SOC 1 & SOC 2 Audit Readiness and Attestation Support
Enterprise buyers no longer accept a security questionnaire in place of an attestation report. Vyapari Solutions takes you from first gap assessment to a clean SOC 1 or SOC 2 Type II opinion, with a CPA firm performing the independent audit.
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What is a SOC report?
A System and Organization Controls (SOC) report is an independent attestation, issued by a licensed CPA firm, on the controls a service organisation operates on behalf of its customers. It is not a certificate you buy — it is an opinion earned through evidence.
SOC 1 covers controls relevant to your clients’ financial reporting (ICFR). It is the report your customer’s statutory auditor asks for when your platform processes payroll, claims, billing or fund accounting.
SOC 2 covers the five Trust Services Criteria: Security (mandatory), Availability, Processing Integrity, Confidentiality and Privacy. It is the report enterprise procurement and InfoSec teams ask for before signing a SaaS contract.
- Type I — design of controls at a point in time. Fastest route to a report you can show buyers.
- Type II — design and operating effectiveness over a window of 3 to 12 months. The report enterprises actually want.
- SOC 3 — a public, marketing-safe summary of a SOC 2 that you can publish on your website.
Key facts
| Framework | AICPA SSAE 18 / SSAE 21, Trust Services Criteria (TSC 2017, 2022 points of focus) |
|---|---|
| Report types | SOC 1 Type I & II, SOC 2 Type I & II, SOC 3 public summary |
| Typical readiness | 6–10 weeks |
| Observation window | 3–12 months for Type II |
| Best suited to | SaaS, fintech, BPO, payroll, data centres, managed service providers |
The five Trust Services Criteria we prepare you for
Security is mandatory in every SOC 2. The other four are selected based on the commitments you make to customers — we help you choose a scope that is defensible without being unnecessarily expensive.
Security (Common Criteria)
Access control, change management, risk assessment, vendor management, incident response and the nine COSO-aligned common criteria.
Availability
Capacity planning, monitoring, backup, disaster recovery and the uptime commitments in your SLAs.
Processing Integrity
Completeness, validity, accuracy and timeliness of processing — critical for payments, billing and data pipelines.
Confidentiality
Classification, encryption, retention and disposal of information designated confidential by contract.
Privacy
Notice, choice, collection, use, retention, disclosure and quality of personal information, aligned to Generally Accepted Privacy Principles.
Complementary controls
Subservice organisation carve-outs and complementary user entity controls, drafted so your customers know exactly what they own.
Who needs SOC 1 or SOC 2?
If your customers’ data, money or reporting passes through your systems, someone in their supply-chain risk team is going to ask for a SOC report. We most often work with:
- B2B SaaS and platform companies losing enterprise deals in the security review stage
- Payment processors, lending platforms and payroll providers subject to SOC 1 requests
- BPO, KPO and managed service providers handling client data or transactions
- Data centres, cloud hosting and DevOps managed-service vendors
- Healthcare and insurtech platforms combining SOC 2 with HIPAA obligations
Shorter sales cycles
Replace 200-question security questionnaires with a single report your buyer’s InfoSec team already trusts.
Reuse across frameworks
Around 70% of SOC 2 evidence also satisfies ISO 27001 — we test it once and map it to both.
Board-ready risk visibility
The risk register and control matrix become a genuine management tool, not an audit artefact.
Fewer real incidents
Continuous monitoring, logging and access reviews built during readiness measurably reduce incident frequency.
How the engagement runs
Scoping workshop
We define the system description, in-scope TSC, subservice organisations and the observation window that fits your sales calendar.
Gap assessment
Every common criterion is tested against your current state. You receive a prioritised remediation plan with owners and effort estimates.
Control design & remediation
Policies, access reviews, SDLC gates, vendor due diligence, logging and incident runbooks are implemented with your engineers.
Evidence automation
We configure evidence collection from your cloud, identity provider, ticketing and CI/CD so Type II sampling is painless.
Audit liaison
We introduce a licensed CPA firm, manage the PBC list, respond to auditor queries and drive findings to closure.
What you receive
- System description drafted to AICPA description criteria
- Trust Services control matrix mapped to your evidence sources
- Gap assessment report with prioritised remediation plan
- Information security policy suite and supporting procedures
- Risk assessment, vendor risk register and incident response runbooks
- Readiness (dry-run) audit report before the CPA engagement
- PBC evidence pack and auditor query management through report issue
SOC 1 & SOC 2 — frequently asked questions
No. SOC 2 results in an attestation report and an auditor’s opinion, not a certificate. Anyone advertising a "SOC 2 certificate" is describing something that does not exist. What you receive is a report you share under NDA, plus an optional SOC 3 summary you can publish freely.
If a specific deal is blocked, Type I gets you a shareable report in roughly 8 weeks and starts the Type II observation window immediately. If your timeline allows 6+ months, going directly to Type II saves one audit fee. We recommend based on your pipeline, not a fixed rule.
Three months is the accepted minimum for a first report, six is common, and twelve is standard once you are in an annual cycle. Enterprise buyers occasionally insist on a minimum of six months, so we confirm expectations with your largest prospects before locking the window.
No. Only a licensed CPA firm may issue a SOC report, and independence rules prevent your readiness partner from also being your auditor. We prepare you, run the dry-run audit and manage the CPA relationship — which is exactly why our clients pass on the first attempt.
Budget for two line items: readiness (Vyapari Solutions) and the CPA audit fee. For a 30–80 person SaaS company, readiness plus a Type II audit typically lands in a predictable mid-range band; we quote both as fixed fees after a scoping call so there are no surprises.
Only if your service affects your customers’ financial statements — payroll, claims adjudication, billing, fund administration. Many fintech clients need both, in which case we run a combined readiness project and share the control set across the two reports.
Still not sure what applies to you?
Ask an assessor directly — we answer scoping questions before anyone talks about a fee.
Get a realistic timeline and a fixed fee
A 30-minute call is usually enough to scope SOC 1 & SOC 2 accurately. You will leave with a timeline, an evidence checklist and a number — whether or not you engage us.