Enterprise customers, investors, and regulators increasingly require SOC 2 Type II. We implement the network infrastructure controls — access management, monitoring, encryption, and availability — that your auditor will test.
Get a Free Compliance Assessment →SOC 2 Type II reports are increasingly required by enterprise customers, investors, and regulators as evidence of mature information security practices. Ohio financial services firms, SaaS companies, managed service providers, and healthcare-adjacent technology companies are among the most frequent SOC 2 candidates — and all of them need their network infrastructure to support the audit evidence requirements.
The distinction between Type I and Type II is important: a Type I report confirms that controls were suitably designed at a point in time. Type II — which most enterprise customers require — confirms that the controls operated effectively over a period (typically 6–12 months). That means your monitoring, logging, and change management processes need to be running continuously, not just configured correctly on audit day.
The foundational Trust Service Criterion — required in every SOC 2 audit. Covers logical and physical access controls, system operations, change management, and risk mitigation. Your network infrastructure is directly in scope.
System uptime and performance commitments. Requires documented SLAs, monitoring, incident response procedures, and redundancy. Network failover and uptime monitoring directly satisfy Availability criteria.
Controls protecting confidential information from unauthorized disclosure. Encryption at rest and in transit, access controls, and data classification are core requirements.
System processing is complete, valid, accurate, and authorized. Most relevant for financial and transaction systems — less commonly included in network-focused SOC 2 engagements.
Role-based access controls, MFA on all system access, privileged access management, automatic session termination, and formal access provisioning and deprovisioning processes — documented for your auditor.
24/7 network monitoring with anomaly detection, security event alerting, and log aggregation. We provide the monitoring evidence your SOC 2 auditor needs to verify that you're detecting and responding to security events.
Documented network change control processes — change requests, approvals, testing, and rollback procedures. Auditors review change logs; we maintain them in the format SOC 2 auditors expect to see.
TLS encryption for all data in transit, encrypted VoIP communications, and documented encryption standards for data at rest. We configure and document encryption controls for all systems in your SOC 2 scope.
Dual-carrier network failover with documented SLAs, uptime monitoring with historical reporting, and incident response procedures — the evidence that satisfies the Availability Trust Service Criterion.
We provide documentation of our own security controls (including our SOC 2 posture) to support your vendor risk management obligations. Auditors review your third-party risk program; we make it easy to document us.
We review your systems in scope, evaluate existing network controls against the Common Criteria, and produce a written gap report. We coordinate with your auditor or CPA firm to ensure our assessment aligns with their expectations.
We implement the missing network controls — access management, monitoring, change control, encryption, and failover. Every control is configured and documented in the format your auditor's testing procedures require.
SOC 2 Type II requires controls to operate effectively over time. We manage and document your network controls throughout the observation period — maintaining logs, handling exceptions, and documenting the evidence your auditor will sample.
We provide your auditor with direct access to monitoring dashboards, log exports, and control documentation. We respond to auditor inquiries about network controls so your internal team isn't translating between technical and audit language.
Type I is a point-in-time assessment — it confirms that controls are suitably designed as of a specific date. Type II covers a period (typically 6–12 months) and confirms that controls operated effectively throughout that period. Enterprise customers and investors almost always require Type II. Type I is useful as a first step, but you'll likely need to progress to Type II.
Security (Common Criteria) is mandatory — you can't have a SOC 2 without it. Most technology companies also include Availability (especially if you have uptime SLAs with customers). Confidentiality is common for companies handling sensitive customer data. Processing Integrity is typically added for financial processing systems. Privacy overlaps with other frameworks (GDPR, CCPA) and is less commonly included.
Significantly. The Common Criteria CC6 (Logical and Physical Access), CC7 (System Operations and Monitoring), and CC8 (Change Management) sections all have direct network infrastructure requirements. Your auditor will test whether access controls, monitoring, and change processes are documented and operating. Your network infrastructure is almost certainly in scope.
Yes. Starting from scratch is actually easier than trying to retrofit poor controls — because we can design the network architecture correctly from the beginning. We implement the technical controls, establish monitoring, and document everything in audit-ready format. The gap between where most Ohio companies start and where they need to be is entirely addressable with the right implementation partner.
The observation period for Type II is typically 6–12 months, during which your controls must operate continuously. Before that, you need 60–90 days of implementation and stabilization. Realistically, plan 9–15 months from starting implementation to receiving your first Type II report. We help you start the clock with controls that are correctly implemented from day one.
Find out where your network infrastructure stands against SOC 2 Common Criteria requirements — before your auditor does. Our free assessment is written, specific, and has no obligation attached.
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