SOC 1, SOC 2, SOX & PCI DSS Readiness Advisory

No SOC 2 report, no enterprise deal. Are you ready for the audit?

Almost every enterprise buyer, VC due-diligence process, and B2B SaaS deal now asks for a SOC 2 report before signing — any company whose systems touch a customer's financial reporting gets asked for SOC 1, and public companies face SOX Section 404 requirements on their own internal controls. Most companies discover how documentation-heavy any of these processes is only after they've already committed to a timeline. We help you get audit-ready: gap assessments against the SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria (Security, Availability, Processing Integrity, Confidentiality, Privacy), SOC 1 control objectives, or SOX ICFR requirements, policy and control development, and readiness reviews built by advisors with hands-on experience navigating real SOC 1 and SOC 2 audits — including resolving disputes with external auditors over what counts as sufficient evidence, not just reading the framework from the outside.

  • SOC 2 Type I & Type II gap assessments — mapped to the Trust Services Criteria your report actually needs to cover
  • SOC 1 gap assessments and change-management/IT general controls (ITGC) documentation — for service providers whose systems affect a customer's financial reporting
  • SOX Section 404 readiness — internal controls over financial reporting (ICFR), segregation of duties, and ITGC documentation for public companies and IPO-track businesses
  • Policy and control documentation — the evidence your auditor will ask for, built before the audit starts, not scrambled together during it
  • PCI DSS scoping and gap assessment — for any business that processes, stores, or transmits payment card data
  • Pre-audit readiness review — a dry run that surfaces evidence gaps before your official auditor does

Priviscopes provides readiness advisory, not the official attestation or audit opinion. We are not a licensed CPA firm or a PCI Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) — SOC 1 and SOC 2 reports are issued only by a licensed CPA firm, SOX compliance is validated through your company's external financial statement audit, and PCI DSS validation for higher-volume merchants requires a QSA. Readiness advisory does not guarantee a clean audit opinion or successful validation.

Frequently Asked Questions

No — most companies need one or two, depending on their business model. Our Commercial Audit Readiness Assessment asks a few quick questions up front to point you to the right one(s).

Auditor independence rules generally prevent the same CPA firm that issues your SOC 1 or SOC 2 report from also designing and implementing your controls beforehand — doing both would be a conflict of interest. That's why readiness work happens first, with an independent advisor, before you engage the CPA firm or QSA who performs the actual assessment. Skipping that step doesn't just risk a failed first attempt — it can also compromise your auditor's independence if they're the one who built your controls.

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