System And Organization Controls (SOC) are assurance reporting frameworks designed to assist service organizations in building confidence and trust between the stakeholders, entities and the service providers. The controls are standards designed to assist service organizations imparting services to their clients and customers, and helping them meet the internal and external stakeholders demand for trust, transparency and contractual obligations and marketplace concerns. The SOC reports aid in providing reasonable assurance to companies that their service providers have demonstrated capability of controls on security, availability, confidentiality, processing integrity, security and privacy ensuring that the organizations are operating in an ethical and compliant manner. SOC Assessment and Audit Reports Are Classified Depending On Their Usage and Service Controls As defined below.
SOC 1:
- Pertaining to ICFR, this reporting covers the controls of service organization over its end user’s financial reporting. This is classified under two categories Type 1 reporting & Type 2 reporting.
SOC 2:
- Concerned for Service Organization’s Trust Services Criteria (TSC). It defines controls necessary at a service organization that are relevant to Security, Availability, Processing Integrity, Confidentiality and Privacy. This is classified under two categories Type 1 reporting & Type 2 reporting./li>
SOC 3:
- Done in line with SOC 2 reporting, SOC 3 reporting is meant for general use or for customers who need assurances regarding the necessary controls maintained and managed by the organization.
SOC Cyber security:
- AICPA has issued a Cyber security Risk Management Reporting Framework, through which a CPA reports on an organization's enterprise-wide cyber security risk management program. At DKMH, the team of Certified Public Accountants, as your SOC compliance partner, we will understand your objectives, identifying gaps and threats, supporting you to remediate the gaps and risks to achieve a SOC Compliance.