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SOC 2 compliance software built for continuous readiness

Most teams treat SOC 2 as an annual fire drill: scramble before the audit window, then let evidence go stale until next year. SOC 2 compliance software should make readiness a steady state, not a sprint. Scrutineer keeps your controls mapped to the Trust Services Criteria year-round and refreshes evidence on a schedule.

The platform gives you one place to see every control, its current status, the evidence behind it and the owner responsible. When a control breaks or a screenshot expires, Scrutineer flags it and routes it to the right person, so you are always close to audit-ready. Scrutineer prepares the evidence; an accredited auditor still issues the report.

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Control-mapped findings · linked evidence · you decide what to remediate

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Illustrative sample · not an audit attestation

SOC 2 ISO 27001 HIPAA GDPR PCI DSS

Controls in evidence-linked report out

AI scrutinizes you decide

Why it works

What you get with SOC 2 software

One control inventory

Every control, its TSC mapping, status, owner and evidence lives in one place, so your security and compliance teams stop working from spreadsheets.

Evidence on a schedule

Scrutineer refreshes evidence automatically so it never goes stale, which means readiness holds steady between audits instead of decaying.

Routed remediation

When a control drifts, Scrutineer assigns the fix to the right owner and tracks it to close, so gaps do not sit unowned until audit week.

What it handles

Controls in, an evidence-linked report out

Point Scrutineer at a framework or a vendor and it maps every control, pulls the evidence it can find, flags the gaps and scores the risk, returning a report with linked evidence and a prioritized remediation list. Scrutineer is decision support for readiness, an accredited auditor still issues the attestation.

Maintains a single SOC 2 control inventory
Maps controls to the Trust Services Criteria
Refreshes evidence automatically to prevent staleness
Assigns gaps to owners and tracks remediation
Shows continuous readiness, not a point-in-time snapshot
Exports organized evidence for your auditor

SOC 2 SOFTWARE readiness_report

READINESS · 82%

ACCESS CONTROL 91

evidence · MFA enforced and access reviews evidenced.

CHANGE MGMT 78

evidence · Mostly covered; one approval log left untested.

VENDOR RISK 64

evidence · Two subprocessors missing a current review.

ENCRYPTION 86

evidence · Data encrypted in transit and at rest, evidenced.

Example report layout, not customer data

Why Scrutineer

One platform that maps controls and scores risk

Not a static questionnaire, not a pass-fail black box, and not a spreadsheet you maintain by hand. Live control mapping across SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR and PCI, automatic evidence and a prioritized gap list, returned as a report you can act on. The AI scrutinizes, you decide.

Mapped to real controls

Every framework is broken down into the controls it actually requires, each scored on a red to amber to green scale, so readiness stays transparent and consistent.

Evidence behind every finding

Each control links to the exact evidence that satisfies it, the policy, the config, the log line, so the finding is auditable and your readiness is defensible.

A prioritized gap list

Open gaps roll up into a ranked remediation list, so the highest-risk findings sit at the top and your team fixes what matters before the audit begins.

Trust Services Criteria reference

The five Trust Services Criteria, and which ones you actually need

A SOC 2 report covers the criteria you choose to include. Security is mandatory in every SOC 2. The other four are optional, and adding one you cannot evidence is the most common way teams make an audit harder than it needed to be.

Criterion	What it covers	When to include it
Security, the common criteria	Protection of systems and data against unauthorized access, disclosure and damage. Access control, change management, risk assessment, monitoring, incident response and vendor oversight.	Always. Security is the only mandatory category, and a SOC 2 that covers Security alone is a complete, valid report.
Availability	That the system is available for operation and use as committed. Capacity planning, monitoring, backup, failover and disaster recovery.	When you have signed uptime commitments, or when customers ask for your SLA in procurement.
Processing integrity	That processing is complete, valid, accurate, timely and authorized.	When customers pay you to compute something for them, such as payments, payroll, billing or analytics. Rarely worth adding for a pure storage or collaboration product.
Confidentiality	That information designated as confidential is protected as committed, through classification, encryption and controlled disposal.	When contracts commit you to protect customer business data beyond ordinary security, which is common in B2B SaaS.
Privacy	That personal information is collected, used, retained, disclosed and disposed of in line with your privacy notice.	When you process personal information as the decision maker rather than only on behalf of a customer. Many SaaS companies address privacy through GDPR work instead.

Type 1 tests whether controls are designed appropriately at a point in time. Type 2 tests whether they operated effectively across a period, typically three to twelve months. A licensed CPA firm performs the audit and issues the attestation; Scrutineer maps the controls and keeps the evidence audit-ready.

Good questions

Questions about SOC 2 software

Both. For Type I, Scrutineer organizes your control design and evidence for the point in time. For Type II, the continuous evidence collection is exactly what proves controls operated over the review period. Either way, an accredited auditor issues the final report.

SOC 2 compliance software maps your controls to the AICPA Trust Services Criteria, collects the evidence that proves each control operated, and flags gaps before an auditor finds them. The useful ones pull proof automatically from your identity, cloud and ticketing systems and timestamp it, because a Type II opinion rests on controls operating across a period rather than on documents written the week before fieldwork.

SOC 2 covers security and related commitments against criteria fixed by the AICPA. SOC 1 covers controls relevant to your customers financial reporting, and its control objectives are written by your own management rather than selected from a list. The quickest test is who is asking: a customer financial statement auditor wants a SOC 1, a customer security or vendor risk team wants a SOC 2.

It depends on whether your service affects numbers in your customers financial statements. Payroll, billing, claims processing, loan servicing and fund administration usually trigger a SOC 1. Selling software that holds customer data usually triggers a SOC 2. Companies that do both, such as a platform that processes payments and stores sensitive data, genuinely need both, though the IT general controls underneath serve each report.

No. SOC 2 produces an attestation report containing a licensed CPA firm opinion, not a certificate, and there is no pass mark or registry. This matters in questionnaires: describing yourself as SOC 2 certified is technically a misstatement, and buyers who know the difference notice. The accurate phrasing is that you have a SOC 2 Type II report covering a stated period.

A Type 1 opines on whether controls were suitably designed at a single point in time. A Type 2 opines on design plus operating effectiveness across a period, commonly three to twelve months, and publishes the tests performed and their results. Most buyers want a Type 2. A Type 1 is a reasonable first step but rarely satisfies a security review on its own.

Readiness work typically takes one to four months depending on how much control infrastructure already exists. The Type II observation window then adds however long you choose, usually three months for a first report and twelve thereafter, followed by several weeks of fieldwork and report drafting. The window is the part you cannot compress, which is why starting evidence collection early matters more than moving quickly later.

Four things. Map your controls to the Trust Services Criteria you scoped, collect dated evidence continuously rather than on request, show which controls are failing right now, and produce the artifacts an auditor asks for without a manual export. A SOC 2 compliance tool that only stores policy documents leaves you doing the hard part by hand.

No. Scrutineer maps and maintains your controls and evidence and shows where you stand before an audit. The examination is performed by an independent licensed CPA firm and the opinion is theirs. No software can issue a SOC 2 report, and we would rather say so than imply a subscription closes the obligation.

Yes. Scrutineer connects to common cloud, identity, code and ticketing systems to pull evidence where the work already happens, so you are not duplicating effort or maintaining a separate evidence folder by hand.

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How much a SOC 2 audit costs

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SOC 1 compliance checklist: what auditors test

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SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR & PCI · evidence-linked controls · readiness, not certification