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End to end SOC 2 certification services for BPO firms, IT outsourcing companies and shared services centers across the Philippines. Get SOC 2 certified with a consultant who scopes your systems, runs the SOC 2 readiness assessment, closes control gaps and takes you through the SOC compliance audit to your SOC 1 or SOC 2 Type 1 or Type 2 report, with a clear view of SOC 2 certification cost and audit fees up front. Every engagement is mapped to the AICPA Trust Services Criteria and aligned with the Philippine Data Privacy Act (RA 10173), so the same work answers both your client questionnaires and the National Privacy Commission. Serving Makati, BGC, Cebu, Clark, Davao and PEZA economic zones nationwide.
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The Philippines runs a large share of the world's outsourced processes. A SOC 2 Type 2 report is how a Philippine service provider proves, in a form the client's auditors accept, that those processes are under control.
Before a US or EU enterprise signs an outsourcing contract, its third party risk team sends a security questionnaire. The first line usually asks for a current SOC 2 Type 2 report. Holding one turns a two month review into a short document exchange, and its absence is often where a Philippine BPO loses the deal.
Republic Act 10173 requires organizational, physical and technical security measures for personal data, along with breach reporting to the National Privacy Commission. A SOC 2 report is independent, tested evidence that those measures exist and worked over a period, rather than a policy document that has never been checked.
SOC reports are issued under AICPA standards and are recognised by buyers in the United States, Europe and Asia Pacific. A single SOC compliance audit replaces repeated client site visits and lets you bid for work you would otherwise be screened out of at the shortlist stage.
If you hold, process or transmit a client's data, or if your work feeds their financial statements, your contracts will eventually ask for a SOC report. These are the sectors we work with most across the country.
A SOC 2 certification audit is built on five Trust Services Criteria. Security is mandatory in every engagement. The other four are added only when they match the promises you make in your client contracts, because each one you add brings more controls and more evidence to collect.
Protection against unauthorised physical and logical access. The mandatory baseline for every SOC 2 report, covering access management, multi factor authentication, network security, change management, vulnerability management and incident response.
Systems are available for operation and use as committed. Add this when your contracts carry uptime or service level commitments. It covers capacity planning, backup, disaster recovery testing and the typhoon and power interruption continuity plans that Philippine operations need anyway.
Processing is complete, valid, accurate, timely and authorised. Add this when you post transactions, adjudicate claims, run payroll or transform data on a client's behalf, where an error in your output becomes an error in theirs.
Information marked confidential is protected as promised. Covers data classification, encryption in transit and at rest, restricted access and secure disposal. This is the criterion enterprise clients ask for when you hold their contracts, pricing, source code or customer lists.
Personal information is collected, used, retained, disclosed and disposed of as committed in your privacy notice. This is the criterion that lines up most closely with the Data Privacy Act and National Privacy Commission expectations for personal data processors in the Philippines.
Complete SOC 1 certification services, SOC 2 certification services and SOC 2 compliance services for Philippine organizations, from the first gap analysis through the formal audit and into annual renewal.
A SOC 2 gap assessment, also called a gap analysis: we test your existing controls against the Trust Services Criteria you have selected and return a written gap register, an owner for each gap and a remediation sequence that closes the items your client checks first.
An examination of how your controls are designed as at a single date. This is the fastest route to a report you can put in front of a client, and it becomes the foundation for the Type 2 observation period that follows.
An examination of how your controls actually operated across an observation period of 6 to 12 months, using samples drawn from real tickets, access reviews and logs. This is the report enterprise buyers and regulators expect.
SSAE 18 attestation for service organizations whose work affects a client's financial reporting. Payroll processing, accounts payable, billing, collections and fund administration teams in the Philippines are asked for SOC 1 by their clients' external auditors.
Practical sessions for control owners on what the auditor will ask for, how to capture evidence as work happens instead of reconstructing it later, and how to answer a walkthrough question without creating a finding.
Hands on support to close the gaps we find. We write the policies, stand up the access review and logging routines, and run monthly control checks through the observation period so nothing is discovered in audit week.
A dry run of the SOC compliance audit before the real one. We sample your evidence the way the auditor will, flag anything that would become a qualification, and confirm you are ready to start the observation period.
We design controls that fit how your teams already work, including agent workstation restrictions, clean desk and clear screen rules on the production floor, offshore access controls and vendor management for your own subcontractors.
An evidence calendar, named control owners and optional automated collection from your cloud, HR and ticketing systems, plus bridge letters for clients who ask what happened after your report period closed.
The two reports answer different questions from different readers. Many Philippine service providers end up needing both, issued as one combined engagement.
Type is about time. A Type 1 looks at one date, a Type 2 looks at a period. Choose based on how soon your client needs something and how mature your controls already are.
Eight steps from first call to issued report. Most of the work sits in steps 3 to 5, where gaps are closed and evidence starts accumulating, which is also where an unmanaged project usually slips.
