System and Organizational Control (SOC) Reporting Services
As your business grows, clearly demonstrating the security and reliability of your systems becomes essential.
Customers trust you with their data, SOC reports help you show you're effectively managing risks and protecting that trust. We work closely with you to understand your unique business needs, ensuring our audits aren't just about checking boxes—they’re about helping you build trust and strengthen relationships with your customers.
Security & Compliance
Ensure your customers that your systems meet appropriate regulatory and industry standards.
Independent Assurance
Provide customers and stakeholders with verified audit results.
Client Trust
Demonstrate your commitment to security and operational excellence.
Business Growth
Leverage SOC reporting to improve vendor relationships and partnerships.
Do your customers need greater confidence in your processes and technologies?
SOC Reporting and other attestation services:
- Offer valuable insights to strengthen your organization’s control environment.
- Provide clear, controls-based reporting to build trust with customers and stakeholders.
- Demonstrate the effectiveness of controls in securing systems and data, ensuring availability, confidentiality, processing integrity, and privacy.
Build Third-Party Confidence with SOC Reporting
System and Organization Controls (SOC) reports help build trust in your internal controls. They provide independent assurance that your systems are secure, reliable, and compliant with industry standards. SOC assessments enhance transparency, strengthen data protection, and increase stakeholder confidence in outsourced processes.
Preparing for a SOC examination can be complex. It's essetial to complete a readiness assessment. Our team helps assess your current controls, identify gaps, and implement the necessary improvements to ensure a smooth and successful SOC audit. Our readiness assessment includes:
- Define the system boundaries to be included in the engagement.
- Assist with the preparation of the system description to ensure clarity and completeness.
- Help determine control objectives and activities for SOC 1 reports.
- Identify control activities aligned with the Trust Services Criteria for SOC 2 reports.
- Evaluate existing controls to identify weaknesses or gaps.
- Provide remediation recommendations to strengthen internal controls before the SOC examination.
If your organization processes financial data or provides services that impact your clients' financial reporting, a SOC 1 report provides independent assurance of your Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (ICFR). This report is designed to instill confidence in your customers, auditors, and regulators by demonstrating that your controls are effectively designed and operating as intended to mitigate financial reporting risks.
A SOC 1 report is particularly relevant for service organizations that manage financial transactions, payroll processing, loan servicing, or any function impacting a client’s financial reporting. It provides user organizations and their auditors with transparency into your internal controls, helping them evaluate their own risk and compliance efforts.
In a SOC 1 examination, management asserts that certain controls are in place to meet specified control objectives, and a CPA firm independently tests these controls to issue an opinion on their effectiveness. Unlike SOC 2, which follows predefined Trust Services Criteria, SOC 1 reports are customized to the service organization’s specific control objectives.
By obtaining a SOC 1 report, your organization demonstrates operational integrity, builds stakeholder trust, and meets compliance expectations for financial reporting-related services.
For organizations handling sensitive customer data, a SOC 2 report is often required to demonstrate robust security, compliance, and risk management. This report provides assurance to customers, investors, and other stakeholders that your internal controls effectively safeguard information and meet industry standards.
SOC 2 engagements are conducted under the AICPA’s SSAE No. 18 standards and assess controls based on the Trust Services Criteria (TSC), which include security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy. These criteria help evaluate whether your systems are secure, reliable, and compliant with regulatory expectations.
Unlike SOC 1, which focuses on financial reporting, SOC 2 is tailored to a wide range of service organizations that manage sensitive data, including cloud providers, SaaS companies, and IT service firms. Organizations also have the option to include additional subject matter related to their services, such as HIPAA, ISO 27001, NIST 800-53, HITRUST, and COBIT.
Each SOC 2 report includes:
- A detailed review of your internal controls related to the selected Trust Services Criteria.
- An independent CPA firm’s opinion on the effectiveness of these controls.
- Optional coverage of additional compliance frameworks to align with industry-specific requirements.
By obtaining a SOC 2 report, your organization enhances credibility, strengthens customer trust, and ensures compliance with evolving security and data protection standards.
In some cases, organizations require independent verification of specific processes, transactions, or controls without the need for a full audit or attestation report. Agreed-Upon Procedures (AUP) engagements, performed under the AICPA’s AT-C Sections 215 and compliance based under AT-C 315, provide a flexible, customized approach to meeting these needs.
An AUP report provides findings based on procedures agreed upon by the client and stakeholders. Unlike audits, AUP engagements do not provide an opinion or assurance but instead offer detailed, objective reporting that allows decision-makers to evaluate specific areas of concern.
AUP engagements are commonly used for:
- Regulatory compliance verification
- Financial statement or internal control testing
- Due diligence procedures for mergers and acquisitions
- Grant compliance and funding use verification
- Third-party contract compliance reviews
By engaging in an AUP examination, organizations gain independent, fact-based insights tailored to their specific needs. This type of reporting is especially valuable for organizations needing transparency and accountability without requiring a full audit.