SSAE 18 / SOC 1 Type 1 Report – Background Information
A SSAE 18 / SOC 1 Type I Report shows Company’s that your Organization has appropriate controls designed and in place as of the date
A SSAE 18 / SOC 1 Type I Report shows Company’s that your Organization has appropriate controls designed and in place as of the date
Some organizations have heard of SAS 70, SSAE 16, and soon to be SSAE 18, but, don’t really know WHY they need to pay to
This tip is focused on designing controls that reflect the process being testing, if they don’t, a headache of massive proportions will be created once
The System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2 Report will be performed in accordance with AT-C 205 (formerly under AT-101) and based upon the Trust Services
A SOC 1 Report (System and Organization Controls Report) is a report on Controls at a Service Organization which are relevant to user entities’ internal
There are significant differences between a Type I and Type II report, however, we aren’t going to discuss that here, thats for another day. We
If you have never been audited before, as is the case with many service organizations, you are probably wondering what kind of documentation will I
Criteria, as defined by the SSAE 18 (formerly SSAE 16) guidance are: The standards or benchmarks used to measure and present the subject matter and
When performing a SSAE 16 Review, you will be inundated with various terms that you may have never heard of before. We plan on continuing
SSAE 18 is a series of enhancements aimed to increase the usefulness and quality of SOC reports, now, superseding SSAE 16, and, obviously the relic
So you have been performing a SAS 70 for the last couple years, or, are getting ready prepared to embark on your first SAS 70, and all of a sudden
SSAE 16 is an enhancement to the current standard for Reporting on Controls at a Service Organization, the SAS70. The changes made to the standard will bring your company, and
SSAE 22 was issued a couple years ago, back in December 2020, to supersede AT-C section 210 with three primary changes: Description of the procedures a practitioner may perform in
User access reviews are a critical control in almost any IT control framework because they help ensure that users have the appropriate level of access to sensitive data and systems.
I’ve been hearing from various people in the marketplace that they were interested in learning about some steps, at a high level, that they need to take to get off
SSAE 16 was built upon the ISAE 3402 framework, which essentially is the same thing, but accepted at an international level with a number of deviations to be discussed here