The SOC 2 framework is essential for service organizations that store, process, or transmit customer data, providing assurance to stakeholders about the effectiveness of internal controls.
This comprehensive compliance checklist
supports your journey toward SOC 2
compliance, ensuring your organization’s security practices meet rigorous auditing standards while building trust through demonstrated commitment to data protection and operational excellence. Download the checklist to support your certification.
Preliminary steps for SOC 2 compliance
Understand the requirements and framework
☐ Familiarize with the five Trust Services Criteria (TSC):
- Security (mandatory): Protection against unauthorized access, both physical and logical
- Availability: System and service accessibility for operation and use as committed or agreed
- Processing integrity: System processing completeness, validity, accuracy, timeliness, and authorization
- Confidentiality: Protection of information designated as confidential
- Privacy: Collection, use, retention, disclosure, and disposal of personal information according to commitments
☐ Understand audit types:
- SOC 2 Type 1: Reports on the design of controls at a specific point in time
- SOC 2 Type 2: Design and operating effectiveness of controls over a minimum 3-month period
☐ Identify business drivers:
- Customer contractual requirements and expectations
- Regulatory compliance obligations (GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA)
- Competitive advantage and market differentiation
- Risk management and operational improvement objectives
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