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Framework - SOC 2 Compliance Course

The **SOC 2 Compliance Audio Course** is your comprehensive, audio-first guide to understanding and implementing the Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 framework from the ground up. Designed for cybersecurity professionals, auditors, and business leaders, this course breaks down the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Trust Services Criteria into clear, practical lessons that connect compliance theory with daily operational reality. Each episode explores essential concepts

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Welcome to the SOC 2 Audio Course

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Episode 64 — Pre-Sales Enablement: Using SOC 2 to...

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SOC 2 becomes a sales accelerator when its lessons and artifacts are packaged for fast, consistent buyer due diligence. The exam will expect you to explain how to translate control narratives and evidence into customer-ready answers: a concise overview of scope and criteria selected, a timeline of Type I and Type II coverage periods, and a mapping of common procurement questions to specific report sections. Build a reusable “assurance pack” that includes the attestation report under NDA, a

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Episode 63 — Pentest Scoping, Findings Lifecycle,...

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Penetration testing complements SOC 2 by validating the real-world effectiveness of defenses, but its value depends on disciplined scope and a complete findings lifecycle. The exam will expect you to distinguish between internal and external testing, application and network layers, authenticated and unauthenticated approaches, and rules of engagement that protect production stability. Scope should reflect in-scope systems and data flows, including APIs, mobile apps, and cloud control planes

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Episode 62 — IaC Guardrails & Policy-as-Code (OPA,...

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Infrastructure as Code accelerates delivery, but it can also scale misconfigurations, so SOC 2 programs enforce guardrails that codify security expectations and make them testable. For the exam, connect IaC to CC7 and CC8: baselines live in version control, changes flow through pull requests, and policy-as-code engines such as Open Policy Agent with conftest, cloud service control policies, and organizational policies enforce least privilege, encryption, networking boundaries, and tagging

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Episode 61 — Mobile App SDLC & App-Store Release...

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2025/10/14

Bringing mobile applications into SOC 2 scope requires aligning the software development lifecycle with platform-specific governance so releases remain predictable, auditable, and secure. The exam will expect you to articulate how requirements, design, coding, testing, and approval stages translate into control objectives for Apple App Store and Google Play deployments. Key risks include insecure mobile storage, weak authentication, misuse of platform permissions, and leakage through

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Episode 60 — Multi-Cloud Specifics: AWS/Azure/GCP...

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2025/10/14

Operating across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform introduces divergent primitives that must still yield consistent control outcomes. The exam will expect you to articulate pattern-level equivalence: identity and access management, network segmentation, encryption and key custody, configuration baselines, and logging. Map roles and policies across providers so least privilege remains enforceable—federated identities, conditional access, and workload identities

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Episode 59 — Evidence Retention, Chain-of-Custody,...

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SOC 2 programs live and die by the quality and integrity of their records. The exam will expect you to distinguish operational retention (keeping artifacts long enough to support the audit and legal obligations) from over-retention that increases exposure. Define retention schedules per artifact type—tickets, logs, access reviews, training attestations, vulnerability scans—and align them with contractual and regulatory requirements. Chain-of-custody begins at creation: record who generated

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Episode 58 — Customer Trust Portals & Controlled...

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2025/10/14

Trust portals convert audit artifacts into a curated, self-service experience for customers, reducing email churn and accelerating procurement reviews. For the exam, anchor your design in least privilege and purpose limitation: authenticate requestors, validate need-to-know, and gate sensitive materials behind nondisclosure agreements. Publish high-value documents such as the system description summary, current and prior period attestation reports, penetration test letters of attestation,

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Episode 57 — GenAI/ML Services in Scope: Risks,...

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2025/10/14

When generative artificial intelligence and machine learning enter scope, the risk profile expands to include data leakage through prompts, model inversion, training data provenance, and integrity of model outputs embedded in business processes. The exam will expect a structured approach: classify data permitted for prompts, enforce least-privilege access to models and vector stores, and implement content filters and rate limits to reduce abuse. Treat model artifacts as code with

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Episode 56 — Designing a Metrics & KRIs Program for...

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2025/10/14

A metrics and Key Risk Indicators program translates abstract control objectives into observable signals that management can act on throughout the audit period. For exam readiness, understand the progression from vision to measurement: define objectives tied to the Trust Services Criteria, identify the risks that threaten those objectives, and then select indicators that reveal changes in exposure. Good indicators are specific, directional, and feasible to collect from systems of record

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Episode 55 — SRE for Availability: SLOs, Error...

