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SOC 2 Compliance 101: All You Need to Know
What is SOC 2 Compliance? Achieving Service Organization Control (SOC) compliance helps companies reach satisfactory system-level controls based on the guidance of the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA). This standard helps to guarantee the security and privacy of the...
SOC Investments Lead to Improved Incident Response Times
Investing financial and training resources into protecting and bolstering your company's security operations center (SOC) will, first and foremost, go a long way toward safeguarding your digital assets from cyber-attacks. However, despite your best efforts, the...
How to Get a SOC Report for Microsoft Azure Hosted Environments
If you’re seeking a SOC report for Microsoft Azure-hosted environments, you’re not the only one. Many companies working with sensitive data understand that there is shared responsibility for data confidentiality, integrity, and accountability. Because Azure’s...
SOC 3 Report: All You Need to Know
What is a SOC 3? System and Organization Controls 3 reports, also known as a SOC 3 report, is one of three audits that organizations can undertake to meet the specified Trust Service Principles, as defined by the AICPA. The audit is performed by accredited...
How Long Does It Take to Get a SOC 2 Report
Data drives most of today’s cloud-based organizations. If your company is one of the many enterprises that transmits, stores, manages or otherwise handles data for your own use or as a service to customers, you have also established a system of security controls that...
SOC for Cybersecurity
Managing customer data and exchanging digital information on a global level provides your organization with both unparalleled flexibility and versatility. However, opening up your resources and assets to the outside world also makes your cyber environment vulnerable...
SOC 2 Trust Principles
News of cybercrime dominates the headlines regularly. For that reason, earning clients' trust is crucial for any organization that provides cloud-based data storage, management, or transmission services. The customers who entrust you with their precious data want more...
SOC 2 vs SOC 3
If your company is a service organization that offers cloud-based technologies and support services such as tax or medical claims processing, document management, data hosting, platform as a service, data as a service or other data security functions, you are already...
What is a Bridge Letter in SOC Report?
Internal and external stakeholders want assurance of your procedures and services ' robust nature, trustworthiness, and transparency when it comes to the storage, management, and transmission of sensitive financial information or other customer data. Demonstrating...
SOC 2 vs. ISO 27001: Key Differences
Any organization that is concerned with the storage, management or transmission of customer data is expected to adhere to security standards. Some of these standards make it possible for you to be in compliance with industry regulations; others provide you with a...