
- Template:
fipco-infra/docs/msp/people/peo-003-personnel-offboarding.md - 33% automated (IAM), need offboarding checklist
-
SEC-007: Multi-Factor Authentication (4h)
- Security risk: Human access without MFA
- Action: Enable MFA enforcement in IAM
- 100% automated validation
-
OPS-015: Disaster Recovery (24h)
- Business continuity risk
- Action: DR plan + backup validation + testing
- Partial automation (backup checks)
-
GOV-003: Data Ownership (8h)
- Compliance risk: Customer offboarding unclear
- Template:
fipco-infra/docs/msp/governance/gov-003-data-ownership-and-customer-offboarding.md
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PLAT-001: Account Management (4h)
- Security risk: Account isolation
- Action: Document AWS Organizations structure
- 100% automated validation
Subtotal: 44 hours (~1 week for 1 person)
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46 Playbooks (
playbooks/)- Step-by-step guidance for each requirement
- Automation indicators (full/partial/manual)
- Validation checklists
- Template references
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13 Document Templates (
fipco-infra/docs/msp/)- Business: 4 templates
- People: 3 templates
- Governance: 6 templates
- Ready to fill with project-specific information
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Assessment Reports
- Markdown:
assessment-report.md - JSON:
assessment-report.json - Enhanced HTML:
msp-assessment-report.html
- Markdown:
-
Compliance Package (
fipco-compliance-package/)- Executive summary
- Detailed reports
- Playbooks organized by category
- Evidence artifacts
- README for audit submission
Focus on critical gaps with high automation:
- SEC-007: Enable MFA (4h) - Automated
- PLAT-001: Account isolation docs (4h) - Automated
- PEO-003: Offboarding checklist (4h) - Template provided
- GOV-003: Data ownership policy (8h) - Template provided
- SEC-003: AWS Config setup (8h) - Automated
- OPS-002: Support plan validation (4h) - Automated
- SEC-006: RBAC validation (8h) - Automated
Expected Outcome: 7 requirements completed, 15% → 30% completion
Fill templates for manual requirements:
- All Business requirements (24h)
- All Governance requirements (44h)
- Remaining People requirements (20h)
- Platform documentation (12h)
Expected Outcome: 18+ requirements completed, 30% → 70% completion
Tackle remaining operations requirements:
- Service desk and ITSM setup
- DR plans and testing
- Monitoring and alerting
- Runbooks and knowledge base
- FinOps processes
Expected Outcome: Remaining requirements completed, 70% → 100%
- ✅ Vulnerability Management working (SEC-008)
- ✅ CDK infrastructure well-documented (23 stack files)
- ✅ High automation potential (46% fully automated)
- ✅ Templates available for all manual work
- ❌ Zero business/governance documentation
- ❌ No operational documentation (SLAs, runbooks)
- ❌ Limited security policies documented
- ❌ Missing DR plan and testing
- 📈 Quick wins available: 21 requirements can be automated
- 📈 Templates ready: 13 templates to accelerate manual work
- 📈 Playbooks guide: 46 playbooks provide clear path forward
- 📈 70% achievable in 6 weeks with focused effort
⚠️ Large effort required: 468 hours total⚠️ Critical gaps: 16 requirements are critical priority⚠️ Manual work: 39% requires human documentation⚠️ Operations weak: 0/18 operations requirements met
- Review this status with stakeholders
- Prioritize Phase 1 critical gaps (1 week effort)
- Assign documentation owners for manual templates
- Run AWS collectors to validate technical requirements
- Schedule weekly assessments to track progress
Command to re-assess:
npm run dev -- assessTrack progress:
npm run dev -- gaps --by-priority
npm run dev -- validateStatus Summary: fipco-infra is at 2% MSP readiness with clear path to 100% over 12 weeks.