SOC 2 compliance has five trust service principles to protect customer data; security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy Ideally, your organization implements your own controls and practices that meet the criteria — and align with your business operations and strategy.
3 Steps To Gain & Maintain SOC 2 Compliance
The various steps that must be taken to achieve and maintain compliance can be broken down into three general areas:
Attestation, Visibility and Reporting
Gaining Visibility and Proving your Compliance
When an auditor comes in looking for proof of your compliance, you must be able to show that you have full visibility into all your assets and can clearly define your system boundaries.
Measurable Compliance Posture
Continuously Monitoring Your Compliance Posture
Your systems need to be properly configured to meet FedRAMP requirements, and you need to have instant visibility into your compliance posture across your endpoint fleet.
Requirements & Controls
Implementing Mandatory Security Requirements and Controls
Part of being compliant requires the implementation of specific security measures, such as file integrity monitoring (FIM), behavioral detection (IDS), and other controls.
Attestation, Visibility and Reporting
Gaining Visibility and Proving your Compliance
When an auditor comes in looking for proof of your compliance, you must be able to show that you have full visibility into all your assets and can clearly define your system boundaries.
Measurable Compliance Posture
Continuously Monitoring Your Compliance Posture
Your systems need to be properly configured to meet FedRAMP requirements, and you need to have instant visibility into your compliance posture across your endpoint fleet.
Requirements & Controls
Implementing Mandatory Security Requirements and Controls
Part of being compliant requires the implementation of specific security measures, such as file integrity monitoring (FIM), behavioral detection (IDS), and other controls.
How Uptycs Helps You Achieve SOC 2 Compliance
Although SOC 2 compliance isn’t mandatory, proving your organization can be trusted with customer data can mean the difference between success and failure as a service provider. Uptycs provides a number of services that can help your organization meet the compliance criteria, while also extending the value far beyond your auditing and compliance objectives.

Visibility & Validation
Uptycs makes demonstrating compliance easy and provides thorough asset visibility.
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Zero-in on any given asset’s security posture, provenance, and prevalence
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Gain live and historical access to processes, files, certificates, and other attributes
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Benefit from comprehensive live audit support

Measurable Compliance Posture
Gain detailed compliance posture information to make identifying non-compliant assets much simpler.
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View customizable dashboard visualizations of compliance posture
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Identify where you need to target your remediation efforts
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Drill down into non-compliant assets to get associated evidence and remediation guidance
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Instantly see the latest failed configuration checks, most non-compliant resources, time to resolve non-compliance, and much more.
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Integrations with Splunk, ServiceNow and other ticketing & SOAR systems

