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SOC 2 Type 2 Timeline: How Long It Really Takes
A realistic SOC 2 Type 2 timeline: readiness, the observation window, fieldwork, and report delivery. What you can compress, and what you cannot.
SOC 2· 6 briefs
SOC 2 briefs.
Your enterprise prospect sent a security questionnaire. Or your sales cycle stalled on “do you have a SOC 2 report?” SOC 2 (System and Organization Controls 2) is the audit framework US enterprise buyers use to verify that your security controls are real — not just a policy document sitting in Notion.
It covers five Trust Services Criteria: security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy. Most SaaS companies start with security only — the one required criterion — and add others as contracts demand. Type I tests your controls at a point in time. Type II tests whether they operated over a period (usually six or twelve months). The briefs below cover the decisions you face before, during, and after your first audit: how to scope, what auditors actually test, and how to run the programme without halting product work.
If you’re ready to scope a SOC 2 programme, visit the SOC 2 service page or book a scoping call.
90 days
Typical Type I timeline
$15–40K
Average audit cost
5
Trust Services Criteria
No deck. No sales pitch. We scope the programme, give you the gap analysis, and you decide if there’s a fit.
SOC 2 briefs— 6
If one of these briefs reflects where you are right now, we run scoping calls without a deck. Book a scoping call.