Pistos is a cybersecurity compliance firm built on the premise that continuous audit readiness should not require an enterprise budget or an internal security team. PCS — the Pistos Compliance Suite — is the AI engine that makes it possible for any regulated organization to face an examiner with confidence, today and every day after.
Pete Sfoglia founded Pistos after more than two decades advising Fortune 500 institutions on cybersecurity compliance at the partner level across Ernst & Young, Accenture, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Wipro. His client work spanned financial services, energy, media, and manufacturing — including engagements with some of the largest financial institutions and energy companies in the United States.
At Pistos, Pete channels that institutional methodology into a platform and program designed for the organizations that need it most — regulated firms under 500 employees who face the same compliance obligations as the Fortune 500 but without the internal security staff to meet them.
Pete has written for National Defense Magazine and Insurance Journal on CMMC, NY DFS, third-party risk, and the intersection of AI and regulatory compliance. He was featured in Wall Street Journal coverage of the July 2024 CrowdStrike outage, drawing on his direct experience working alongside CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz during a prior incident at McAfee.
"The compliance problems facing organizations under 500 employees are identical to the ones I solved for Fortune 500 institutions. The difference is that those institutions had a hundred-person security function. Pistos is what I would have built for them if they had to do it alone."
— Pete Sfoglia, Founder
Pete has written on cybersecurity compliance since 2019 — CMMC, NY DFS, third-party risk, and the convergence of AI and regulation. His published work predates the platform and reflects the thinking that shaped it.
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pistos / faithful
The Greek word pistos means faithful — trustworthy, reliable, worthy of confidence. It is the quality that every regulated organization must demonstrate to its examiners, its clients, its partners, and its board.
Compliance is not a filing. It is a continuous demonstration of faithfulness to your obligations. Pistos is built to make that demonstration permanent — not periodic.
PCS — the Pistos Compliance Suite — keeps regulated organizations continuously audit-ready by generating the configurations, policies, training, DR/IR automation, and reports that a compliance program requires. The CISO layer, Aegis, is delivered either by Pistos or empowers the client's own internal CISO.
The reason no platform has solved continuous compliance currency before is that monitoring 14 regulatory frameworks, 172 CIS safeguards, 44 vendor products, and an evolving threat landscape simultaneously was a human labor problem of impossible scale. AI eliminates that constraint.
"Faithful in discipline. Steadfast in execution. Accountable in outcome."
Compliance that only exists during examination preparation is not compliance. Every system we build is designed for continuous operation — not for audit season.
Policies without evidence records fail audits. We build the evidence — dated, linked to controls, and organized before anyone asks for it.
We do not ask your tools if they are compliant. We read what is actually configured — the state of your environment as it exists, not as a vendor dashboard represents it.
Every mapping, every framework citation, every vendor coverage rating is maintained current by AI — not published once and left to go stale on a server.
Pistos serves financial services firms, healthcare organizations, and defense contractors across the United States — with deep expertise in NY DFS 23 NYCRR 500, HIPAA, CMMC 2.0, and the full family of overlapping frameworks that regulated industries navigate.
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