Requirements and Controls
Set your security controls to meet compliance requirements while also making security-forward decisions to level up your defense arsenal.
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Leverage telemetry-powered behavioral detection, including IDS, to spot IoCs and IoBs and see them mapped to MITRE ATT&CK
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Get multi-method malware detection including YARA scanning and integration with third-party file reputation databases
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Utilize FIM for directories and files, with out-of-the-box sensitive folder and file detection
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Establish policy baselines and receive comprehensive monitoring, alerting and reporting on anomalous events
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Harness the power of lateral movement detection to see exactly how a threat attempts propagation within your network
SOC 2 certification is lengthy — and few organizations have the resources to take it on by themselves. Because the requirements for cloud data protection are continuously evolving, your team may still work post-certification to ensure your organization stays compliant.
Uptycs can help you streamline the process and provide the tools you need to get there in just a fraction of the time.
SOC 2 Capabilities of Uptycs Unified CNAPP and XDR
Explore the full list of capabilities that support your SOC 2 compliance requirements:
Asset Inventory Audit
- Instant visibility into security posture of an asset
- Random asset selection at scale for auditing with comprehensive insight support
- Asset provenance: serial, h/w, configs, users, network, inventory, detections, certificates and compliance
- Asset prevalence: Rare startup, paths, packages, users, access and processes as % of cohort
- Asset prevalence: Comparison of asset vs cohort: users, shell access, compliance failures and more
- Live and historical access to: processes, files, certificates and attributes and artifacts
- Comprehensive Live Audit support
CIS Audit
- OS distribution independent and distro dependent benchmarking and audit
- Over 200 comprehensive checks for rich audit
- Customizations for scoring, exclusion, parameterization of audit benchmark
- Inline CIS definitions and prescriptions
- Evidence capture from each run
- High fidelity and lightweight telemetry-based continuous compliance and monitoring
- Telemetry-based live and continuous audit and compliance support
- High-speed audits to support 24x7 monitoring
- Structured audit and results to find problems and improve security hygiene
Custom Audit & Compliance
- Granular and customizable checks
- Configuration support for scoring, parameterization of checks
- Composable checks that span multiple standards (PCI, SOC, etc.)
- Recomposable checks to create custom audit and compliance standards
- Captured structured evidence
- Established golden baselines
- Integrations with Splunk, ServiceNow and other ticketing and SOAR systems
- Customizable alerts, reports and dashboards
SOC 2 Controls Audit
- SOC 2 Audit support: Over 200 controls with CIS-based baseline per SOC 2 recommendations
- SOC 2 specific controls for: Linux
- SOC 2 specific controls for: Windows
- SOC 2 specific controls for: macOS
- Flexible and re-composable checks
- Scoring, parameterization, evidence collection, prescriptions and other features and attribution per check
- Common checks from other standards such as CIS, PCI, FedRAMP and HIPAA
Audit Support Services
- Customer partnership to establish controls
- Proactive, reactive and predictive controls
- Audit preparation by helping customer with their preparatory checklist
- Customer collaboration: Team extension
- Customer collaboration: Surface evidence
- Customer collaboration: Live visibility
- Customer collaboration: Established provenance and efficacy of controls
- Custom alerts, reports and dashboards as necessary
- Full and comprehensive report for customer engagement
Behavioral Detection (IDS)
- Comprehensive system behavior-based detection
- Telemetry-powered Behavioral Detection functionality, including IDS
- Lambda Analytics correlation for event and alerts
- Login, Sessions, Process activity detection
- Commands, Sockets, DNS, Files and more
- Behavioral (Indicators Of Behavior - IOB) detection
- Compromise (Indicators Of Compromise - IOC) detection
- Configuration and customization capabilities
- IOB’s and IOC’s mapped to MITRE ATT&CK
Malware Detection
- Multi-method malware detection
- VirusTotal integration and correlation
- 3 rd party File reputation database integration
- Live YARA scan for 100’s of signatures at process launch
- On-demand YARA scan of File and related carving
- On-demand YARA scan of Process/Memory and related carving
- YARA scan triggered by File Integrity Monitoring
- Process has baselining and correlation
File Integrity Monitoring
- FIM for directories and files
- Out-of-box sensitive folder and files detection
- Read, Write, Exec, Modify
- Multi-method correlation – system based and file system based
- Deep sys-call integration for change attribution and chaining
- Rapid inotify monitoring for micro-VM deployments
- Policy, baseline, monitoring, alerting, reporting
- Rgulatory compliance such as PCI, SOC 2, HIPAA, NIST
- Comprehensive exclusion filters and policies to reduce noise
- Auto YARA scan based on FIM triggers
Network Detection
- DNS capture and reputation correlation
- HTTP/HTTPS capture and correlation
- JA3 and JARM hash computation and reputation correlations
- JA3/JARM lookup alerts and baselining
- System socket API telemetry
- Lateral movement detection
- Logon activity and correlation with network
- Syslog capture and detection of network activity
Baseline & Outlier Detection
- Baseline creation and collection across multiple dimensions
- Logins, Paths, Hash, Sockets and many more attributes
- Baselinse based on 30,60,90, 180 days or more of historical telemetry
- Real-time activity compared against baseline
- Event and Alert correlation for process, logins, shell cmd’s, process hash, sockets and more
- Potential outliers detection based on historical baseline deviation
Vulnerability Detection
- Continuous ingestion: Asset inventory and software packages
- Continuous ingestion: Asset configuration and asset audits
- Continuous ingestion: Vendor provided security bulletins
- Continuous ingestion: CVE’s and other known sources of vulnerabilities
- Continuous ingestion: CIS and similar audit benchmarks
- Continuous Analytics: Correlation of software inventory with vendor provided security bulletins to surface software vulnerabilities
- Continuous Analytics: Correlation of asset audit and config checks to surface configuration vulnerabilities
- Standardized measurable outcomes based: CIS, CVE/CVSS/NVDB
- Customized measurable outcomes based on organizational needs