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If you’ve just completed your first SOC examination and received your final report, you might be confused about what you’re looking at. As a seasoned SOC assessor firm with over two decades of experience, we’ve provided thousands of organizations with a SOC report, and we want to help you avoid any potential confusion over the contents.

Someone once said that "a marathon is hundreds of miles. The finish is the last 26.2." Maybe that “someone” worked at the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) because they are coming to the “finish” at the end of their latest marathon, though it’ll still take some work and time to get over the line.

You’ve likely heard the phrase “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”—or at least something like it, and the sentiment is true. It’s incredibly helpful to understand what pitfalls or stumbles occurred in the past so that the same traps aren’t fallen into, and it’s even more helpful when someone compiles a list of those pitfalls that more easily lay them all out.

All of us likely remember hearing something like this from our parents: “when I come in there, your room better be clean!”

Famed poet Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn.”

“New year, new me!”

So you’ve committed to an audit. Your customers were asking, or maybe a new regulation came into effect that your organization is now subject to—whatever the reason was, you’ve got to get audited because your audit team is confirmed.