Gap analysis against Trust Services Criteria before your auditor finds the gaps. Audit-ready evidence packages delivered fast, priced for real budgets.
Our assessors hold the certifications your auditors and assessors recognize — OSCP, CEH, and CREST. No junior analysts running checklists.
You get a fixed price before we start. No hourly billing, no scope creep surprises, no invoice that looks nothing like the quote.
Most assessments are delivered in five to ten business days from kickoff. Built for real audit deadlines, not enterprise consulting timelines.
Reports are structured so your auditor, QSA, C3PAO, or certification body can evaluate evidence directly. No translation layer required.
A SOC 2 readiness assessment is a structured gap analysis that compares your current security controls against the AICPA Trust Services Criteria. It tells you exactly which controls you have, which ones are missing, and what your auditor is going to flag — before they flag it. Think of it as a dress rehearsal for the real audit, without the consequences of failing.
Most companies going into their first SOC 2 audit are surprised by how many gaps show up. Not because their security is bad, but because the evidence documentation is incomplete. Your controls might be working fine in practice. They just aren’t documented in a way that satisfies a CPA firm. That’s the difference between a clean opinion and a qualified one.
Type I is a point-in-time assessment. Your auditor reviews whether your controls were designed correctly as of a specific date. It is the faster path to your first report and works well when you need to clear an enterprise security questionnaire quickly.
Type II covers an observation period of three to twelve months and evaluates whether those controls actually operated as designed across that window. Enterprise buyers and serious procurement teams require it. Our readiness assessment covers both and tells you upfront which one fits your timeline and your deal pressure.
If you are still deciding, our breakdown of the difference between SOC 2 Type I and Type II walks through the cost, timeline, and buyer-expectation trade-offs in detail.
All five Trust Services Criteria matter — Security, Availability, Confidentiality, Processing Integrity, and Privacy — but Security is the only one that is mandatory, and within it a handful of common criteria account for most first-audit findings:
CC7.1 is where penetration testing evidence typically enters the picture. Our guide to SOC 2 penetration testing requirements covers what auditors accept as evidence and what they reject.
For a Type I, most organizations move from readiness assessment to audit report in two to four months, depending on how much remediation the gap analysis surfaces. A Type II adds the observation period on top of that, so a realistic first-Type-II timeline is six to twelve months from where most companies start.
The single biggest source of slippage is remediation work discovered late. That is the argument for running readiness early rather than after you have already signed with an auditor. Our SOC 2 audit timeline breakdown maps each phase week by week so you can plan against a real calendar.
Traditional readiness consultancies charge $20,000 to $50,000 and take months to start. Audit fees are separate and typically run $10,000 to $60,000 depending on scope and firm. Penetration testing is another line item, and traditional firms routinely quote $15,000 to $25,000 for it.
We scope readiness work to fit real budgets and start within days. For a full breakdown of every line item — readiness, audit, pentest, tooling, and internal time — see our SOC 2 compliance cost guide.
Stop guessing and start preparing. Get your SOC 2 readiness assessment quote and know exactly where you stand before your auditor does.
Tell us your framework, environment size, and audit deadline. Takes two minutes. No account required, no sales call triggered.
We review your submission and send a fixed-price quote with scope, timeline, and what you’ll receive — usually within one business day.
Once you approve, we kick off immediately. Gap report, remediation roadmap, and evidence package delivered in 5 to 10 business days.
No sales calls. Same-day response.
SOC 2 does not name penetration testing as a required control. CC7.1 requires evidence of vulnerability management and security monitoring, and auditors want to see that you actively tested your controls rather than only documenting them. A pentest is the strongest available evidence for that, which is why most auditors expect one — but some organizations satisfy CC7.1 through other means. Our SOC 2 penetration testing delivers the technical evidence alongside the compliance documentation.
Traditional consultancies charge $20,000 to $50,000 and take months to start. We scope work to fit real budgets and start within days. Contact us for a straightforward quote based on your actual environment and audit timeline.
Most assessments complete in 5 to 10 business days from kickoff. Remediation time after that depends entirely on what the gap analysis surfaces, which is why we deliver findings prioritized rather than as a flat list.
You can, and some teams with an experienced compliance lead do. The failure mode is self-assessment blind spots: teams grade their own controls generously and get surprised at audit. An outside assessment is worth it primarily because it produces findings in the format and severity language your auditor uses.
Readiness is a gap assessment we perform. The audit is a formal examination performed by an independent CPA firm, which is the only party that can issue a SOC 2 report. We prepare you for that examination; we do not issue the report.
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