SOC Compliance Consulting Services

SOC 1 covers internal controls over financial reporting and is the right report for service organizations whose operations directly affect the financial statements their clients produce, such as payroll processors and loan servicers. SOC 2 is the report most technology and SaaS companies need: it evaluates security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy controls against the AICPA Trust Services Criteria. SOC 3 is a publicly shareable condensed version of the SOC 2 opinion that can be posted on your website or included in marketing collateral without requiring a confidentiality agreement.

A Type I report is a point-in-time opinion: the CPA firm evaluates whether your controls were suitably designed at a specific date but does not test whether they operated in practice. A Type II report covers an observation window, typically six to twelve months, during which the auditor tests whether each control operated effectively throughout the period. Most enterprise procurement teams and cloud marketplace programs require a Type II because it demonstrates sustained control operation rather than a design snapshot.

The Trust Services Criteria are the AICPA's control framework for SOC 2 engagements, organized into five categories. Security is the only mandatory category and covers logical and physical access controls, change management, risk assessment, monitoring, and incident response. The remaining four categories are optional: availability addresses uptime and performance commitments, processing integrity covers accuracy and completeness of processing, confidentiality addresses how non-public information is protected, and privacy covers how personal data is collected, used, retained, and disposed of. Most organizations include Security at minimum and add the categories that match their service commitments to clients.

A first SOC 2 Type II engagement typically takes nine to fourteen months from readiness assessment to final report issuance. The readiness and remediation phase usually runs two to three months depending on how many gaps are identified. The Type II observation window is a minimum of six months, during which controls must operate continuously. CPA fieldwork and report drafting then add another six to ten weeks. Organizations that already have ISO 27001 or a mature security program can often compress the remediation phase and reach the final report closer to the nine-month mark. After our readiness assessment we give you a milestone schedule specific to your environment rather than a generic estimate.

SOC reports must be issued by a licensed CPA firm. Webority's role is to prepare your organization for the audit, not to perform it. We carry out the readiness assessment, design and implement the controls, collect the evidence across the observation period, and manage the day-to-day relationship with the CPA firm during fieldwork. Keeping the advisory and audit functions separate is an AICPA requirement: it ensures the attestation carries full independence and is accepted without question by your clients and their own auditors.