Obtaining a SOC report demonstrates that your organization has the proper controls in place to give your customers valuable peace of mind. AAFCPAs is a premier provider of System and Organization Controls (SOC) reports for organizations that must provide assurance about their systems to users.
Our experienced team is committed to delivering not just a report but also accuracy, efficiency, compliance, and actionable insights. So you can focus on what you do best. Each SOC report includes oversight by our certified ethical hacker. As a trusted issuer of SOC reports, AAFCPAs helps to assure your commitment to information and process integrity. Let’s work together to build trust with your stakeholders.
What Differentiates AAFCPAs’ SOC Practice
Agile, Smart Project Management, Fast Reports, Clear Process and Actionable Insights
Agile Methodology
Fast Moving
Clear Due Dates
Clear Responsibilities
Hands-On Team
Transparent Process
Easy Evidence Gathering
Proactive Advice
Non-Obtrusive
Agile Examination
Efficient Testing
Smart Automation
Certified Ethical Hacker
Fast Issuance of Reports
Actionable Insights
Dialogue on Outcomes
Simple Price
We advise clients on how to transition to the enhanced COSO 2013 Framework, and better manage elevated expectations regarding internal control processes. We also have a proven method for producing SOC reports that results in both a report that is clear and concise and one that contains actionable feedback to help improve your internal control environment.
- Our certified ethical hacker and our cybersecurity team participate in every SOC report.
- We use Agile Scrum as our project management methodology, with update meetings typically no longer than 10 minutes.
- We use evidence workflow software, which lets us identify who owes what, when. This software also provides dashboards to monitor progress at a glance.
- We use experienced SOC practitioners who attend “SOC school” every two years.
- Our leadership sits on the AICPA’s cybersecurity task force.
- Our leadership leads two SOC special interest groups, one for PrimeGlobal and another for a smaller subset of the top 100 firms.
SOC Readiness to Expedite the Assessment
Often, businesses don’t know they need a SOC report until a large prospect asks for it in order to proceed. These reports provide the assurance prospects or customers need to ensure their sensitive information will be protected if they conduct business with you.
In these cases, we are asked how quickly we can turn one of these around. AAFCPAs provides the following recommendations to expedite the SOC Report process>>
ISO 27001 Readiness
An ISO auditor cannot perform the readiness and the audit. AAFCPAs is experienced in ISO/IEC 27000:2022. We can save you time, money, and risk by ensuring there are no nonconformities to delay ISO certification. AAFCPAs works with clients to minimize threats to their information, communication technology assets, and operations. Clients who have engaged us to perform a SOC examination may elect to have us perform the ISO readiness, and many of the controls can be based on the SOC 2.
Starting with this base of controls, AAFCPAs will map to the ISO 27001 framework and identify gaps in controls. We can also test controls in conjunction with the SOC 2, so testing documentation can then be passed to our trusted partner for stage 1 and ultimately stage 2 ISO certification. While AAFCPAs performs readiness and operating effectiveness testing on the incremental controls to meet ISO and align this with the SOC 2 period, our partner relies on our testing to perform certification. All of the hard work is done with us, and the final steps can be completed quickly, seamlessly, and easily.