Achieve Your Cybersecurity and Compliance Goals with Our Tailored Audit and Advisory Solutions
As a fully licensed CPA firm, we serve as your trusted compliance and assurance partner, helping you achieve your goals and build digital trust with your stakeholders.
Our Solutions
SOC 1 Audit
We provide an independent SOC 1 audit report that validates the effectiveness of your business process and information technology controls you have defined for financial reporting (ICFR) purposes.
SOC 2 Audit
Our independent SOC 2 audit report evaluates your internal controls across one or more of the five Trust Services Criteria established by the AICPA: Security (required for all SOC 2 reports), as well as any combination of Availability, Processing Integrity, Confidentiality, and Privacy that aligns with your business operations and stakeholder requirements.
Comprehensive Cybersecurity Audit: Complete Protection Assessment
We combine targeted cybersecurity framework auditing with traditional SOC 2 auditing to provide complete assurance over your information systems. This dual approach evaluates your defenses against both external cyber threats and internal control risks, delivering the comprehensive security validation that many stakeholders demand.
Strategic Risk Advisory, SOC Readiness, Data Privacy and CMMC Services
Our strategic advisory services help companies optimize their internal controls related to their information systems and data protection practices for enhanced operational efficiency and security.
We proudly provide leading advisory services in the following areas to help companies rapidly prepare for compliance: SOC 1, SOC 2, internal controls, IT general controls (ITGCs), data privacy, ISO 27001, HITRUST, Center for Internet Security (CIS), and CMMC readiness.
AI Readiness and Governance
We help companies adopt AI safely and strategically. Our services include defining AI requirements, planning secure integrations, and establishing governance frameworks using proven cybersecurity standards. From initial strategy through full implementation, we ensure your AI initiatives deliver business value while managing operational and security risks.
Looking for a SOC Audit Report?
How to Choose the Right One, Based on Your Needs.
SOC Audit Reports At A Glance
System and Organization Controls (SOC) reports help organizations demonstrate, through independent verification, their commitment to designing and implementing internal controls that operate effectively. Organizations typically choose between SOC 1, which focuses on controls that impact client financial reporting, and SOC 2, which evaluates security controls, as well as several optional areas tailored to meet specific business needs. As a fully licensed CPA firm, Alpha Secure can perform SOC audits and issue SOC reports.
How Do I Choose Which SOC Report is Right For Our Company?
The right SOC report depends on your services and what your customers need. The first two types are the most requested. There are three categories of SOC reports, although the first two types are the most commonly requested.
SOC 1 (Financial Reporting Focused)
Choose a SOC 1 report if your services could affect your client’s financial statements (like software as a service providers, payroll processing, or financial institutions).
SOC 1 reports provide assurance on the specific internal controls in place at a service organization that are relevant to a user entity’s financial reporting processes (ICFR). These focus on internal controls designed to mitigate risks related to the preparation of financial statements, for organization's whose system supports their end-user clients' financial reporting process.
SOC 2 (Security, Availability, Processing Integrity, Confidentiality, and Privacy Focused)
Choose a SOC 2 if you handle customer data or provide technology services where security, availability, or data integrity matter to your clients.
SOC 2 reports cover controls that fall into categories defined by the AICPA, and can be grouped into five primary Trust Services Criteria: Security (minimum a for SOC 2), Availability, Processing Integrity, Confidentiality, and Privacy. These reports provide assurance that the organization operates suitable internal controls to protect its clients' sensitive data, in addition to providing service availability, integrity of processed data, confidentiality, and data privacy, based on the needs of its end-user clients.
SOC 3 (Public Summary of Controls Focused)
Choose a SOC 3 report if you are looking for are marketing-friendly summaries of your SOC 2 results that you can share publicly.
SOC 3 reports provide a higher level summary of an organization’s internal controls, intended for a more general audience, beyond its key-user base, and may be provided for public distribution. These reports are intended for a broader audience and provide a high-level overview of the service organization’s controls, without the detailed controls listing or testing results.
What Type of SOC Audit Report Do We Need - Type 1 or Type 2?
What Are These Types of SOC Audit Reports and How Do They Differ?
SOC Audit Report Variations, Type 1 vs Type 2
Alpha Secure issues two types of SOC 1 and SOC 2 reports. Both explain to readers the scope of internal controls testing we performed and show your commitment to good internal control. However, Type 2 reports go further and are required by most clients to satisfy various stakeholders, including their customers and investors.
The type of report provides the user with an understanding of the scope of internal controls testing performed by the audit firm, and whether it covers the controls as of a point in time, or the operating effectiveness of the controls over an audit period.
Type 1 SOC Report (Design Focused)
A Type 1 SOC report assesses the design of internal controls and proper implementation at a specific point in time, known as a test of internal controls design. However, it does not provide assurance that the controls operated effectively throughout the audit period.
Type 2 SOC Report (Operating Effectiveness Focused)
A Type 2 SOC report assesses the operational effectiveness of internal controls over a specified period, referred to as the audit period. The Type 2 thus provides a higher level of assurance than a Type 1 SOC audit report, which only covers the design and implementation of controls.
Tailored Solutions Based On Your Business Operations
Alpha Secure seamlessly integrates its IT audit and advisory solutions with your business operations, ensuring a cohesive and streamlined approach to enhancing the security and resilience of your information systems.
