SOC 2 Type II

Definition

SOC 2 Type II is an attestation report issued by an independent CPA firm under the AICPA's Trust Services Criteria, evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of an organisation's controls over a defined audit period (typically six to twelve months). The Trust Services Criteria cover security (mandatory) and optionally availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy. Unlike SOC 2 Type I, which assesses the design of controls at a point in time, Type II tests whether controls actually operated as designed throughout the period. SOC 2 reports are widely required as a baseline of vendor due diligence in regulated procurement and are a standard input to enterprise risk reviews.

XVICA-built infrastructure produces SOC 2 evidence as a property of operation, not a project at audit time. Control evidence — access reviews, change records, incident handling, monitoring outputs — is collected continuously and exported in the format the auditor consumes. Where XVICA operates the platform under SLA, the evidence is the same evidence the customer's own programme uses for its attestations and broader regulatory obligations, eliminating the parallel-track audit overhead that historically consumed engineering time.