Security Consulting & Compliance
SOC 2 Compliance
Readiness and control design across Security, Availability and Confidentiality.
Every engagement includes manual validation, a two audience report and free re-testing.
Get a scoped quote+91 96682 00222What this actually is
SOC 2 exists because your enterprise customers cannot audit every vendor themselves, so they ask an independent accountant to do it once and share the report. That is why it is written the way it is: an auditor has to be able to test each control and see evidence that it operated.
Type 1 says the controls were designed properly on a given day. Type 2 says they actually ran over a period, usually six to twelve months. Type 2 is what buyers really want, and it means you need your evidence trail running before the observation window starts, not after.
We get you ready, run a readiness assessment under audit conditions, and sit with you through the audit itself. We do not issue the report, no consultant legitimately can, but we make sure nothing in it surprises you.
What we go after
- Trust Services Criteria selection and scoping
- Control design across security, availability and confidentiality
- Access management, change management and incident processes
- Vendor management and subservice organisation mapping
- Evidence collection automation so the trail is continuous
- Readiness assessment under audit conditions
- Auditor liaison through fieldwork
How we run it
- 01
Gap assessment
We measure you against the standard as it is actually audited, not as it reads on paper.
- 02
Remediation plan
Every gap gets an owner, an effort estimate and a date. You decide what lands this quarter.
- 03
Implement and evidence
We write the policy, build the control and collect the artefact that proves it is working.
- 04
Internal audit
A dry run under audit conditions, so nothing in the real one is a surprise.
- 05
Certify and maintain
We sit on your side of the table for the audit, then keep the evidence current between cycles.
What you receive
- Gap assessment against the criteria your buyers ask for
- Control matrix with owners and evidence sources
- Policy and procedure set
- Readiness report before the auditor arrives
- Support through fieldwork and the management response
Who needs this
SaaS and technology companies selling into North American enterprises, and any service provider whose customers pass their own audit obligations down the chain.
How long it takes
Two to four months to readiness, then a six to twelve month observation window for Type 2.
Standards this satisfies
- SOC 2 Type 1
- SOC 2 Type 2
- ISO 27001
- AICPA TSC
Why it matters
Almost nobody starts a certification because they want one. It starts because a customer will not sign without it, a regulator has asked, or a deal is sitting still while procurement waits for evidence. The commercial driver is real and it is worth being honest that it, rather than security, is usually what pays for the programme.
The security benefit is real too, but it comes from a specific place: the discipline of having to evidence that a control operated over a period, rather than that it was configured once. That is the part that changes behaviour, and it is also the part organisations consistently underestimate.
Choose how you want this delivered
Most of the price difference between quotes comes down to this one choice, and it is rarely explained. Pick one to see what it covers, what it suits and what it costs you.
Gap assessment, then we work alongside your team through remediation, internal audit and the certification audit itself. Your people do the work and own the outcome, which is what makes the management system survive after we leave. This is what most organisations should choose.
Choose this when
- You have a team who can absorb the work alongside their day job
- You want the capability to remain in-house afterwards
- First certification where documentation is the main gap
Effort and cost
Moderate. The calendar is longer than a managed programme because the work competes with everyone's existing responsibilities.
Scope it yourself, before you call anyone
Answer a few questions and you get an indicative number, the working behind it and what your answers tell us. It runs in your browser, so nothing you type reaches us.
Which framework are you going for?
What we look for, and keep finding
These are the classes of problem this work exists to surface. Not every engagement finds all of them, but these are the ones that turn up often enough to be worth naming.
Controls that exist on paper only
The policy says quarterly access reviews. The evidence shows one, eighteen months ago, and it was not completed. This is the single most common audit finding across every framework.
Scope drawn too narrowly
A certificate covering a subset of the business that customers assume covers all of it. Auditors check the boundary; buyers rarely do. Getting scope right is the most consequential early decision.
Evidence that cannot be reproduced
A screenshot proves a control was configured on the day someone took it. A framework wants proof it operated throughout the period. Those are very different, and the gap only appears at the audit.
Exceptions with no expiry
Risk accepted once, recorded, and never revisited. Over a few years these accumulate into an undocumented second control framework nobody is managing.
Third parties outside the boundary
Processing carried out by a supplier who was assessed at onboarding and never since, while your obligation for their handling of your data continues regardless.
Who runs your engagement
A lead assessor who has sat on the other side of the table
Compliance work is led by an assessor who has taken organisations through certification, not by a consultant reading the standard for the first time with you. They know which findings a certification body will actually raise, which is a different list from what the standard technically says.
Questions we get asked
Should we do Type 1 or Type 2 first?
If a deal is blocked right now, Type 1 buys you time and shows intent. If you have runway, go straight to Type 2, because most buyers eventually ask for it anyway and you will have done the work twice otherwise.
We already have ISO 27001. Does that count?
It covers a lot of the same ground and makes SOC 2 much faster, but they are different reports for different audiences. If your buyers are American they will usually want SOC 2 specifically.
Often scoped alongside
- CERT-In Cyber Security AuditCERT-In empanelled audit and certification for government and regulated entities.Read more
- ISO 27001 Audit & CertificationISMS design, implementation, internal audit and certification support end to end.Read more
- ISO 27017 Compliance AuditCloud-specific security controls for providers and customers.Read more
- ISO 27018 Compliance AuditProtection of personally identifiable information in public clouds.Read more
Ready to scope your soc 2 compliance?
Thirty minutes with a senior engineer, and you leave with a written scope and indicative effort.