SOC 2 Certification
SOC 2 reports that close enterprise deals.
SOC 2 is the report North American enterprise buyers demand before they trust you with their data. Built on the AICPA Trust Services Criteria — security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy — RESTIV takes you from readiness to a clean SOC 2 Type II, with controls and evidence that stay continuously audit-ready between examination periods.
- AICPA Trust Services Criteria — all five categories
- SOC 2 Type I and Type II readiness
- Evidence continuously collected across the audit period
- Security questionnaires answered automatically
What a clean SOC 2 takes.
A SOC 2 is only as good as the evidence behind it. We operate the controls and collect the evidence continuously, so the examination confirms what is already true.
Scope & criteria selection
Choose the Trust Services Criteria that match what your buyers actually require — security is mandatory; availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy are added where they matter — and define the system boundary.
Control implementation
Stand up and operate the controls that satisfy the selected criteria, mapped to the common criteria so nothing is left to interpretation at examination time.
Continuous evidence collection
Type II tests operating effectiveness over a period. We collect evidence continuously across that window so there is no end-of-period scramble and no gaps in the record.
Audit liaison & questionnaires
We manage the relationship with the CPA firm and auto-answer the security questionnaires your SOC 2 is meant to satisfy — turning days of back-and-forth into hours.
Your path to SOC 2 Type II.
From scope to signed report — with the observation window run as a continuous evidence stream, not a last-minute collection exercise.
Scope
Select criteria & system boundary
Decide which Trust Services Criteria apply and define the system in scope. The right scope keeps the examination focused on what your buyers actually ask about.
Readiness
Gap assessment & remediation
Assess the current control environment against the selected criteria, document gaps, and remediate — the readiness work that prevents exceptions in the final report.
Implement
Operate controls & start evidence
Operate the controls and begin continuous evidence collection. Every control has an owner and a live evidence source rather than a once-a-year document.
Observation window
Type II operating period
Type II requires controls to operate over a period — typically three to twelve months. Evidence accrues continuously, so the record is complete the day the examination begins.
Examination
CPA firm report
An independent CPA firm performs the SOC 2 examination and issues the report. We keep the programme running so the next period’s report is already on track.
The buyer-trust report, by the numbers
5
Trust Services Criteria categories
Type II
Continuous operating-effectiveness report
147
Compliance frameworks RESTIV supports
The report that unblocks the enterprise sale.
A SOC 2 readiness call is a private working session with the RESTIV team — the criteria your buyers require, your gaps against them, and the fastest credible path to a clean Type II report.