SOC 2
What is SOC 2?
Trust Service Criteria for service organizations covering security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy. It comprises 61 controls organised across 5 domains, published by AICPA, and applies in the United States.
How SOC 2 maps to other frameworks
All 61 controls, each one mapped to the equivalent requirement in other standards, with the evidence that carries across and the mappings that were judged and rejected shown alongside. No account needed to look.
See the control mappings →The 5 domains SOC 2 groups its controls into
Frameworks that share controls with SOC 2
Each of these has at least one control mapped to a control in SOC 2. The number is how many SOC 2 controls are shared, counted from the mapping graph.
Where SOC 2 overlaps with the standards you already hold
Implementation guides for frameworks that overlap SOC 2
Step-by-step implementation of SOC 2
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Analysis of SOC 2
Training that covers SOC 2
Where to get trained on SOC 2
4 courses in the catalogue cover SOC 2 directly. Each is self-paced, includes the downloadable toolkit and the implementation playbook, and carries a certificate of completion.
Training more than one person? Ten seats of any course is $1,490 on a single licence, against $199 a seat bought one at a time.
Policy templates that implement SOC 2
5 policy templates in the library map to SOC 2. Each is a working document you can download, edit and adopt, not a summary of what a policy should contain. Creating a free account opens the download.
What an auditor will ask you for
All 61 SOC 2 controls, each with what it requires, the artefacts an auditor will ask you for, and where it commonly fails. Free to read, nothing to fill in.
Read the SOC 2 evidence request listWhat SOC 2 means in your sector
What SOC 2 means for your job
Questions people ask about SOC 2
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Query SOC 2 programmatically
SOC 2, its 61 controls and every mapping into other standards are available over a REST endpoint and an MCP server, so an agent can read them directly. The free tier is 10 calls a day and needs no signup.
SOC 2 API reference and MCP config →What SOC 2 requires, control by control
Each page carries the requirement text for one SOC 2 control and what an assessor expects to see as evidence.
- A1-1 Maintains capacity to meet availability commitments
- A1-2 Environmental protections, data backups, and recovery infrastructure support availability
- A1-3 Recovery plan procedures support system recovery from failures
- C1-1 Confidential information is identified and protected during receipt, processing, storage
- C1-2 Confidential information is disposed of securely
- CC1-2 COSO principle 2: Board exercises oversight responsibility
- CC1-3 COSO principle 3: Management establishes structures, reporting lines, and authorities
- CC1-4 COSO principle 4: Demonstrates commitment to attract and retain competent individuals
- CC1-5 COSO principle 5: Holds individuals accountable for internal control responsibilities
- CC2-1 COSO principle 13: Obtains and generates relevant, quality information
How much of another standard SOC 2 already covers
Each crosswalk is judged control by control, and the mappings that were rejected are kept alongside the ones that held.
- ACSC Essential Eight to SOC 2 crosswalk
- ANSSI Guide d'hygiene informatique (42 mesures, v2.0) to SOC 2 crosswalk
- APEC Cross-Border Privacy Rules (CBPR) System to SOC 2 crosswalk
- APPI to SOC 2 crosswalk
- APRA CPS 220 Risk Management to SOC 2 crosswalk
- APRA CPS 230 Operational Risk Management to SOC 2 crosswalk
- APRA CPS 234 to SOC 2 crosswalk
- ASD Strategies to Mitigate Cyber Security Incidents to SOC 2 crosswalk
How ready are you for SOC 2?
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