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2025/10/14

Site Reliability Engineering provides quantitative tools to manage availability as a product feature rather than a vague aspiration. The exam will expect fluency in service level indicators, service level objectives, and error budgets that translate customer expectations into measurable targets. Define indicators such as request success rate, latency percentiles, and freshness of batch outputs; set objectives that reflect contractual commitments; and derive an error budget that quantifies

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Episode 54 — Backup, Restore, and DR Testing at Scale

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2025/10/14

Backups provide recoverability; restores prove it. The exam emphasizes the difference between having copies and demonstrating business-level recovery within stated recovery time and recovery point objectives. At scale, design a tiered strategy: frequent, near-line snapshots for fast rollback; immutable, off-site copies for ransomware resilience; and cold archives for regulatory retention. Catalog critical applications, data classifications, and dependencies so runbooks reflect actual

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Episode 53 — Remote Work Security: Home Offices,...

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2025/10/14

Remote work extends the security perimeter to living rooms, hotel networks, and partner sites, increasing variability and exposure. The exam will expect coverage of secure connectivity, user authentication, and environment controls. Standardize on strong multifactor authentication, device compliance checks, and least-privilege access to applications through secure gateways or zero-trust network access. Home office guidance should cover router hardening, guest network separation, and safe

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Episode 52 — Endpoint & MDM Controls for Distributed...

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2025/10/14

Endpoint security anchors the control environment when users operate outside traditional offices. The exam will expect you to describe a layered model: device enrollment, baseline configuration, patching, anti-malware, disk encryption, host firewalls, and telemetry. Mobile Device Management (MDM) and Enterprise Mobility Management platforms enforce these settings consistently across laptops, tablets, and phones. Enrollment gates access to corporate resources; compliance checks verify

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Episode 51 — Secrets Management in Code and Pipelines...

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Secrets management protects credentials, tokens, keys, and connection strings from exposure across source code, build systems, and runtime environments. For exam readiness, understand the lifecycle: creation, storage, retrieval, rotation, and revocation, with least-privilege access at every step. Hard-coding secrets in repositories is a critical anti-pattern; instead, use dedicated vaults or cloud secret managers that provide versioning, audit logs, and dynamic credentials. Build and

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Episode 50 — Key Management & BYOK/KMS Rotations

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2025/10/14

Key management underpins encryption controls within the Confidentiality and Privacy criteria. The exam expects understanding of lifecycle governance—key generation, storage, distribution, rotation, and destruction. Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) models let customers retain control of cryptographic keys within cloud Key Management Services (KMS). Proper configuration ensures data remains encrypted even from provider administrators. Rotations verify that keys are periodically refreshed and

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Episode 49 — Data Residency & Sovereignty in SOC 2...

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2025/10/14

Data residency defines where data physically resides; sovereignty defines which jurisdiction’s laws apply. The exam tests understanding of how these concepts shape SOC 2 scope, particularly under the Availability, Confidentiality, and Privacy criteria. Multi-region hosting and cross-border replication introduce legal and operational complexity. Organizations must document storage locations, backup regions, and applicable laws governing access. Residency determines infrastructure placement;

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Episode 48 — Beyond the Stamp: Turning SOC 2 into...

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2025/10/14

Achieving a SOC 2 report should mark the start of continuous improvement, not the end. The exam expects you to articulate how organizations convert audit results into measurable business outcomes: faster sales cycles, improved operational maturity, and stronger customer confidence. SOC 2 findings highlight where governance, automation, and monitoring can evolve. Post-audit retrospectives analyze exceptions, update risk registers, and refine processes. The true value lies in operationalizing

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Episode 47 — Annual Maintenance: Calendars, KRIs,...

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2025/10/14

SOC 2 compliance is not a one-time milestone but a continuous program requiring annual maintenance. The exam emphasizes how recurring activities—control execution, evidence collection, and management reviews—are organized through compliance calendars. These calendars schedule control tasks, audits, policy updates, and risk reviews to maintain readiness year-round. Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) measure performance, identifying drift or degradation before the next audit cycle. Maturity models

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Episode 46 — Startup vs Enterprise Right-Sizing

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2025/10/14

Implementing SOC 2 at a startup differs dramatically from doing so in a large enterprise. The exam expects you to recognize proportionality—controls must be effective and sustainable, not excessive for the organization’s size or risk profile. Startups should focus on policy clarity, automation, and minimal viable control coverage across the Trust Services Criteria. Enterprises, meanwhile, must manage control standardization across teams, geographies, and subsidiaries. The principle is

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