by Assurion Services | Oct 5, 2026 | Compliance Readiness
There is exactly one hard requirement when you choose a SOC 2 auditor, and it is not a matter of preference: the examination has to be performed by a licensed CPA firm. SOC reports are attestation engagements performed under AICPA standards, and the opinion has to be...
by Assurion Services | Oct 5, 2026 | Compliance Readiness
Compliance automation platforms do a real job and do it well. They pull evidence out of your cloud accounts and identity provider on a schedule, they flag configuration drift, they give you a policy set to start from, and they map controls to the trust services...
by Assurion Services | Oct 5, 2026 | SOC 2
The honest summary of a second year SOC 2 is that the preparation gets much easier and the evidence gets harder. You already have a system description, a control matrix and a relationship with an auditor. What you do not have is the excuse that applied the first time...
by Assurion Services | Sep 2, 2026 | SOC 2
Somewhere in the middle of almost every SOC report there is a table that readers skim past on their way to the test results. It lists things the customer is expected to do. Those are complementary user entity controls, and they are the part of the report that quietly...
by Assurion Services | Sep 2, 2026 | SOC 2
Your SOC 2 Type 2 covers 1 January to 31 December. It is now March, a prospect is in a security review, and their vendor risk team wants to know what happened in the eleven weeks since the period ended. The usual answer is a bridge letter, and it will probably satisfy...
