SOC 2 Compliance Course
Everything you need to know to successfully complete SOC 2 Compliance.
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SOC 2 Course
SOC 2 Course
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Your Instuctor:
Justin McCarthy
Justin McCarthy is the co-founder and CTO of strongDM, the infrastructure access platform. He has spent his entire career building highly scalable software. As CTO of Rafter, he processed transactions worth over $1B collectively. He also led the engineering teams at Preact, the predictive churn analytics platform, and Cafe Press.
What you’ll learn in this class
WHAT IS SOC 2: History, Purpose, and Scope
- Administrative body: AICPA
- History: trend from SAS70
- Intent: To establish trust between a service provider and client
HOW TO PLAN FOR SOC 2: Understand Each Step in the Process
- Requirements: Learn about each control
- Assemble your team: Learn which departments will need to participate and how to evaluate the most effective representatives
- Create a project timeline: Set expectations with estimates of each task in order to manage
OVERVIEW OF CONTROLS/POLICIES: Summarize the Scope and Expectations
- Controls: analysis of each class of control and the implications for respective policies
- Policies: summary of key components and advice on how to evaluate scope
- Mistakes to avoid: Learn how to quickly customize each policy to suit your company's specific needs
BEST PRACTICES How Policies Map to Controls and How to Evaluate Scope & Best Practices
- Common Pitfalls: learn how to assess the appropriate scope of each policy to suit your company's context
- Controls: map each control to the appropriate policy & learn the implications before drafting your policies
- Policies: a summary of key components and advice to help avoid common mistakes during the drafting process
GETTING STARTED: Start your SOC 2 Project with Comply
- Going Live: Learn how to install Comply, a free open source SOC 2 policy library & workflow framework, and create your first project
- Task Management Overview: Learn how to quickly assign and track tasks through Jira
- Deep dive into our flexible policy templates: Quickly customize each policy to suit your company's specific need
Course Curriculum
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Frequently Asked Questions
When does the course start and finish?
The course starts now and never ends! It is a completely self-paced online course - you decide when you start and when you finish.
How long do I have access to the course?
How does lifetime access sound? After enrolling, you have unlimited access to this course for as long as you like - across any and all devices you own.
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