SOC 2

SOC 2 is table stakes for enterprise deals. Agency's U.S.-based forward-deployed engineers, supercharged by AI, run your entire SOC 2 program end-to-end — readiness, controls, evidence, and Type II maintenance — without adding headcount.

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Agency Comply · SOC 2

Overview

SOC 2 (System and Organization Controls 2) is the most widely requested compliance framework for SaaS companies selling into enterprise. Developed by the AICPA, SOC 2 evaluates an organization's controls across five Trust Services Criteria: Security, Availability, Processing Integrity, Confidentiality, and Privacy.

A clean SOC 2 Type II report is table stakes for closing enterprise deals — and maintaining it year over year is where most organizations struggle.

Automation tools flag what's broken and leave the work to you. Agency's forward-deployed engineers actually do the work — implementing controls, collecting evidence, and managing your auditor relationship on top of the GRC tools you already use.

Who Needs SOC 2

SOC 2 is essential for any company that stores, processes, or transmits customer data in cloud environments. It is the baseline certification that enterprise buyers, procurement teams, and security reviewers demand before signing contracts.

Technology & SoftwareSaaS, PaaS, and infrastructure providers are expected to maintain SOC 2 Type II as a fundamental trust signal for enterprise buyers.

Financial ServicesFintechs and payment processors handling financial data use SOC 2 to demonstrate operational security to banks, investors, and regulators.

Health & Life SciencesHealthtech companies often pursue SOC 2 alongside HIPAA to cover both operational security and regulatory compliance.

Media & EntertainmentContent platforms and adtech companies handling user data and intellectual property need SOC 2 to satisfy enterprise distribution and partnership requirements.

Retail & EcommerceEcommerce platforms processing customer data and payment information use SOC 2 to build buyer and partner trust.

Key Challenges

Seven places SOC 2 programs stall

Audited Compliance SOC 2 Type II requires continuous evidence of control effectiveness over an observation period (typically 6-12 months). Manual evidence collection across dozens of controls is the single largest time sink in SOC 2 programs.

Cross-Framework Complexity Organizations pursuing SOC 2 alongside ISO 27001, HIPAA, or GDPR face overlapping controls that require cross-mapping to avoid duplicative work.

Fragmented Governance SOC 2 spans security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy — requiring coordinated ownership across engineering, IT, HR, and legal teams.

Policy & Access SOC 2 auditors scrutinize access controls, least-privilege enforcement, onboarding/offboarding procedures, and policy acknowledgment records.

Trust & Transparency A current SOC 2 Type II report displayed on a trust center accelerates buyer security reviews and reduces questionnaire volume.

Questionnaire Fatigue SOC 2 certification reduces (but doesn't eliminate) buyer security questionnaires. Combining certification with automated questionnaire responses compresses review cycles further.

How Agency Delivers

Agency operates your SOC 2 compliance program end-to-end — from initial readiness through certification and continuous maintenance — without adding headcount to your team.

Continuous Control Validation — Agency's U.S.-based forward-deployed engineers, supercharged by proprietary AI, validate every SOC 2 control continuously across your GRC platform (Vanta, Drata), cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP), identity providers (Okta, JumpCloud), and endpoint security (CrowdStrike). Drift is detected and remediated in real time.

Automated Evidence Collection — Agency eliminates the manual screenshot-and-spreadsheet cycle. Evidence is collected, organized, and maintained automatically across every connected platform — always current, always audit-grade.

Remediation Execution — When controls fail, Agency doesn't just flag them. Rumi, the AI DevSecOps engineer inside Agency AI, writes infrastructure-as-code fixes and executes API-based remediation for cloud misconfigurations. Auditsuisse AI validates every evidence artifact before auditor submission, and Agency AI tracks audit progress in real time.

Cross-Framework Mapping — Agency AI maps SOC 2 controls to ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, and other frameworks automatically. Work done for SOC 2 carries forward to every additional certification.

Audit-Ready Every Day — Agency maintains continuous audit readiness so your SOC 2 Type II observation period is a formality, not a scramble. System descriptions and network diagrams are generated and maintained for you, and every artifact is documented and traceable.

SOC 2 Compliance Roadmap

SOC 2, run end-to-end.

How Agency operates your entire SOC 2 program — outcomes, what's included, the zero-to-audit path, and answers to common SOC 2 questions. From initial readiness through certification and continuous maintenance — without adding headcount to your team.

Program SOC 2, Run End-to-End How Agency operates your entire SOC 2 program — outcomes, what's included, the zero-to-audit path, and answers to common SOC 2 questions. Read more

Guide SOC 2 Compliance Roadmap The complete guide to SOC 2 — Type 1 vs Type 2, requirements checklist, certification process, timeline, and cost. Read the guide

Pricing · from $5,000 Express Comply Pricing Done-for-you SOC 2 at a published flat rate from $5,000 for one full year, observation period included. See pricing

Pricing · from $10,000 SOC 2 Without a Platform The spreadsheet-based package: implementation plus audit from $10,000, no GRC software required. See the package

Platform Products

Agency AIEnd-to-end cybersecurity and compliance, across the stack you already use.

GRC IntegrationsEngineer-operated GRC platform integration

Auditsuisse AIAI-powered evidence collection and analysis for IT audits.

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Common GRC Questions

GRC Platform & Virtual CISO FAQ

Answers to common SOC 2 questions — Type 1 vs Type 2, timeline, cost, and what a virtual CISO actually does for your program.

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Compliance Resources

Free SOC 2 & ISO 27001 startup resources

Plain-English buyer's guides and step-by-step readiness checklists, from the team that runs compliance end-to-end for 1,000+ companies.

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Forward-Deployed Engineers + AI that lower costs, increase velocity, and raise the bar — from policy to audit to remediation. U.S.-based forward-deployed engineers, supercharged by proprietary AI, operate your program end-to-end — on top of the tools you already trust.

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