SOC 2 Compliance

SOC 2 has become the default trust signal for B2B software — the report your biggest prospects ask for before they'll sign a contract. It's also one of the most commonly rushed compliance frameworks, tackled in a panicked sprint right before a deal closes instead of built into how the business already operates.

What SOC 2 Actually Requires

SOC 2 is built around five Trust Services Criteria — security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy — of which security is mandatory and the rest are selected based on what your customers actually care about. A Type I report attests that your controls are designed correctly at a point in time; a Type II report — the one most enterprise customers actually want — attests that those controls operated effectively over a period of months, typically 3 to 12.

Where Alastor InfoSec Fits

Getting SOC 2 evidence collection right day-to-day is the job of Alastor Shield, our compliance automation platform: continuous control monitoring, automated evidence collection, and access reviews mapped directly to the Trust Services Criteria, so a Type II observation period isn't a manual scramble every few months.

On top of that, SOC 2 explicitly expects evidence of ongoing security testing — not a checkbox, an actual demonstration that your systems are tested. That's where Alastor Pulse comes in: continuous VAPT findings and retest confirmations feed directly into your SOC 2 evidence trail, so your penetration testing and your compliance evidence are the same underlying data, not two separate projects your team maintains independently.

Common Places SOC 2 Audits Get Stuck

Access reviews that happened once, not on a cadence — auditors want to see recurring, documented access reviews, not a single spreadsheet from six months ago.
Vendor risk management with no evidence trail — see Vendor Risk Assessment for how continuous vendor scoring closes this gap.
Security testing that's a PDF, not a process — a single annual pentest report rarely satisfies an auditor looking for continuous control operation over the observation period.

Who Needs SOC 2

Any B2B SaaS company selling into mid-market or enterprise customers will eventually be asked for a SOC 2 report — the only question is whether you start now, on your own timeline, or scramble later on a prospect's.

Talk to our team about mapping your SOC 2 readiness gap and closing it with continuous evidence instead of a last-minute audit prep sprint.