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 18, 2026 | SOC 2
Anyone who quotes you a SOC 2 audit cost before understanding your scope is guessing. The examination fee is a function of how much the auditor has to describe, test and document, and that varies enormously between a twelve-person API company running on one cloud...
by Assurion Services | Aug 17, 2026 | SOC 2
Nine times out of ten, the customer asking you for a SOC 2 wants a Type 2. If someone in a security review says “send us your SOC 2” without qualifying it, assume Type 2 and ask them to confirm. A Type 1 will sometimes buy you time or unblock a deal, but...