SOC 2 Readiness Assessment
Comprehensive evaluation of your organization's readiness for SOC 2 compliance, examining your controls against the relevant Trust Services Criteria. Our assessment provides a detailed gap analysis and implementation roadmap to help you prepare for a successful SOC 2 audit.
In scope
- SOC 2 Type selection guidance
- Trust Services Criteria gap analysis
- Control documentation review
- Evidence collection process assessment
- Vendor management control review
- Change management process evaluation
- Risk assessment framework review
- Security monitoring evaluation
- Control testing preparation
- Auditor selection guidance
You receive
- SOC 2 readiness report
- Control gap analysis
- Documentation enhancement plan
- Evidence collection framework
- Remediation roadmap
- Control implementation guidance
- Vendor assessment recommendations
- Pre-audit preparation checklist
- Type 1 vs. Type 2 strategy
- Implementation timeline
Tiers
Choose the depth.
Entry — market-sized scope
$15.5K
Type I readiness check: Security criterion only, 1 in-scope product, up to 50 employees. Controls compared to the criteria through document review and up to 6 remote interviews. Output is a gap list and a pre-audit checklist.
- employees
- 50
- web apps
- 1
- months
- 1
- Security (Common Criteria) gap analysis
- Review of existing policies and control documentation
- Up to 6 remote interviews
- Gap list with owners and priorities
- Pre-audit preparation checklist
- — Additional criteria (Availability, Confidentiality, Processing Integrity, Privacy)
- — Type II evidence collection design
- — Remediation roadmap with timeline
- — Writing policies
Essential SOC 2 Gap Analysis
$35K
Up to 250 employees, up to 2 in-scope products and up to 3 Trust Services Criteria. Gap analysis, Type 1 vs Type 2 strategy, vendor, change management and risk assessment reviews, remediation roadmap with timeline and auditor selection guidance.
- employees
- 250
- web apps
- 2
- months
- 2
- Gap analysis for up to 3 Trust Services Criteria
- Type 1 vs Type 2 strategy
- Vendor, change management and risk assessment process reviews
- Remediation roadmap and implementation timeline
- Auditor selection guidance
- — Evidence collection framework build
- — Per-control implementation guidance
- — Writing policies and procedures
- — Support during the audit
Comprehensive SOC 2 Preparation
$60K
Complete readiness assessment with detailed control implementation guidance and evidence collection framework
- employees
- 500
- web apps
- 3
- — Writing the policy and procedure set
- — Hands-on control implementation
- — Liaison with the auditor during fieldwork
- — The CPA firm's audit fees
Enterprise SOC 2 Implementation Program
$95K
Full-service SOC 2 preparation including control implementation, documentation development, and audit support
- employees
- 1000
- web apps
- 5
- — The SOC 2 audit and report (issued by a CPA firm)
- — Compliance automation platform licences
- — Penetration testing
- — Organizations above 1,000 employees (scoped separately)
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What's inside this engagement
Phase by phase.
How a readiness & governance assessment engagement runs, what happens in each phase and what you see. Exact scope, tier and timeline are fixed in your proposal and SOW.
01Scoping & framework selection
The standard or regulation, the systems and the business units in scope are fixed.
You see · Your audit or regulatory driver.
02Evidence collection & interviews
Policies, configurations and records reviewed; control owners interviewed.
You see · Documents and time with control owners.
03Gap analysis
Each requirement mapped to current state: met, partial or missing, with the evidence behind it.
You see · A clear gap register.
04Roadmap & evidence plan
Prioritized remediation with owners, and the evidence an auditor will ask for.
You see · A plan you can execute or hand to us.
Commercials
From first call to final report.
- 01
Scoping call
A practitioner, not a salesperson, walks through targets, constraints and what a good outcome looks like for you.
- 02
Proposal & rules of engagement
A fixed-scope proposal with tier, price and deliverables. Rules of engagement, contacts and out-of-bounds systems are agreed in writing.
- 03
Sign, then start
MSA and SOW are signed electronically and the deposit is paid. Only then does testing begin.
- 04
Execution
Testing runs to the agreed plan. Critical findings are escalated as they are found; you don't wait for the report.
- 05
Report & debrief
An executive summary plus technical findings with evidence, reproduction steps and fixes, walked through with your team.
- 06
Retest
Where the tier includes it, we verify your fixes and reissue the report, so auditors and customers see the issues closed.
Timelines are set per engagement in the SOW.
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