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SOC Readiness as a Service

CISOSHARE’s SOC readiness services empower organizations to confidently prepare for and successfully navigate the SOC accreditation process with expert guidance from our experienced security team. We start by understanding the current state of your security program documentation and environment. From there, we measure this against best practices and requirements that will be assessed during the SOC audit process. Our team identifies gaps for remediation and establishes a system to address and implement the necessary changes before accreditation.

What is SOC?
and SOC Types

SOC (Service Organization Control) has 3 different of reports. SOC 2 and 3, commonly used for security, are measured against Trust Services Criteria. These criteria evaluate the suitability of process design and operating effectiveness of controls that are relevant to the security, availability, or processing integrity of information and systems. They also evaluate the confidentiality and privacy of information processed by systems at an entity, division, or operating unit.

 

What’s the difference between the SOC types and which does your organization need?

SOC 1

Evaluates internal controls over financial reporting

SOC 2

Evaluates internal controls and includes service auditor testing and results.

SOC 3

Provides only the system description and the auditor description

Types

Type 1

Provides only the system description and the auditor description

Type 2

This report occurs over a period of time, often 6 months, that addresses the fairness of the description of a system and the suitability of the design of its controls.

Planning for SOC 2 Accreditation Early

Simplify the SOC 2 process while maintaining an effective security program.

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Be Prepared for the SOC 2 Process

Having a SOC certification assures your clients, partners, and stakeholders about your data handling practices. The steps for accreditation are as follows:

Step 01 Initiation

  • Understand your goals
  • Assess your options
  • Set a budget (capital and operational)
  • Understand resource requirements
  • Set scope with integrity
  • Consider outsourcing to an expert team
  • Assign dedicated project manager
  • Build an efficient system
  • Carefully select an audit partner
  • Utilize the same project manager
  • Planning
  • Readiness
  • Re-accreditation

Securing Organizations of All Sizes

Major brands are now enforcing security standards on market research businesses of every size before partnering with them. With the assistance of CISOSHARE, we were able to quickly secure new business and solve a core business problem – proving we were able to secure our clients’ data. Beta Research is now leveraging the security program to help secure new and recurring business. Additionally, they helped us through the remediation tasks of a global client, something we would’ve struggled to complete by ourselves.

-- Amy Gorelkin

Chief Executive Officer, Beta Research Corp.

 

Word&Brown

We were trying to understand the best structure for establishing a security program that supported all the highly differentiated businesses within our corporate family. Their roadmap and accompanying work provided a foundation that helped us set priorities for the program in place today.

-- Jeff Hecht

Chief Compliance & Security Officer, The Word & Brown Companies

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Customers want to do business with SOC2 compliant vendors

Find out if one of the most sought after compliance goals makes business sense for your organization.

 

Benefits

A dedicated security team will help you through every step of the accreditation process.

Improve Visibility

  • Give stakeholders and clients visibility into the quality of different business controls for key parts of your business.

Understand Your Controls

  • SOC reports will help you assess and understand the design of your controls in handling sensitive data in different areas of your business.

Build Client Trust

  • Gather information andDemonstrate a dedication to your security and the quality of your business controls with SOC 2 reporting and certification. forensic evidence associated to determine and document the depth and extent of the incident.

Expert Guidance

  • Prepare for SOC 2 accreditation with an expert security team and gain insight on how to best meet your goals.

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