SOC 2 Readiness Assessment & Advisory

SOC 2 READINESS ASSESSMENT & ADVISORY SERVICES

We help your organization provide assurance to customers, vendors, partners and investors that your cybersecurity program and its controls are effective at managing risk while aligning with SOC 2 requirements.

Ensure Readiness for SOC 2 Certification

Organizations worldwide depend on Systems and Organization Controls (SOC) 2 audits and reporting to provide assurance that their cybersecurity program and controls are effective. SOC 2 compliance audits utilize the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Trust Services Criteria to evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of an organization’s internal controls.

Our experts can support your entire journey so that your organization can obtain a formal SOC 2 audit from an AICPA-certified organization. With our SOC 2 Readiness Assessment and Advisory Services, we can help you:

Determine Your Scope of Control (In-Scope Environment)
Identify & Map to SOC 2 Control Objectives, Controls Supporting those Objectives, & Gaps in Supporting Controls
Assist with Control Implementation and Improvement Activities Necessary to Fulfill SOC 2 Audit Requirements

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Navigate and Address SOC 2 Requirements

The AICPA Trust Services Criteria is broader and less prescriptive than other, more cybersecurity-focused frameworks, providing you with maximum flexibility to define which governance, technical, physical, and process controls to implement, and to what extent, to fulfill the control objectives within the framework.

Our methodology will help you confirm that this framework is the most beneficial for your organization to utilize for SOC 2 certification and to:

Determine the scope of control, which includes the people, processes, technologies, locations, data, etc. that will be in scope and subject to the controls in question.
Perform a gap assessment against the projected scope of control to determine which supporting controls are already in place and identify which SOC 2 criteria will require new or enhanced controls.
Develop, resource and execute a gap remediation plan to successfully implement and/or enhance needed controls so that they are provably effective over time. Resourcing must include long-term capital and operational expenditures to ensure the long-term effectiveness and provability of the controls.
Operate the environment and in-scope controls over a period of time, generating the evidence required along the way proving that the controls have been continuously in place and effective.

Operational and Consultative Expertise to Ensure SOC 2 Readiness

Leverage our team’s operational and consultative experience to help you reach the certification level needed to conduct your business. A SOC 2 Gap Assessment engagement follows a standardized and proven methodology that provides you with:

Visibility of areas in need of supporting controls to prepare for a SOC 2 compliance audit
A comprehensive report that provides you with your current SOC 2 alignment status, as well as recommendations for implementing or improving controls needed to fulfill the Trust Services Criteria

Extend Your Team With SOC 2 Expertise

Our consultants can become on-demand extensions of your team to provide you with the necessary insights to move down that road faster and with greater confidence that you are headed in the right direction – toward a successful SOC 2 compliance audit.

Our SOC 2 Advisory Service provides consultation as needed to ensure your scoping strategies, control execution, technical solutions, and remediation activities meet the intent and rigor of the SOC 2 requirements.

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