SOC 2 Compliance
SOC 2 Compliance
Prove your security controls to clients and auditors with Net-Tech, your professional technology organization (PTO)
Sooner or later, a client you want will ask for your SOC 2 report before signing. Net-Tech builds and operates the controls that report evaluates and keeps the evidence current, so the audit confirms what your systems already do instead of exposing what they do not.
The Request
When the Contract Depends on a Report You Do Not Have
SOC 2 has become the standard way service organizations prove they protect client data. Enterprise procurement teams request it, partners require it, and deals stall without it. For a small or midsized firm, the first request often arrives midnegotiation, with a security questionnaire attached and a deadline that assumes you already have a program in place.
Scrambling to build controls under deal pressure is the expensive way to get there. As a professional technology organization, Net-Tech takes the deliberate path: The controls a SOC 2 examination evaluates are the same disciplines Net-Tech builds and operates every day, so readiness accumulates in the background of well-run IT instead of arriving as a crisis project.
Ready before the audit begins
The Framework
What a SOC 2 Examination Evaluates
SOC 2 reports are defined by the AICPA and issued by independent CPA firms. A Type I report evaluates whether your controls are suitably designed at a point in time; the more requested Type II evaluates whether they operated effectively over a review period, commonly 3 to 12 months. Both measure your organization against the trust services criteria.
Security
Is the system protected against unauthorized access?
Availability
Is the system available for operation and use as agreed?
Processing integrity
Is processing complete, valid, accurate, timely, and authorized?
Confidentiality
Is information designated as confidential protected as agreed?
Privacy
Is personal information handled in line with your privacy commitments?
Security is required in every SOC 2 report; the remaining criteria are included based on the commitments your organization makes to clients. Because Type II evaluates controls over months of operation, the way your IT runs every day is the audit.
Our Approach
The Controls an Auditor Examines Are the Ones Net-Tech Runs Every Day
The component list of a SOC 2 examination reads like a description of the Net-Tech programs.
Security Policies and Procedures
Documented policies and the day-to-day procedures your employees actually follow, implemented as part of the program rather than written for the audit and shelved after it.
Access Control and Authentication
Controlled, conditional access to organizational data and systems, unique credentials, and multifactor authentication on the accounts that matter most.
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Threats and vulnerabilities identified across your environment and turned into a prioritized remediation plan, revisited as your systems and the threat landscape change.
Monitoring and Technical Testing
Systems monitored 24x7x365 with logging in place, vulnerability management kept current through automatic updates and patching, and testing coordinated on the cadence your report period requires.
Security Awareness Training
Training for your employees is included in the defined Net-Tech programs, giving the auditor evidence of an educated workforce and giving you fewer incidents to explain.
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
Enterprise backup and disaster recovery systems are built into the architecture of the program, directly supporting the availability criteria: recovery capabilities that exist, run, and can be demonstrated.
Breach Response Readiness
Real-time notification of outages and incidents, with best practice protocols for restoration, so security events are contained, documented, and reportable rather than chaotic.
Evidence, Continuously
A Type II audit asks for proof across the entire review period. Because Net-Tech documents configurations, changes, and monitoring as they happen, the evidence request becomes an export, not an excavation.
Benefits
Benefits of SOC 2 Readiness With Net-Tech
Deals stop stalling
When the report request comes, the answer is a timeline, not a scramble.
The audit gets cheaper
Auditors bill for findings and follow-ups; a well-run environment shortens both.
Type II holds up
Controls that operate continuously pass a review period; controls stood up for the audit do not.
Security questionnaires get easier
The same evidence that satisfies the auditor answers the procurement team.
One partner, whole program
Policies, controls, monitoring, training, and evidence are handled by the team already running your IT.
Predictable cost
Readiness is part of the subscription, not a six-figure crisis project before your biggest deal.
1983 Serving Western Washington
Track Record
Readiness for the Firms Clients Have To Trust
Since 1983, Net-Tech has supported Western Washington service organizations whose business depends on client trust: accounting and wealth management firms, staffing agencies, healthcare business services, and growing companies selling into enterprises for the first time. For all of them, SOC 2 is the same story: the organizations that pass comfortably are the ones whose IT was run to that standard all along.
Outcomes
Outcomes You Can Expect
- Audit readiness
- Compliant solutions
- Secure access and secure data
- Contracts that close
- Uptime
- Cost transparency
- Simplified vendor management
- Strategic direction
- Long term ROI
Getting Started
4 Steps to Joining an Enterprise IT Subscription Program
Schedule an assessment
We evaluate your controls against the trust services criteria your clients will ask about.
Subscribe
Sign up for the IT subscription program that fits your organization.
We migrate your data
The Net-Tech team handles deployment, remediation, and transition.
You focus on running your business
When the auditor arrives, your systems are already ready.
Your Next Big Client Will Ask for Proof. Let Net-Tech Make Sure You Have It.
Controls that operate every day, evidence that accumulates automatically, and a readiness posture that turns the SOC 2 request from a threat into a formality.
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