Which client is asking, what they requested, and what your systems look like today
System boundary, report type, criteria and any subservice organizations
Current controls tested against the criteria, with a prioritised gap register
Policies written, controls implemented and owners assigned to each one
Evidence calendar set up so records build as work happens
CPA led examination, walkthroughs and sample testing of your controls
Your SOC 1 or SOC 2 report, ready to share with clients under NDA
Bridge letters, questionnaire support and the next annual audit cycle
Beyond the certificate itself, a SOC compliance audit changes how quickly you can sell, how much review effort your team absorbs and how well your controls actually hold.
A current SOC 2 report keeps you on the shortlist instead of screened out at security review
Tested proof of the security measures RA 10173 and the NPC expect from processors
Stand apart from other registered enterprises competing for the same offshore contracts
Security and compliance sections stop being the weakest part of your proposal
Due diligence shifts from site visits and long questionnaires to one document
One report answers many clients, freeing your team from repeat assessments
Independent testing carries weight that a self assessment never will at renewal
Access reviews, onboarding and offboarding stop depending on who remembers
The controls a SOC audit tests are the ones that shorten a breach when it happens
SOC 2 is not named in Philippine law, but the controls it tests are the same ones these frameworks expect you to have. One control set can carry all four.
RA 10173 requires organizational, physical and technical security measures for personal data. SOC 2 Security and Privacy criteria evidence them.
Data Protection Officer, privacy impact assessments, breach notification and processor contracts. SOC 2 gives an audited record of each.
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas supervised institutions must oversee outsourced providers. A SOC report is the evidence they request from vendors.
Registered IT-BPO and export enterprises still carry client security obligations. SOC 2 answers them in one place.
The questions Philippine BPO, IT and shared services teams ask us most often about getting SOC 2 certified, SOC 2 audit cost, Type 1 vs Type 2 and working with a SOC 2 consultant.
Univate Solutions delivers SOC 2 certification services and SOC 1 certification services to BPO firms, IT outsourcing providers, shared services centers, fintech companies and data centers across the Philippines. Whether your client has asked for SOC 1 certification because your work feeds their financial statements, or for SOC2 certification because they need assurance over security and privacy, the engagement follows the same path. We scope the system, run a gap analysis, close the findings, and take you through the SOC compliance audit to an issued Type 1 or Type 2 report. Teams searching for SOC 2 certification Philippines are usually working to a client deadline, so we plan the timeline backwards from the date your buyer needs the report in hand. Talk to our Makati team about SOC 2 certification services, SOC 2 compliance services, SOC 2 consulting services, SOC 1 certification services, SOC 1 audit support, SOC 2 readiness assessments, training and annual renewal support.
Fifteen ways Philippine organizations engage us. Tell us which one your client has asked for and we will scope it on the first call.
The formal examination itself. A CPA led SOC compliance audit tests your controls through walkthroughs and sampling, then results in a signed report you can share with clients under NDA.
Buyers usually write it as SOC2 certification in their questionnaires. Our SOC 2 attestation services lead to a SOC 2 attestation report covering security and any other Trust Services Criteria in scope.
For service organizations whose work affects a client's financial reporting. SOC 1 certification under SSAE 18 is what payroll, billing, collections and fund administration clients ask for.
Local delivery for SOC 2 certification Philippines projects, run from our Makati office in your own time zone, with on site audit weeks in Metro Manila, Cebu, Clark and Davao.
Full SOC 2 certification services from scoping and gap analysis through remediation, evidence setup, the Type 1 or Type 2 audit and annual renewal with bridge letters.
Complete SOC 1 certification services including control objective drafting, remediation and audit support, delivered alongside SOC 2 as one combined engagement where both are needed.
Support for a SOC 2 Type 2 report (SOC 2 Type II report), also called SOC type 2 certification or a SOC type 2 report: controls, evidence and an observation period planned around the date your client needs it.
The fastest route to a SOC 2 Type 1 report or SOC 2 Type 1 certification, covering control design on a single date and setting up the later Type 2 period.
Preparation for a SOC 1 audit (SOC1 audit) under SSAE 18, including control objectives and the evidence your clients' external auditors will test.
SOC 2 consulting services for readiness, remediation and audit preparation, working as your SOC 2 compliance consultant alongside your IT, HR and operations leads.
A written breakdown of SOC 2 audit cost, SOC 2 report cost and SOC 2 compliance cost, with the audit fee explained separately from consulting, so you can budget the full cycle.
Guidance on how a SOC 2 audit firm and SOC 2 auditor work, and preparation for their walkthroughs, sampling and evidence requests, so audit week is predictable.
A SOC 2 gap assessment shows where your controls stand against the Trust Services Criteria before you pay for an audit, with a gap register, owners and a remediation order.
SOC 2 compliance is a programme, not a one-off report: controls, evidence and an annual audit. We set it up so SOC certification renewals get lighter each year.
A plain breakdown of SOC 2 certification cost and SOC 2 audit cost for a SOC 2 Type 2 audit, covering readiness work, the audit fee and your own time across the observation period.