SOC READINESS ASSESSMENTS & READINESS

System and Organization Control (SOC) Readiness Audit

CyberSecOp’s comprehensive System and Organization Controls (SOC) assessments and SOC compliance program enable you to achieve and maintain SOC compliance, providing assurance to your business partners and clients. CyberSecOp SOC readiness review is the most efficient way to prepare for your formal SOC attestation engagement.

Your customers will earn your trust with SOC 2 compliance, SOC 2 compliance provide assurance of adequate controls to protect customer data. Most large customers require you to be SOC 2 compliant. CyberSecOp SOC readiness assessment will help you identify gaps in controls and provide advice on how to close them. After gaining a greater understanding of your operations and processes, we'll determine the appropriate control objectives and remedational path.

SOC Compliance Audit & Reporting Services

Your customers and partners want to know that you are going to protect their data, and they want to see that validated by an independent organization. A SOC 2 report provides that trust, allowing you to get the edge over your competitors, close deals faster, and win more business.

Achieving a SOC certification

Step 1: Bring in CyberSecOp Security Team

Initial Scoping: During this part of the assessment, the systems, applications and processes that will be considered in-scope for the assessment are defined.

Step 2: Select SOC Security Criteria for Auditing

Control Evaluation: The next step is to walk through the policies and processes currently in place to identify the corresponding control points.

Step 3: Building a Roadmap to SOC 2 Compliance

Gap Identification and Deliverables: At this point, the control gaps that need to be closed in order to meet the SOC reporting requirements can be identified.

Step 4: Implement Roadmap to SOC 2 Compliance

Remediation: At this point, your organization can take action to close any gaps. It is important to evaluate how long it will take to complete remediation.

Step 5: The Formal SOC Audit

SOC 2 audit report includes: Management assertion; A detailed description of the system or service; Details of the selected trust services categories; Tests of controls and the results of testing; and Optional additional information.

Step 6: SOC Certification and RE-CERTIFICATION.

Four separate SOC engagements we can perform:

• SOC for Cybersecurity is applicable to all entities and involves an examination of an entity's cybersecurity risk management program and related controls.

• SOC 1 is for service organizations and is an examination of controls related to financial reporting. Report distribution is restricted.

• SOC 2 is for service organizations and is an examination of controls relevant to security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy. Report distribution is restricted.

• SOC 3 is for service organizations and results in an abbreviated report for general use.

SOC Readiness Assessments & Readiness Program

SOC assessments assist organizations in making educated security decisions. Understanding one’s risk will help prevent arbitrary action. The entire process is designed to help IT departments find and evaluate risk while aligning with business objectives.

• Identify asset vulnerabilities

• Gather threat and vulnerability information

• Identify internal and external threats

• Gap Assessment

Service Organization Control (SOC) Program

After the risks and vulnerabilities have been identified, defensive responses can be considered.

• SOC 2 program, implement SOC criteria into a well-structured plan and breaks down the key milestones

• Quickly collect evidence to document your efforts toward SOC 2 compliance

• Frictionless collaboration between compliance teams and their auditor

• Reuse evidence across multiple frameworks and controls

• Assign controls to program participants and keep team members on track

• Dashboards to gauge progress and audit preparedness posture

What is SOC 2?

SOC, which stands for System and Organizational Controls, is a framework developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) for the purpose of providing regular, independent attestation of the controls that a company has implemented to mitigate information-related risk. There are actually three types of SOC audits: SOC 1, SOC 2, and SOC 3. When it comes to cybersecurity, SOC 2 has become the de facto standard. In a SOC 2 audit, you describe the policies, procedures, and systems you have in place to protect information across five categories called Trust Services Criteria. Your independent auditor evaluates the evidence you supply for the controls in each category, and when completed you receive your official SOC 2 report that you can share with customers and business partners to assure them that their data will be handled securely.

Types of SOC READINESS ASSESSMENT and COMPLIANCE Program

Outcomes of a SOC assessment include not only documentation of your risk posture, but also specific real-world guidance that is both actionable and measurable by leveraging industry-recognized standards. We will work closely with your team to develop a process that is both simple and repeatable, resulting in more consistency and a way to track your progress.