SOC
SOC 1 and SOC 2 Readiness Consultancy
Produces the independent assurance report enterprise buyers request during vendor review.
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- US Buyer Expectation
- Auditor Questions Deflected
- Trust Written Down
- Renewals Argued Less
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- Practice area
- Cyber Security
- Industries
- 4
- Delivery
- Onsite, remote, hybrid
Why expert advice is worth having
Organisations rarely fail SOC because the standard is hard. They fail because the evidence does not match what the auditor asks for.
The standard says what, never how
SOC is written to apply to every organisation on earth, which is exactly why it never tells you what to do in yours. Turning a clause into your process, on your sites, with your people, is the actual work.
Experience across sectors
Having implemented SOC in very different operating environments, we can tell you quickly which of your worries are real and which are inherited from someone else's situation.
Integration saves real money
If SOC sits alongside other standards you hold, running them as one system means one document set and one audit rather than paying for the same work several times over.
A date you can actually commit to
Knowing which parts of SOC can be compressed and which cannot is the difference between meeting a tender deadline and explaining why you missed it.
Prefer to just ask someone about SOC rather than fill in a form?
What SOC is worth to you
Certification is a commercial decision before it is a technical one. This is where the return usually shows up.
US Buyer Expectation
American procurement and risk teams routinely request a report and treat its absence as reason enough to shortlist somebody else.
Auditor Questions Deflected
A clean report answers your client's own auditors directly, sparing your team repeated evidence requests throughout their financial year.
Trust Written Down
An independent attestation describes your controls in language that finance committees and risk officers already understand and accept.
Renewals Argued Less
Existing clients renew with far less negotiation when annual reporting shows controls operated all year, not just at sign up.
Industries where SOC applies
Open a sector to see every standard it is usually asked for.
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Look at how it is structured before you commit
The quickest way to judge a consultant is to look at their paperwork. In a demo we open our SOC document set and show you the hierarchy: what sits in the manual, what drops into procedures, what becomes a form, and how each one traces back to a clause the auditor will ask about.
SOC in detail
What SOC is usually taken with
Few organisations stop at one standard, and the second costs far less than the first — the clauses that take longest are the ones they share. Where SOC sits next to something else, this is what carries over.
- ISO/IEC 27001 consultancy — shares clauses 4 to 10 with this standard, so context, leadership, competence, internal audit and management review are built once and audited together.
- NIST consultancy — shares clauses 4 to 10 with this standard, so context, leadership, competence, internal audit and management review are built once and audited together.
- PCI DSS consultancy — shares clauses 4 to 10 with this standard, so context, leadership, competence, internal audit and management review are built once and audited together.
Certified to more than one, you hold a single management system with one set of objectives, one internal audit programme and one management review — audited in one visit. Run as separate systems they cost roughly twice as much to keep, which is the usual reason a second certificate feels harder than it was.
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Score your SOC readiness out of 100
Answer the questions an auditor would ask and see where you stand before anybody quotes you a price.
The route to your SOC certificate
- 1Gap analysis
- 2Documentation
- 3Training
- 4Implementation
- 5Internal audits
- 6Closure of gaps
- 7Management review
- 8Certification audit
- 9Surveillance audits
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SOC questions we are asked most
What does SOC actually require from us?
You will need a defined scope, documentation that reflects actual practice rather than intent, evidence the system has been operating for a reasonable period, trained staff, and at least one internal audit and management review on file.
What is a realistic timeline for SOC?
Most SOC projects run three months or so. The single biggest variable is not the standard, it is how fast your team can be freed up for training and internal audit alongside their normal work.
Do you issue the SOC certificate yourselves?
No, and no consultant should. The certificate comes from an independent accredited certification body after their own audit. We prepare you to pass it and we are there on the day to close findings. That separation is exactly what makes the certificate worth holding.
What does SOC consultancy cost?
It depends on your headcount, how many sites are in scope and how much of a system already exists, so we quote after a short conversation rather than publishing a figure that would be wrong for most readers. Scope, timeline and fees come to you in writing first.
Which industries need SOC?
We map SOC to 4 sectors and it sits in our cyber security practice. Organisations usually arrive because a specific buyer, regulator or tender committee has asked. Tell us who is asking and we will confirm whether this is the standard that satisfies them.
Do you have to visit our premises?
Remote delivery covers most of a SOC project comfortably. We recommend onsite presence for the initial assessment and for the certification audit, where being in the room genuinely changes the outcome.
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