Proof Your Customers Can Verify
Most enterprise and mid-market buyers now ask for a SOC 2 report before they'll sign a contract, and security questionnaires keep getting longer. A SOC 2 report cuts through that: it's an independent examination of your controls, performed by a licensed CPA firm, that your customers' security and procurement teams already know how to read. Frontier prepares you for that examination — gap analysis, policy and control development, and audit-ready evidence — so that when your auditor shows up, there are no surprises and no scramble.
SOC 2 READINESS
Get Audit-Ready, Not Audit-Surprised
Readiness Assessment & Gap Analysis
We map your current environment against the Trust Services Criteria and tell you exactly where the gaps are before an auditor does.
Policy & Control Development
Custom security policies and control documentation, written to match how your organization actually operates — not a generic template.
Evidence Collection & Monitoring Setup
We help you stand up the evidence trail auditors expect, so control operation is documented continuously instead of reconstructed under deadline pressure.
Auditor Coordination & Observation Support
We prepare your team for auditor requests and stay engaged through fieldwork, so your staff isn't fielding unfamiliar questions alone.
TRUST SERVICES CRITERIA
Scoped to What Your Customers Actually Ask For
Every SOC 2 report is built on the AICPA's Trust Services Criteria. Security is mandatory; the rest are added based on the commitments you make to your customers.
- Security (required): The baseline Common Criteria every SOC 2 report includes — access controls, change management, and system monitoring.
- Availability: Uptime, performance monitoring, and disaster recovery commitments you've made to customers.
- Processing Integrity: Assurance that system processing is complete, accurate, timely, and authorized.
- Confidentiality: Protection of proprietary or contractually confidential information, including its secure disposal.
- Privacy: How personal information is collected, used, retained, disclosed, and disposed of.
We help you scope the right criteria for your report, so you're not paying to prove commitments you never made.
HOW WE ENGAGE
Three Tiers, Built to Follow Each Other
Most companies start at Tier 1 to find out where they stand, add Tier 2 to build what's missing, and move to Tier 3 to carry the Type II observation window. Each tier stands alone — you're never locked into the next one.
Tier 1 — SOC 2 Gap Analysis
Find out exactly where you stand before an auditor tells you.
Included:
- Current environment mapped against the Trust Services Criteria
- Scoping — which criteria beyond Security actually apply to you
- Risk-rated gap analysis
- Control implementation roadmap with ownership assigned
- Findings report and executive briefing
Tier 2 — Audit Readiness & Remediation
Where the controls actually get built — and stress-tested before fieldwork.
Included:
- Custom policy and control documentation, matched to how you really operate
- Control implementation support with ownership assigned
- Evidence trail and continuous monitoring setup
- Mock audit / readiness review before the official examination
- Auditor hand-off package and executive briefing
Tier 3 — Type II Monitoring Retainer
Type II reports on how controls operate over time. This is how you stay ready for the whole window.
Included:
- Continuous evidence collection support
- Quarterly control testing and walkthroughs
- Auditor liaison throughout the observation period
- Monthly readiness report and exception tracking
- Annual policy refresh
BUNDLES
Or Take the Whole Engagement as One Number
Two ways to package the ladder. Both cost less than buying the tiers separately.
SOC 2 Readiness Package
Gap analysis plus every control built — walk into a Type I examination with confidence.
Included:
- Everything in Tier 1 — scoping, gap analysis, and implementation roadmap
- Everything in Tier 2 — policies, controls, evidence trail, and mock audit
- Executive briefing and auditor hand-off package
Complete SOC 2 Program
Gap analysis, readiness, a fully coordinated audit, and six months of Type II support — one point of contact, start to finish.
Included:
- Everything in the SOC 2 Readiness Package
- Audit Firm Coordination — we source, vet, and manage your CPA firm
- Six months of Tier 3 Type II monitoring included
Pricing is scoped to your staff count, product footprint, and which Trust Services Criteria apply. Tell us about your environment and we'll send a fixed-fee quote.
Request a QuoteAUDIT INDEPENDENCE
Readiness Is Ours. The Report Is Independent.
Frontier is a compliance and security consultancy, not a CPA firm — and that's by design. AICPA independence rules require the firm that designs and builds your controls to be different from the firm that attests to them, so there's never a conflict of interest between who prepares you and who examines you.
Audit Firm Coordination
You shouldn't have to shop for an auditor on top of everything else. We source and vet 2–3 licensed CPA firms matched to your scope, manage the RFP and negotiate the fee on your behalf, and stay your single point of contact through fieldwork. You still sign your own engagement letter directly with the CPA firm you choose — that direct relationship is a requirement of their independence, not paperwork we skip. The audit fee itself is paid straight to that firm and varies widely with your scope, headcount, and which criteria are in play — getting you competing quotes is part of what coordination buys you. Frontier takes no markup, referral fee, or commission on it. Our coordination fee is a flat, disclosed charge for our own time — nothing hidden in the number.