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SOC 2 · AI/ML

SOC 2 for AI/ML

Your customer, investor, or auditor just made SOC 2 a requirement. Here is what it takes, how long it runs, and how a Toronto team gets you there. Most clients are audit-ready in 8 to 12 weeks.

AI/ML companies get SOC 2 questionnaires the moment they sell to enterprises, plus new questions about how models handle customer data. We deliver SOC 2 readiness that speaks to both.

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From $3,000 CAD · gap analysis See full pricing →

Why AI/ML companies need SOC 2

  • Enterprise buyers now ask AI vendors for SOC 2 and a clear answer on how their data is used for training and inference.
  • Model-training pipelines, vector stores, and third-party model providers all become in-scope data flows for SOC 2.
  • SOC 2's Confidentiality criteria maps directly to concerns about customer data leaking into models or logs.
  • Pairing SOC 2 with an AI security review answers the technical follow-ups enterprise security teams increasingly send.

More context on this sector on our AI/ML industry page, and on the framework itself on our SOC 2 hub.

What our SOC 2 engagement covers

Tailored to AI/ML, delivered by a Toronto security and compliance team led by a published security researcher, with our offensive-security partner where offensive testing is involved.

  • Data-flow evidence covering training, inference, and vector stores
  • Controls addressing whether customer data is used for model training
  • Trust Services Criteria scoping and a gap assessment against your current controls
  • Policies, procedures, and a lift-and-adopt evidence repository
  • Control implementation across IAM, change management, vendor risk, and incident response
  • Auditor introduction and Type I / Type II audit coordination

See the full SOC 2 service page, or productized pricing for fixed-scope engagements.

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SOC 2 for AI/ML: common questions

Does SOC 2 cover AI-specific risks?

SOC 2 covers your control environment, including how you handle customer data in AI pipelines, but it is not an AI-specific audit. We often pair it with an AI/LLM security assessment for the model-layer risks.

How do we handle third-party model providers in SOC 2 scope?

They become vendors in your third-party risk process. We document the data you send them and the controls that govern it.

Will SOC 2 answer questions about training on customer data?

It documents your stated commitments and controls around data use. We help you make those commitments explicit and evidenced.

SOC 2 for AI/ML, on your timeline

Book a free 30-minute discovery call. We will tell you whether this engagement fits, what it would cost, and when we could start.

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The same work, without the line item

Every readiness programme needs a control library, an evidence register, policies and a score for the board. Being quoted five figures a year for that is normal. Paying it is not.

traztech Workspace Other GRC platforms
Licence cost $0. Free forever, no card, no paid tier $7,500 to $50,000 a year, on an annual contract
Control library, evidence register, policy templates, risk register, vendor questionnaires, readiness scoring Included Included
What it costs inside an engagement with us $0. You need a workspace either way Unchanged. The subscription sits on top of the fee
What it does to your audit quote $11,000 off a five-figure quote on one engagement, for a documented readiness position Nothing. The audit firm prices your readiness, not your tooling

Pricing in the right column is what compliance automation platforms are publicly reported to charge; none of them publish a number, so treat it as a range rather than a quote. The $11,000 came off the audit firm's own number once the readiness position was documented (the engagement). Where a paid platform is the better buy, and the fuller comparison, is on the Workspace page.

Track record

Who is actually doing the work

We are deliberately not a large firm, and we would rather show you the work than a wall of logos. Here is what is behind the advice.

5
Published CVEs, including a CVSS 9.1
76
Controls taken from nothing to a passed SOC 2 Type II
Zero
Exceptions on that Type II report
75 days
Readiness window we have hit every time we have run it
20+
Penetration testing engagements delivered

Published vulnerability research

Five published CVEs. CVE-2024-45163 (CVSS 9.1) is a flaw in the Mirai botnet itself, which gave defenders a way to shut down attacker infrastructure. CVE-2026-42626 takes HP ENVY 5000 printers offline from any unauthenticated device on the same network.

The printer is the one that matters on a compliance page: an asset nobody counts as a computer, on a flat network, downed by a device that never had to log in. Auditors ask how controls fail. We have found out first-hand.

A SOC 2 Type II built from nothing

At Humera, a venture-backed US security company, Jacob built the compliance programme in-house from nothing: no report, no policies, no documented controls. It ended in a Type II attestation across 76 controls with zero exceptions, on a team of 15.

The platform held 99.9% uptime throughout, which is the part most readiness projects get wrong: controls are easy to design and hard to retrofit onto a system people already depend on.

Recent engagements

For a Waterloo data centre operator we ran SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001:2022 together rather than one after the other, across a production campus, an AI compute platform and a self-hosted collaboration stack. Scoped so further Ontario and Quebec sites enter as they reach production. Findings delivered and remediated.

For an Ontario medtech company putting an AI clinical assistant in front of practitioners, we ran the gap analysis and built the evidence programme behind their SOC 2.