SOC reports are commonly used to provide third-party attestation and promote trust with end clients. Preparing for a SOC attestation can be a significant undertaking - one Asureti is experienced in supporting. Our experience streamlines control identification, designs assessments, and ensures you are fully prepared for your third party attestation.
Why should you include a SOC readiness review in your SOC roadmap and plan?
- Organizations desire an “Unqualified” report – meaning there are no significant control issues impacting the overall attestation opinion.
- A readiness assessment significantly improves overall reporting, including the results for the public-facing and shareable report content.
- Your readiness provider can be a key advisor and partner working on an organization’s behalf throughout the process.
As your Readiness partner, Asureti will:
- Provide support in designing and implementing controls.
- Document management’s narrative and control summaries.
- Support management in confirming entity level controls and specified requirements such as risk oversight and vendor management.
- Work with the SOC 2 attestation provider to ensure consistency in approach, design and methodology.
The components of a SOC 2 readiness assessment include:
- Confirm in-scope criteria.
- Identify operational and system boundaries and document scope.
- Perform inquiry and documentation review to assess the suitability of design of controls.
- Identify gaps and areas for improvement.
- Map and document controls identified to meet requirements.
- Provide recommendations to management for additional controls, modifications, or maintenance of evidence of control operation.
- Document narrative structure and end-user controls for inclusion in required reporting structures.
Asureti can guide you through the SOC process. Ask us for a SOC Compliance Checklist today!
