by Assurion Services | Aug 24, 2026 | Compliance Readiness
If you are starting from nothing and your buyer wants a Type 2, plan on somewhere between six months and a year from the day you start to the day you hand over a report. If they will accept a Type 1, you can often get there in two to four months. Those ranges are wide...
by Assurion Services | Aug 24, 2026 | Compliance Readiness
A SOC 2 readiness assessment is a structured comparison between the trust services criteria that apply to you and what your organization actually does today. The deliverable is a gap list: here are the criteria, here is what you have, here is what is missing, here is...
by Assurion Services | Aug 24, 2026 | SOC 2
For a first SOC 2 Type 2, three months is the usual answer when a deal is waiting and six months is the usual answer when it is not. After that, almost everyone settles into twelve-month periods that repeat annually. Choosing your SOC 2 observation window is really a...
by Assurion Services | Aug 24, 2026 | SOC 2
Every SOC 2 includes the Security criteria. The other four — Availability, Confidentiality, Processing Integrity and Privacy — are optional, and you choose them. The right way to choose is to look at what you have promised customers in writing, not at what sounds...
by Assurion Services | Aug 19, 2026 | SOC 2
A SOC 2 report is a long document with a small number of load-bearing parts. If you have twenty minutes and a vendor’s report in front of you, read the opinion paragraph, the period or date it covers, the scope statement in the system description, and every...
