How CrespoAI Achieved SOC 2 Type II
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How CrespoAI Achieved SOC 2 Type II
A deep dive into our radical transparency and security auditing process.
Most startups begin SOC 2 when an enterprise deal stalls in procurement. We started ours a year earlier, because the controls an auditor asks for are the controls you want anyway when you're handling other companies' revenue data. Type II matters more than Type I: it certifies that the controls actually operated over a sustained observation window, not that they existed on the day of the review.
The five trust service criteria touch nearly every part of engineering practice. Security Mandatory SSO and hardware keys, least-privilege access reviewed quarterly, and encryption in transit and at rest with customer-scoped keys. Availability Documented recovery objectives, tested failover, and incident response drills run on a schedule rather than after an outage. Processing integrity Every model output is versioned and reproducible, so an insight delivered six months ago can be traced back to the exact data and model that produced it. Confidentiality and privacy Data residency controls, formal retention limits, and subprocessor review before any vendor touches customer data.
Roughly six months of sustained effort and meaningful engineering time diverted from the roadmap. The tradeoff was worth it: the controls that slowed us down in month one are the reason we now ship faster with fewer incidents.
"A compliance certificate is a lagging indicator. What matters is whether your engineers would run the same controls if nobody was auditing them."
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