SOC 2 Audit USA
SOC 2 Type I & Type II Audit for US SaaS, Cloud & Enterprise Vendors
Praxis-Q delivers SOC 2 readiness, control implementation and evidence for US-based SaaS companies, cloud service providers, and enterprise vendors across all 5 Trust Services Criteria - Security, Availability, Confidentiality, Processing Integrity, and Privacy. The formal SOC 2 attestation report is issued by an independent licensed CPA firm.
SOC 2 USA
SOC 2 Audit USA
SOC 2 Type I & Type II Audit for US SaaS, Cloud & Enterprise Vendors
The Problem
Enterprise SaaS buyers will not sign without a SOC 2 report. No report means blocked deals, stalled procurement, and lost revenue to compliant competitors.
What We Do
- Readiness
- Scope
- Controls
- Audit
- Report
What You Get
- SOC 2 Type I and Type II reports
- All 5 Trust Services Criteria covered
- SOC 2 report issued by an independent licensed CPA firm
- Designed for US SaaS and cloud vendors
- Enterprise vendor questionnaire support
- AICPA AT-C 205 aligned methodology
- Fast-track fast-track delivery
- SOC 2 readiness assessment included
Why weeks, not months
AI-assisted evidence review, one client portal
Every SOC 2 USA engagement runs on the Praxis-Q compliance platform. You upload evidence per control, AI scores it against the requirement, and your auditor reviews in the same workflow — from scoping through to the issued, publicly verifiable certificate.
AI evidence scoring
Every upload is scored against the control before an auditor sees it — gaps surface in minutes, not at the review meeting.
One client portal
Scoping, evidence, auditor queries and status live in one place. No email chains, no spreadsheet trackers.
Auditor sign-off
Praxis-Q auditors review inside the same workflow, so review rounds shrink and the certificate issues sooner.
What SOC 2 Actually Certifies
SOC 2 reports against the AICPA's Trust Services Criteria, organised into five categories: Security is mandatory for every report, and Availability, Confidentiality, Processing Integrity and Privacy are added only if relevant to what you sell - a payments platform typically adds Processing Integrity, a healthcare-adjacent vendor often adds Confidentiality and Privacy. The 2022 revision to the points of focus under each criterion sharpened expectations around vendor risk management and logical access without changing the five categories themselves. Praxis-Q scopes which categories actually apply to your product before starting evidence collection, since adding categories you don't need pads the audit timeline for no buyer benefit.
Type I or Type II: Which Report Matches Your Sales Cycle
A Type I report tests whether your controls are suitably designed at a single point in time - faster and cheaper, and useful as a bridge while you accumulate the evidence a Type II report needs. A Type II report tests whether those same controls actually operated effectively over a review period, typically three to twelve months, and it's what most enterprise security teams ultimately require before they'll sign. Praxis-Q scopes new clients into whichever timeline matches an active deal, then converts a Type I client to Type II once enough of the review period has elapsed - see our dedicated Type I vs Type II comparison for the full breakdown, including how SOC 1 (a different report entirely, covering financial reporting controls under SSAE 18) fits in if that's what you were actually looking for.
Who Can Actually Issue a SOC 2 Report
Unlike ISO 27001, where an accreditation body (UKAS, ANAB, and others under the IAF's Multilateral Recognition Arrangement) accredits the certification bodies that issue certificates, SOC 2 has no accreditation layer at all - only a licensed CPA firm operating under AICPA attestation standards can issue the report, full stop. This means the readiness work (which is what a firm like Praxis-Q does) and the attestation itself (which only a CPA firm can do) are structurally separate functions, and any vendor offering to do both under one roof for a SOC 2 report specifically should raise a flag. Praxis-Q partners with an independent CPA firm for the attestation stage so the separation stays clean and the resulting report holds up to buyer scrutiny.
Scoping the Trust Services Categories for Your Business
Getting category scope wrong in either direction costs you: too narrow and a buyer's security team flags the gap during due diligence; too broad and you've paid for audit evidence nobody asked for. Praxis-Q's scoping conversation starts from what you actually sell and who audits you - a B2B SaaS platform selling to enterprise IT usually needs Security plus Availability; a fintech or payments processor typically needs Processing Integrity as well; a vendor handling any health or biometric data usually needs Confidentiality and often Privacy. We map this against your actual customer contracts and security questionnaires rather than defaulting to 'all five' as a hedge.
Engagement Timeline
Gap assessment against the applicable Trust Services Criteria typically runs one to two weeks. From there, a Type I report can be issued once the design evidence is in place - often four to eight weeks from kickoff depending on remediation needed. A Type II report requires the full review period (three to twelve months) to elapse with controls operating and evidence being collected continuously before the CPA firm can test operating effectiveness and issue the report. Praxis-Q runs the readiness and evidence-collection tooling throughout that period so the eventual audit isn't a scramble at the end of it.