97 SOC 2 service firms that prepare you for the audit.

A service firm prepares you for the audit: readiness and gap work, penetration testing, fractional security leadership, ISO 27001, or broader compliance consulting. It does not issue the report. The SOC 2 report itself is an attestation that only an independent CPA firm can sign. Use this directory to get ready; use an auditor to get attested.

No. Auditor independence rules prevent the firm that performs your readiness or remediation work from also issuing your SOC 2 report. That is why we keep this support directory strictly separate from the auditor directory. A readiness consultant gets you prepared; an independent CPA firm performs the attestation.

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SOC 2 does not formally require readiness work, a vCISO, or a separate compliance consultant. Many companies use them to close gaps and run the program faster, and a penetration test is commonly expected to support the report, but the only mandatory party is the independent CPA firm that issues the attestation. You can engage as many or as few of these services as you need.