How long does SOC 2 readiness actually take?

For a team with reasonable engineering hygiene, three to four months to be audit-ready, then a Type II observation window of three to twelve months depending on what you commit to. The variable is rarely the policies — it is whether access reviews, change management and monitoring already produce evidence as a by-product of how you work. Where they do not, that plumbing is the bulk of the effort.

Do we need SOC 2 or ISO 27001?

Follow your buyers. North American enterprise procurement asks for SOC 2 almost reflexively; European and Asian buyers, and public tenders, tend to ask for ISO 27001. If you sell into both, the control sets overlap enough that doing one first makes the second substantially cheaper. Picking based on which sounds more impressive wastes a year.

Can you help if we have already failed an audit or a security review?

Yes, and it is a common entry point. A failed enterprise security questionnaire is usually specific and fixable — missing access reviews, no formal change management, unencrypted backups, no documented incident response. We work the gaps in the order that unblocks the deal, rather than starting a twelve-month programme while the contract goes cold.

Will compliance slow our engineering team down?

It does if the controls are bolted on as manual process. It largely does not if evidence is generated by systems you already run — pull request approvals as change management, IaC as configuration control, SSO logs as access records. We push for the automated version because manual evidence collection decays the moment the audit is over.

Do you provide the audit itself?

No, and we should not. The audit has to come from an independent firm, and a partner who both prepares you and certifies you is a conflict your buyers will eventually notice. We prepare you, sit with you through fieldwork, and can introduce auditors we have worked with — but the opinion is theirs.

What about DPDP, GDPR and data residency?

Those are design questions more than paperwork ones. Where data physically lives, how deletion actually propagates through backups and analytics, and what your processors do with it are architectural decisions. We work them at the design level, because a privacy policy that describes behaviour your system does not implement is worse than having no policy at all.

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Evidence you can actually produce.

SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR and DPDP readiness where the evidence falls out of systems you already run - because manual evidence collection decays the moment the audit is over.

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SOC 2 · ISO 27001GDPR · DPDPEvidence automated

3-4 months

To audit-ready with reasonable hygiene

Automated

Evidence from PRs, IaC and SSO logs

Deal-first

Gaps worked in the order that unblocks revenue

Independent

We prepare you; the auditor's opinion is theirs

Capabilities

What we actually deliver.

SOC 2 & ISO 27001 readiness

Control design, gap remediation and evidence plumbing, chosen by which framework your buyers actually ask for rather than which sounds more impressive.

Gap assessment against the real control set
Policies that describe what you actually do
Auditor introductions, fieldwork support

Access & change control

Access reviews, least privilege and change management implemented so that pull requests and SSO logs are the evidence, not a spreadsheet someone maintains.

SSO, RBAC and periodic access reviews
PR approvals as change management
Joiner-mover-leaver actually automated

Privacy by design

GDPR and DPDP handled as architecture - residency, deletion propagation and processor boundaries designed in rather than described in a policy.

Data residency and transfer mapping
Deletion that propagates to backups and analytics
DPA and sub-processor management

Security questionnaires

Enterprise procurement reviews answered from a maintained evidence base, so a security questionnaire stops being a two-week fire drill.

Reusable answer library with evidence
Failed reviews triaged by deal impact
Pen test coordination and remediation

How we engage

A sequence that de-risks delivery.

Follow the buyer

Which framework your customers actually require, and which deal is blocked today. Compliance chosen for prestige rather than procurement wastes a year.

Assess against the real controls

A gap assessment on the actual control set, not a generic checklist - so remediation effort lands where an auditor will genuinely look.

Automate the evidence

Wire controls into systems you already run. Evidence produced as a by-product survives the audit; evidence collected by hand does not.

Sit with you through fieldwork

We support the audit and remediate findings, but the opinion comes from an independent firm. A partner who does both is a conflict buyers notice.

Outcomes

What clients measure afterwards.

Deals unblocked

Security reviews answered in days from a maintained evidence base, not weeks.

Audit-ready in months

Three to four months to readiness where engineering hygiene is already reasonable.

Evidence that persists

Generated by your systems, so year two costs a fraction of year one.

Privacy that holds up

Deletion and residency implemented in the architecture, not just in the policy.

Proof

Work we have actually delivered.

Mail control plane & migration

Migrated inboxes between providers with zero data loss.

7: Migration provider presets
Live: DKIM/SPF/DMARC verify

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IT infrastructure & security

Global Connect: locked-down infrastructure that passes security review.

p=reject: DMARC, strict alignment
2048-bit: DKIM signing

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Stack

Tools we work fluently in.

Frameworks

SOC 2
ISO 27001
GDPR
DPDP
HIPAA

Evidence

Vanta
Drata
GitHub
Terraform
CloudTrail

Identity

Okta
Entra ID
Google Workspace
SCIM

Assurance

Pen testing
SAST/DAST
Dependency scanning
IR runbooks

Why SyncTrix

Senior engineers, accountable outcomes.

We work the gaps that unblock the deal

A failed enterprise review is specific and fixable. Starting a twelve-month programme while the contract goes cold helps nobody.

Evidence as a by-product

Controls wired into PRs, IaC and SSO logs. Manual evidence collection decays the week after the auditor leaves.

Policies that match reality

A policy describing behaviour your system does not implement is worse than no policy - it is a finding waiting to happen.

We don't audit ourselves

Preparation and certification from the same firm is a conflict your buyers will eventually ask about. The opinion stays independent.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

The questions founders, CTOs and security leads ask us most often before a compliance readiness engagement.

For a team with reasonable engineering hygiene, three to four months to be audit-ready, then a Type II observation window of three to twelve months depending on what you commit to. The variable is rarely the policies — it is whether access reviews, change management and monitoring already produce evidence as a by-product of how you work. Where they do not, that plumbing is the bulk of the effort.

Next step

Book a compliance call - leave knowing what's blocking you.

A 45-minute session with a senior engineer. We identify which framework your buyers actually need, what is genuinely missing and which gap is blocking revenue today - and you leave with that, whether you engage us or not.

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What happens next

1 · A senior engineer reviews your brief within 24 hours.
2 · We schedule a 30-minute discovery call.
3 · You receive a written proposal in 48-72 hours.