How to Get a SOC Report for Microsoft Azure Hosted Environments
If you’re seeking a SOC report for Microsoft Azure-hosted environments, you’re not the only one. Many companies working with sensitive data understand that there is shared responsibility for data confidentiality, integrity, and accountability. Because Azure’s...
SOC 3 Report: All You Need to Know
What is a SOC 3? System and Organization Controls 3 reports, also known as a SOC 3 report, is one of three audits that organizations can undertake to meet the specified Trust Service Principles, as defined by the AICPA. The audit is performed by accredited...
How Long Does It Take to Get a SOC 2 Report
Data drives most of today’s cloud-based organizations. If your company is one of the many enterprises that transmits, stores, manages or otherwise handles data for your own use or as a service to customers, you have also established a system of security controls that...
SOC for Cybersecurity
Managing customer data and exchanging digital information on a global level provides your organization with both unparalleled flexibility and versatility. However, opening up your resources and assets to the outside world also makes your cyber environment vulnerable...
SOC 2 Trust Principles
News of cybercrime dominates the headlines regularly. For that reason, earning clients’ trust is crucial for any organization that provides cloud-based data storage, management, or transmission services. The customers who entrust you with their precious data...
SOC 2 vs SOC 3
If your company is a service organization that offers cloud-based technologies and support services such as tax or medical claims processing, document management, data hosting, platform as a service, data as a service or other data security functions, you are already...
SOC Bridge Letter: Closing the Gap with Customer Timelines
A SOC report’s covered period does not always coincide with your customers’ fiscal calendar. It might, for example, have an end date of October 31, which leads to a two-month gap with a customer’s fiscal year-end (December 31). To address this gap, organizations use a...
SOC 2 vs. ISO 27001: Key Differences
Any organization that is concerned with the storage, management or transmission of customer data is expected to adhere to security standards. Some of these standards make it possible for you to be in compliance with industry regulations; others provide you with a...
SOC 1 vs SOC 2
Service organizations like yours bear a heavy burden of trust when you handle, store or transmit data from customers who outsource it to you. It is no small task to ensure that this information is kept safe, and that is why you have developed strict internal security...
SOC 1 Audit Checklist
Third-party companies hired to transmit, hold or store the cardholder data of a business’s customers have a grave responsibility. In this age of viruses, ransomware, and data breaches, all service organizations must institute internal controls, policies, and...