The Challenge
A growth-stage payment processing SaaS with 50 employees had multiple enterprise-level deals delayed in procurement. The prospects demanded a SOC 2 Type II report before final onboarding could proceed.
The company lacked formal security policy documentation, had manual deployment loops that lacked evidence tracking, and had not implemented continuous security monitoring. They needed an audit-ready architecture immediately to unblock their sales pipeline.
Our Scoping Approach & Solution
Cyberlux Consulting served as the outsourced GRC engineering team to automate control mechanisms and guide their developers through readiness checks:
- Continuous Monitoring Integration: Connected API scanners directly to their AWS and GitHub profiles. This immediately flagged infrastructure configuration drifts, missing databases backups, and unencrypted volumes.
- Automated Evidence Mapping: Configured branch protection rules on GitHub and linked ticketing boards (Jira) to pull approvals automatically, establishing a reliable, automated changelog.
- Pre-Audit Dry Runs: Conducted a complete mock audit run to sample employee onboarding controls, change approvals, and backup telemetry, addressing 4 potential exceptions before the official CPA audit window.
Key Metrics & Outcome
- Control Exception Count: 0 control deviations reported (100% clean report).
- Control Mapping: 42 Trust Services Criteria controls structured and verified.
- Sales Impact: Unblocked and closed $12M in pending enterprise contract pipelines.
- Evidence Collection: Automated 92% of the collection work, reducing developer compliance overhead to less than 2 hours/month.
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- Industry: FinTech
- Company Size: 50 Employees
- Scope: SOC 2 Type II Audit
- Outcome: Zero Exceptions