SOC2 A Complete Guide - 2021 Edition

Are exercises and tests carried out to practice responding to system failures?

Are personnel trained and provided with awareness programs at least once a year?

Are you running your own email and/or collaboration applications on-premises?

Do you provide tenants with infrastructure service failover capability to other providers?

Does it provide an adequate level of compensation should a breach occur?

Does the cloud service support your organizations identity management strategy?

Does your information security training program adequately cover security awareness?

Has the contracting organization been in regular contact with the cloud service provider?

Is physical and logical user access to audit logs restricted to authorized personnel?

What, if any, rules govern the physical location of the cloud service provision?


This SOC2 Guide is unlike books you're used to. If you're looking for a textbook, this might not be for you. This book and its included digital components is for you who understands the importance of asking great questions. This gives you the questions to uncover the SOC2 challenges you're facing and generate better solutions to solve those problems.


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization and department.



Unless you're talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a process. That process needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'



This Self-Assessment empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make SOC2 investments work better.



This SOC2 All-Inclusive Self-Assessment enables You to be that person.



INCLUDES all the tools you need to an in-depth SOC2 Self-Assessment. Featuring new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core levels of SOC2 maturity, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which SOC2 improvements can be made.



In using the questions you will be better able to:



Diagnose SOC2 projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices.



Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals.



Integrate recent advances in SOC2 and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines.



Using the Self-Assessment tool gives you the SOC2 Scorecard, enabling you to develop a clear picture of which SOC2 areas need attention.



Your purchase includes access to the SOC2 self-assessment digital components which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool that enables you to define, show and lead your organization exactly with what's important.