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The most honest list of what to actually build: SSO with forced 2FA, protected branches, centralised logging, infrastructure as code, CloudTrail, device management and a vendor inventory. It also tells you which expensive things auditors do not need, which saves real money.
The SOC2 Starting Seven
From Latacora 20 min read
- Seven engineering moves cover most of SOC 2: SSO with forced 2FA, protected branches with PR review, centralized logging with alerts, Terraform for all infra, CloudTrail plus role assumption, MDM on laptops, and a vendor security spreadsheet.
- SSO tied to Okta or Google Cloud Identity clears dozens of access control line items at once.
- Protected branches plus automated deploys satisfy most of the change management section.
- The point is to do real engineering work that happens to produce evidence, not to write policy documents.
