SOC 2 Compliance
Dependency Security for Trust Service Criteria
SOC 2 audits evaluate your organization's controls across five Trust Service Criteria. Vulnerable dependencies can directly impact your Security, Availability, and Processing Integrity controls.
Overview
SOC 2 (System and Organization Controls 2) is a compliance framework developed by the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) for service organizations. It focuses on five Trust Service Criteria: Security, Availability, Processing Integrity, Confidentiality, and Privacy. For software companies, dependency vulnerabilities represent a significant risk to meeting these criteria. A single vulnerable package in your supply chain can expose customer data, enable unauthorized access, or disrupt service availability. Auditors increasingly ask about vulnerability management processes, including how you identify, prioritize, and remediate security issues in third-party code. DepShield provides the tooling and evidence trail you need to demonstrate effective vulnerability management during your SOC 2 audit.
Key Requirements & How DepShield Helps
Logical Access Security
The entity implements logical access security software, infrastructure, and architectures to protect information assets from security events.
How DepShield helps: DepShield identifies vulnerabilities that could enable unauthorized access, such as authentication bypasses or privilege escalation issues. The CISA KEV integration highlights actively exploited vulnerabilities that pose immediate risk to access controls.
System Monitoring
The entity uses detection and monitoring procedures to identify anomalies that could indicate security incidents.
How DepShield helps: Regular dependency scanning with DepShield provides continuous monitoring of your software supply chain. The evidence trail with timestamps and checksums creates an audit log proving ongoing security monitoring.
Incident Response
The entity evaluates security events to determine whether they constitute security incidents.
How DepShield helps: DepShield's severity scoring and KEV flagging helps triage vulnerabilities by actual risk, enabling faster incident classification. The dependency graph shows which components are affected and their blast radius.
Change Management
The entity authorizes, designs, develops, tests, and implements changes to meet its objectives.
How DepShield helps: SBOM generation documents your software composition at any point in time. Before deploying changes, scan updated dependencies to identify newly introduced vulnerabilities.
Risk Mitigation
The entity identifies, assesses, and manages risks to the achievement of its objectives.
How DepShield helps: DepShield's risk-based prioritization using CVSS scores and CISA KEV data demonstrates a systematic approach to identifying and assessing software supply chain risks.
Benefits for SOC 2 Compliance
Generate audit evidence showing systematic vulnerability identification
Demonstrate risk-based prioritization methodology to auditors
Maintain timestamped proof of security scanning activities
Export SBOM documentation for software composition transparency
Show remediation tracking with before/after scan comparisons
Satisfy vendor management requirements with third-party code visibility
Stay ahead of compliance risks
Get notified when new vulnerabilities are discovered that could impact your SOC 2 compliance posture.
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