SOC 2 Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical SOC 2 Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any SOC 2 related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated SOC 2 specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the SOC 2 Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.


Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…


• Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation


Then find your goals...

STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 997 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which SOC 2 improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 997 standard requirements:


1. How does the organization ensure that its supply chain risk management program is aligned with the Trust Services Criteria, and what is the process for evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of supply chain risk management controls?
   
   

2. How does an organization's crisis management program demonstrate its ability to respond to and manage crisis situations that could impact the security, availability, and confidentiality of customer data during the SOC 2 audit process?
   
   

3. How does the organization's security architecture and design address the concept of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), and what controls are in place to ensure secure deployment of software and systems?
   
   

4. How does an organization's penetration testing and vulnerability management program demonstrate the ability to identify and respond to vulnerabilities and threats, and how does this impact the overall SOC 2 audit?
   
   

5. How does an organization's business resilience program ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data during a business disruption, and what are the key controls evaluated during the audit?
   
   

6. How does the organization's risk management process consider the potential impact of risks on the achievement of its objectives, including the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of customer data?
   
   

7. How does the organization determine the classification of sensitive data, such as customer information or intellectual property, and are these classifications consistently applied across the organization?
   
   

8. How does the organization's security architecture and design address the concept of secure configuration and change management, and what controls are in place to ensure secure configurations and changes?
   
   

9. What training and awareness programs are in place to ensure employees understand their roles and responsibilities during a business disruption, and how are these programs assessed during the SOC 2 audit?
   
   

10. What are the organization's procedures for ensuring business continuity in the event of an unexpected disaster or outage, and how are these procedures documented and communicated to relevant personnel?
    
    


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:


• The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the SOC 2 book in PDF containing 997 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your SOC 2 self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:


• The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the SOC 2 Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which SOC 2 areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
  
  


• Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix

• Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough SOC 2 Self-Assessment

• Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results

• Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:



STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage SOC 2 projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step SOC 2 Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 SOC 2 project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Activity Duration Estimates: Are risks monitored to determine if an event has occurred or if the mitigation was successful?
   
   

2. Cost Management Plan: Is there a formal process for updating the SOC 2 project baseline?
   
   

3. Probability and Impact Assessment: How would you assess the risk management process in the SOC 2 project?
   
   

4. Quality Audit: How does your organization know that its staff financial services are appropriately effective and constructive?
   
   

5. Requirements Management Plan: What information regarding the SOC 2 project requirements will be reported?
   
   

6. Human Resource Management Plan: Has a quality assurance plan been developed for the SOC 2 project?
   
   

7. Activity Attributes: Can you re-assign any activities to another resource to resolve an over-allocation?
   
   

8. Project Schedule: Did the final product meet or exceed user expectations?
   
   

9. Risk Audit: Do you ensure the recommended rules of play and protocols are followed for your activity?
   
   

10. Lessons Learned: Was the purpose of the SOC 2 project, the end products and success criteria clearly defined and agreed at the start?


 
Step-by-step and complete SOC 2 Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 SOC 2 project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 SOC 2 project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 SOC 2 project Scope Statement

• 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log

• 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure

• 2.9 WBS Dictionary

• 2.10 Schedule Management Plan

• 2.11 Activity List

• 2.12 Activity Attributes

• 2.13 Milestone List

• 2.14 Network Diagram

• 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements

• 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure

• 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates

• 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet

• 2.19 SOC 2 project Schedule

• 2.20 Cost Management Plan

• 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates

• 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet

• 2.23 Cost Baseline

• 2.24 Quality Management Plan

• 2.25 Quality Metrics

• 2.26 Process Improvement Plan

• 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix

• 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities

• 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan

• 2.30 Communications Management Plan

• 2.31 Risk Management Plan

• 2.32 Risk Register

• 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment

• 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix

• 2.35 Risk Data Sheet

• 2.36 Procurement Management Plan

• 2.37 Source Selection Criteria

• 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan

• 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:


• 3.1 Team Member Status Report

• 3.2 Change Request

• 3.3 Change Log

• 3.4 Decision Log

• 3.5 Quality Audit

• 3.6 Team Directory

• 3.7 Team Operating Agreement

• 3.8 Team Performance Assessment

• 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment

• 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:


• 4.1 SOC 2 project Performance Report

• 4.2 Variance Analysis

• 4.3 Earned Value Status

• 4.4 Risk Audit

• 4.5 Contractor Status Report

• 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:


• 5.1 Procurement Audit

• 5.2 Contract Close-Out

• 5.3 SOC 2 project or Phase Close-Out

• 5.4 Lessons Learned


Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any SOC 2 project with this in-depth SOC 2 Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose SOC 2 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 SOC 2 and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines


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

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it 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 Toolkit 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 SOC 2 investments work better.

This SOC 2 All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.