SOC 2 Consulting and Type II Readiness for Web3
Enterprise buyers, banks, and your customer financial auditors are asking for SOC 2. Our consulting services take you from gap assessment to a CPA-issued Type II report, with advisors fluent in key ceremonies and validators.
We respond within 24 hours
Why Web3 Companies Need SOC 2
A SOC 2 Type II answers the security questionnaire before it's sent. Three forces make it table stakes in digital assets.
Your customer financial auditors evaluate you.
When your services touch a customer's financial reporting (custody, staking, fund servicing), their financial auditors treat you as a service organization and look for a SOC report. No report means their audit gets harder, and you become the friction.
Deals stall without it.
Security review is where Web3 vendors lose months. A current Type II report skips the questionnaire cycle and proves maturity that a pentest alone can't.
Your controls live on-chain and in HSMs.
Your controls aren't badge readers. They're key ceremonies, signing quorums, and validator operations, and we evidence them credibly because we audit them for a living.
What Our SOC 2 Consulting Services Include
SOC 2 readiness to report, with one accountable partner. QuillAudits handles readiness, remediation, and evidence support so you never chase an auditor alone. The exam is performed separately by an independent CPA firm in our network, keeping your report valid.
Gap to audit-ready.
Everything before the auditor shows up.
- Trust Services Criteria scoping and system description draftingWhich categories you actually need, plus a system description covering wallets, nodes, and subservice orgs
- Gap assessment with a Web3-aware control matrixKey custody, validator infra, and on-chain change management mapped to the criteria and roadmapped
- Policy and control implementation supportRight-sized policies your engineers will actually follow, not 200 pages of boilerplate
- Evidence orchestration across the observation windowCollection calendars, Vanta/Drata setup, and pre-audit evidence QA across the observation window
Through the exam, to the report.
We manage the CPA examination end-to-end.
- Vetted CPA firm selectionLicensed, crypto-native-friendly firms from our network, pre-qualified so you're never refused at intake
- Type I when it helps the Type II pathWhere appropriate, a Type I report may provide a point-in-time milestone while the Type II observation period is underway
- Fieldwork management and exception handlingWe sit in every session, triage requests same-day, and drive findings to closure
- Annual cycle and bridge lettersRe-examination cadence, plus management bridge letters covering the gap between report periods, so year two costs a fraction of year one
SOC 2 Type I vs Type II Criteria Scope
Security is mandatory. The other four categories are elected based on your customer commitments, so you never pay for criteria nobody asked for.
| Category | What it examines | Typical for | Election |
|---|---|---|---|
| Security (CC1-CC9) | Governance, risk, access (your keys live here), operations, change management, vendors. | Everyone: the mandatory core of every report. | Required |
| Availability | Uptime commitments, capacity, backup, disaster recovery. | Custodians, validators, RPC/API providers with SLAs. | Elected |
| Confidentiality | Protection and disposal of confidential data, including key material and trading data. | Custodians, B2B infrastructure, prime brokers. | Elected |
| Processing Integrity | Complete, valid, accurate, timely, and authorized processing. | Exchanges, settlement, staking-reward calculation. | Elected |
| Privacy | Personal-information lifecycle against the AICPA privacy criteria. | Consumer platforms holding KYC and user PII. | Elected |
Our SOC 2 Readiness Process
A named engagement lead, a shared evidence workspace, and a fixed-milestone plan after the gap assessment. No open-ended consulting meter.
Map the ask.
Free call. We identify who is asking, which categories they need, and whether a Type I report is useful while Type II runs.
Find the gap.
Gap assessment against the criteria. You get a control matrix, a QuillAudits maturity score, and a roadmap at a fixed budget.
Close it.
Policies adopted, controls implemented with your engineers, automation platform wired, system description drafted.
Run the window.
Controls run through the observation window with evidence collection, health checks, and pre-audit QA.
Get the report.
The CPA firm examines. We manage fieldwork and exceptions through to your issued report, then set up the annual cycle.
Frequently Asked Questions
An enterprise buyer just asked for your SOC 2? Don't lose the quarter to it.
Tell us who's asking and leave with a recommended scope, a realistic timeline, and a clear picture of your gap, whether or not you engage us.
We respond within 24 hours
QuillAudits provides SOC 2 readiness, advisory, and audit-support services. Examinations are performed and reports issued by independent, licensed CPA firms under AICPA attestation standards.
Related frameworks: ISO 27001 readiness · NIS2 compliance readiness
Related QuillAudits services
OTHER SERVICES
Sister compliance frameworks and ongoing security leadership for teams already on a readiness path.
- ISMS design and Annex A implementation for Web3 operations.
- Internal audit and accredited Stage 1 / Stage 2 support.
- Certificate issued by an independent certification body.
- Applicability check for direct and supply-chain NIS2 exposure.
- Gap assessment mapped to Article 21's ten measures.
- Procurement-ready evidence and 24h / 72h incident workflow.
- Embed QuillAudits experts into architecture and security decisions.
- Threat modeling and security roadmap without a full-time CISO hire.
- Continuous advisory through build, launch, and scale.
