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 | Sep 2, 2026 | Compliance Readiness
The single biggest driver of a painful SOC 2 fieldwork is not the number of controls. It is whether the evidence already exists in a form the auditor can use, or whether your team has to go and manufacture it after the period has closed. Reconstructed SOC 2 evidence...
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...
