Service Organization Control (SOC) compliance is a voluntary compliance framework created by the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) to help financial institutions better manage security, risk and data management. Over time, several different audits and reports based on SOC have emerged, the most popular of which is SOC 2. The SOC 2 audit process is… Read More
Understanding the structure of a SOC 2 report is essential for both businesses and service providers who are thinking ahead to their audit and attestation. It will serve as the “story” of an organization’s SOC 2 journey, covering the evaluation of their adherence to the Trust Services Criteria (TSC)–security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy. … Read More
What is a SOC 2 Report? Introduced in 2011, Service Organization Control (SOC) reports are becoming more and more popular in data security and compliance discussions with every passing year, especially SOC 2. But what is a SOC report? Which one do you need? Why is a SOC 2 report so important? There are three… Read More