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SOC 2 Readiness

Prepare the controls and evidence your customers expect to see

A request for a SOC 2 report is rarely only a compliance request — it’s usually a customer asking whether your organization can be trusted to operate its service, protect information, and control access consistently.

What SOC 2 readiness is meant to achieve

A SOC 2 report results from an examination performed by an independent, licensed CPA firm against selected Trust Services Criteria. Readiness happens before that: defining the scoped system and commitments, selecting relevant criteria, establishing controls, and proving they operate as described — not starting with a generic evidence request, but with the services customers rely on and the promises made in contracts and policies.

Secalyx helps organizations move from scattered security practices to a defined, examinable control environment: controls assigned, performed, reviewed, and backed by evidence, not just documented intent.

The appointed CPA firm performs the SOC 2 examination, issues the report, and provides the attestation opinion; management remains responsible for its system description and assertions. Secalyx prepares the organization for that examination, start to finish.

What the engagement covers

Scope

Products, infrastructure, data, people, and locations in scope; Trust Services Criteria categories; Type I vs Type II; target examination period.

Controls to evidence

Translating governance, access, change management, monitoring, and incident-management practices into assigned, evidenced controls.

Observation-period readiness

For Type II, helping control owners understand what must happen, how often, and what evidence proves it, before the observation period starts.

Sample-based checks

Spot-checking evidence during readiness so gaps surface before they become examination exceptions.

The final scope, exclusions, responsibilities, timeline, and expected outputs are agreed before work begins.

Trust Services Criteria

Security forms the common foundation. Availability, Processing Integrity, Confidentiality, and Privacy are selected according to the organization’s commitments and intended examination scope.

What you receive — and why it remains usable

Outputs

SOC 2 readiness and gap assessment
Agreed system boundary
TSC applicability analysis
Control matrix with ownership and frequency
Remediation plan
Evidence requirements and collection schedule
System-description development support
Pre-examination readiness review

How Secalyx works

Scope agreed before work starts.
Evidence examined directly, not assumed from policy.
Findings prioritized by what actually blocks examination.
Control environment built to stay repeatable after the report, not assembled once.

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