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SOC 2 Readiness Assessment and Audit Preparation.

Achieving SOC 2 compliance is a significant milestone for any organization. Our Audit Preparation service is tailored to ensure your success by making the audit process as smooth and efficient as possible. We provide hands-on support, from policy documentation to the implementation of controls, ensuring you’re fully prepared for the auditor’s evaluation.

Achieving SOC 2 compliance is a significant milestone for
any organization. Our Audit Preparation service is tailored to ensure your
success by making the audit process as smooth and efficient as possible. We
provide hands-on support, from policy documentation to the implementation of
controls, ensuring you’re fully prepared for the auditor’s evaluation.

Policy and Procedure Review: Ensuring your documentation

accurately reflects your security and privacy controls and practices.

Control Implementation Support: Assistance in implementing
or enhancing controls to meet SOC 2 requirements.

Mock Audit: Conducting a pre-audit assessment to identify
any remaining gaps and prepare your team for the actual audit process.

 Why SOC 2?

SOC 2 is a voluntary compliance standard for service organizations, developed by the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA), which specifies how organizations should manage customer data. The standard is based on the following Trust Services Criteria;

  • Security
  • Availability
  • Confidentiality
  • Privacy 
  • Processing Integrity

The SOC 2 audit is designed to ensure a company’s data security practices are up to snuff. If your company has never undergone a SOC 2 audit, it’s important to understand the process.

Before undergoing a formal SOC 2 audit, an organization should complete a SOC 2 readiness assessment. This can ensure a smoother audit by helping your company to identify any gaps in data security before the SOC 2 audit begins.

The assessment will help you determine whether your organization has proper controls in place to protect customer data from external threats. If not, it will provide recommendations for ways to improve those controls so that they meet the requirements of SOC 2 certification.