Accelerate enterprise trust, satisfy vendor security questionnaires, and unblock high-value B2B SaaS contracts. ITAuditone delivers consultative, senior-led SOC 2 Type 1 and Type 2 readiness assessments and independent attestations aligned strictly with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Trust Services Criteria.
Use our interactive calculator below to determine your organization’s estimated audit preparation timeline, evidence volume, and resource requirements:
Select your organization profile to receive an estimated timeline and evidence scope:
A successful SOC 2 examination evaluates your internal control environment against five distinct Trust Services Criteria established by the AICPA. Depending on your business model and customer commitments, your audit scope can include one or all five criteria:
| Trust Services Category | Core Focus & Controls | When to Include in Your Audit |
|---|---|---|
| Security (Common Criteria) | Mandatory foundation. Network firewalls, multi-factor authentication (MFA), role-based access control (RBAC), vulnerability management, and intrusion detection. | Required for all SOC 2 reports. Evaluates whether systems are protected against unauthorized physical and logical access. |
| Availability | System uptime, disaster recovery, data backup restoration testing, failover redundancy, and incident response SLAs. | Crucial for infrastructure providers, hosting platforms, and mission-critical SaaS where downtime impacts client operations. |
| Confidentiality | Data classification, encryption at rest and in transit (TLS 1.3/AES-256), secure intellectual property handling, and non-disclosure governance. | Essential for B2B platforms handling proprietary trade secrets, enterprise contracts, or financial data. |
| Processing Integrity | Complete, valid, accurate, and timely transaction processing without operational errors or unmonitored data mutations. | Mandatory for FinTech platforms, payment gateways, automated billing systems, and data analytics engines. |
| Privacy | Personal Information (PII) collection, notice, user consent mechanisms, data subject rights (DSR), retention, and secure sanitization. | Recommended for B2C platforms, health-tech services, and enterprises subject to GDPR, CCPA, or Bill 64) Mandatory PIA Compliance">Quebec Law 25. |
Choosing between a Type 1 and Type 2 report dictates your audit timeline, evidence burden, and market credibility:
| Feature | SOC 2 Type 1 (Baseline Design) | SOC 2 Type 2 (Operational Effectiveness) |
|---|---|---|
| Audit Scope | Evaluates whether security controls are designed and implemented appropriately at a single point in time. | Evaluates whether security controls operated effectively over an extended observation period (typically 3, 6, or 12 months). |
| Primary Objective | Rapidly unblock immediate enterprise sales deals by proving foundational compliance hygiene. | Provides definitive proof of sustained operational rigor required by Fortune 500 CISOs and enterprise vendor review boards. |
| Timeline to Report | 4 to 8 weeks from gap closure. | Observation period (3 to 12 months) following initial control design sign-off. |
| Evidence Burden | Point-in-time configuration snapshots, current policy manuals, and single-instance control samples. | Continuous, sampled evidence across the observation window (e.g. quarterly access reviews, pull request approvals, automated patch logs). |
| Enterprise Perception | Accepted as an interim milestone by early-stage buyers. | The gold standard for enterprise procurement, institutional investors, and compliance officers. |
Unlike rigid firms that operate purely as detached checklist examiners, ITAuditone partners with your engineering and compliance teams to demystify every phase:
We analyze your cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP), organizational boundaries, data repositories, and customer SLAs to establish a defensible, right-sized audit scope that excludes non-critical systems.
Our senior CISA auditors conduct forensic reviews of your current policies, IAM configurations, CI/CD pipelines, and backup processes against AICPA Trust Services Criteria. We identify vulnerabilities and non-conformities before external examination.
We provide actionable, engineered remediation guidance: custom policy templates, infrastructure hardening checklists, and automated logging configurations negotiated directly with your engineers.
We stress-test your evidence collection across all control domains, ensuring 100% of required artifacts are formatted, sanitized, and ready for auditor inspection.
Execution of formal testing, control sampling, and management review, culminating in the issuance of an official, clean SOC 2 Type 1 or Type 2 attestation report.
Enterprise audits require empirical proof. Here is an overview of core artifacts we inspect and validate during your readiness assessment:
MFA enforcement logs, Principle of Least Privilege (PoLP) verification, quarterly user access reviews, and documented termination checklists (access revoked within 24 hours).
GitHub/GitLab branch protection rules, peer pull request approvals, automated static code analysis (SAST) passes, and separation of development from production environments.
Terraform/CloudFormation state files, AWS KMS/Azure Key Vault encryption at rest (AES-256), TLS 1.2/1.3 enforcement, and intrusion detection alerts.
Documented Business Impact Analysis (BIA), annual disaster recovery simulation logs, automated snapshot test restorations, and documented incident response tabletop exercises.