by Assurion Services | Oct 5, 2026 | SOC 1
The fastest way to settle the SOC 1 vs SOC 2 question is to look at who is asking. If the request came from a prospect’s security team, a vendor risk questionnaire, or a procurement portal, they want a SOC 2. If it came from your customer’s finance team,...
by Assurion Services | Oct 5, 2026 | ISO 27001
The short version: if your buyers are mostly in the United States, they will ask for a SOC 2. If they are in Europe, the Middle East, India, Japan or much of the rest of Asia-Pacific, ISO 27001 comes up far more often. If you sell into both, you will eventually be...
by Assurion Services | Oct 5, 2026 | ISO 27001
If you already hold ISO 27001 and someone has just asked for a SOC 2 — or the reverse — the honest answer is that most of the underlying security work carries across, and a meaningful slice of the paperwork does not. Teams that plan for both from the start typically...
by Assurion Services | Oct 5, 2026 | ISO 27001
ISO 27701 is worth doing when two things are true at once: you handle a meaningful volume of personal data on behalf of other organisations, and those organisations have started asking you privacy questions that your ISO 27001 certificate does not answer. If only one...
by Assurion Services | Oct 5, 2026 | SOC 2
A qualified opinion means the service auditor concluded that, except for one or more specific matters, the controls were suitably designed and operating effectively. The word “except” is the whole point — the auditor is naming something that is wrong and...
