SOC 2

SOC 2 without the slog

Your AI vCISO assesses your gaps, writes your policies, and maps every piece of evidence to the criteria it satisfies. You walk into the audit with nothing missing.

What is SOC 2?

SOC 2 is an attestation framework created by the AICPA, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. An independent CPA firm examines how your company protects customer data and issues a report your customers can rely on. In practice, SOC 2 is the de facto trust requirement for selling software to other businesses in North America.

The framework is built on the Trust Services Criteria. Security is the mandatory category, organized into nine groups of common criteria covering everything from governance and risk to access control, change management, and incident response. Four more categories are optional and added when they match your commitments to customers: Availability, Confidentiality, Processing Integrity, and Privacy.

There are two report types. A Type 1 report looks at the design of your controls at a single point in time. A Type 2 report covers an observation window, usually three to twelve months, and tests whether your controls actually operated during that period. Most buyers ultimately want Type 2, and most companies get there by starting with Type 1.

Who needs SOC 2?

B2B SaaS closing bigger deals

Security questionnaires and procurement reviews stall without a report. SOC 2 is usually the first ask from a mid market or enterprise buyer.

Companies handling customer data

If customer data lives in your systems, your customers carry your risk. A SOC 2 report shows you take that seriously without a hundred ad hoc calls.

Startups raising or exiting

Diligence goes faster when your security program is documented, evidenced, and independently examined.

How vCISO.AI gets you to SOC 2

The same path an experienced vCISO would run, executed by AI with your approval.

1.

Scope and gap analysis

Onboarding maps your company, stack, and goals against all 61 criteria. You get an honest picture of where you stand and a phased roadmap.

2.

Policies, drafted and approved

The policy set is written in your context, mapped to the criteria each policy covers, and run through a real approval workflow.

3.

Evidence, mapped automatically

Upload artifacts and AI links them to every control they satisfy, with validity windows tracked for the Type 2 observation period.

4.

Audit, with nothing missing

Readiness scoring shows exactly what remains per criterion. When the auditor arrives, everything has a policy, an owner, and evidence.

Full Trust Services Criteria coverage

All 61 criteria are in the platform and cross mapped to ISO 27001, so the work counts twice.

CC1

Control environment

Governance, integrity, and accountability

CC2

Communication

Internal and external information flows

CC3

Risk assessment

Identifying and analyzing risk

CC4

Monitoring

Evaluating controls over time

CC5

Control activities

Policies and procedures that execute

CC6

Access controls

Logical and physical access

CC7

System operations

Detection, incidents, and recovery

CC8

Change management

Controlled changes to systems

CC9

Risk mitigation

Vendors and business disruption

A

Availability

Capacity, backup, and recovery

C

Confidentiality

Protecting confidential information

PI / P

Integrity and Privacy

Processing integrity and personal data

61

criteria, one control set

Every SOC 2 criterion maps to a control you can actually implement, and the same controls feed your ISO 27001 readiness at the same time.

Frequently asked questions

Quick answers about the product, frameworks, and getting started.

SOC 2 basics

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