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SOC 2 · SaaS

SOC 2 for SaaS

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.

For B2B SaaS, SOC 2 is the report every enterprise prospect asks for before they will sign. We get you audit-ready fast so security review stops stalling your deals.

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Why SaaS companies need SOC 2

  • Enterprise buyers gate procurement on a SOC 2 report: no report often means no deal, or a months-long security review instead.
  • SOC 2 is built on the AICPA Trust Services Criteria; the Security (Common Criteria) category is mandatory, with Availability and Confidentiality commonly added for SaaS.
  • A multi-tenant SaaS architecture puts logical access, change management, and tenant isolation squarely in audit scope.
  • A clean SOC 2 report shortens future questionnaires and becomes a repeatable sales asset.

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

What our SOC 2 engagement covers

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

  • Multi-tenant access-control and tenant-isolation evidence
  • Mapping of your existing cloud controls to the Trust Services Criteria
  • 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 SaaS: common questions

How long does SOC 2 take for a SaaS company?

Our productized SOC 2 in 75 days engagement gets most SaaS teams to a Type I attestation quickly, then plans the Type II observation window. Actual timing depends on how mature your existing controls are.

Do we need SOC 2 Type I or Type II?

Type I attests that controls are designed properly at a point in time; Type II attests they operated effectively over a period, commonly 3 to 12 months. Enterprise buyers usually want Type II eventually, but Type I is a fast first milestone.

Which Trust Services Criteria apply to SaaS?

Security, the Common Criteria, is always required. Most SaaS companies add Availability and Confidentiality, and add Processing Integrity or Privacy only if relevant to their product.

SOC 2 for SaaS, 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.