Understanding SOC2 + Cloud Compliance
SOC 2 is widely considered a technical audit. It requires companies to establish and follow strict information security policies and procedures, encompassing customer data security, availability, processing, integrity, and confidentiality. SOC 2 ensures that a company’s information security measures align with the unique parameters of today’s cloud requirements.
As companies increasingly leverage the cloud to store customer data, SOC 2 compliance is becoming a necessity for a wide variety of organizations. SOC 2 emphasizes monitoring unusual system activity, authorized and unauthorized system configuration changes, and user access levels to protect customer data from known and unknown threats. In the event of a security incident, corrective actions should be taken immediately, and sufficient anomaly alerting procedures must be in place. Detailed audits should be carried out periodically, and any issue found should be remediated without delay.
SOC 2 emphasizes periodic audits and remediation of any issues found. Cloudanix was precisely made to help you with this. Our automated audits perform various checks consisting of different rules on a wide variety of recipes that we provide to ensure your customer’s data is safe and you remain SOC 2 compliant.
Cloudanix Audit Recipes and Compliance Features
For instance, our AWS recipe of CloudFront Audit contains rules like Enable Geo Restriction, CloudFront Integrated with AWS WAF, Communication Encrypted using HTTPS, and many more.
These audit rules help you comply with the SOC2 CC6.1 clause. This clause states that the entity should implement logical access security software, infrastructure, and architectures over protected information assets to protect them from security events to meet the entity's objectives.
You can detect if you are violating SOC 2 and take corrective actions immediately by auditing these rules. All you have to do is sign up with Cloudanix. We will take care of your security audits and remediation of issues while building trust with your customers.
Just-In-Time Access for SOC 2 Trust Service Criteria
SOC 2's CC6.1 and CC6.2 criteria require logical and physical access controls that restrict access to authorized users. Cloudanix's Just-In-Time (JIT) access provides time-bound, temporary access to cloud resources across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI, ensuring that privileged access is granted only when needed and automatically revoked after use.
This zero-standing-privileges model aligns perfectly with SOC 2 requirements for access monitoring and control. Every access request is logged with approval workflows, providing the audit trail that SOC 2 auditors expect to see during their assessment.
Database Activity Monitoring (DAM) for SOC 2 Compliance
SOC 2's security and confidentiality criteria require organizations to protect sensitive customer data from unauthorized access. Cloudanix's DAM solution monitors database access in real-time across AWS RDS, Aurora, Azure SQL, Google Cloud SQL, and Oracle Cloud databases.
DAM detects anomalous queries, tracks who accessed what data and when, and maintains comprehensive audit logs that demonstrate compliance with SOC 2 CC6.1, CC6.6, and CC6.7 criteria. Automated alerting ensures immediate response to suspicious database activities that could compromise customer data.
Identity Governance for Human and Non-Human Identities
Modern cloud environments include thousands of identities — not just human users, but also service accounts, API keys, container workloads, serverless functions, and automated processes across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI.
Cloudanix provides comprehensive identity governance that addresses SOC 2 CC6.1 requirements by continuously monitoring all identity types, detecting excessive permissions, enforcing least-privilege access, and ensuring proper segregation of duties. This includes managing IAM roles, service principals, workload identities, and machine-to-machine authentication mechanisms across your multi-cloud infrastructure.
Continuous Misconfiguration Detection
SOC 2's CC7.1 and CC7.2 criteria require detection and mitigation of threats and processing deviations. Cloud misconfigurations are among the most common security threats, often leading to data breaches and compliance failures.
Cloudanix continuously scans your AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI environments for security misconfigurations including publicly exposed resources, unencrypted data stores, weak network controls, and disabled logging. Automated remediation capabilities fix critical issues immediately, while comprehensive reporting demonstrates your commitment to maintaining a secure configuration baseline — a key expectation in SOC 2 audits.
Workload Security Across the Application Stack
SOC 2 requires protection of customer data throughout the entire application lifecycle. Cloudanix secures cloud workloads including containers, Kubernetes clusters, serverless functions, and virtual machines across AWS ECS/EKS/Fargate, Azure Kubernetes Service, Google Kubernetes Engine, and OCI Container Engine.
Vulnerability scanning, runtime protection, network segmentation monitoring, and compliance checks ensure that your workloads meet SOC 2's processing integrity and confidentiality criteria. This comprehensive workload security helps you demonstrate to auditors that customer data is protected at every layer of your cloud infrastructure.
Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) for Supply Chain Trust
SOC 2 Type 2 reports increasingly consider software supply chain security as part of the overall trust framework. Cloudanix generates detailed SBOMs for your containerized applications and cloud workloads, providing complete visibility into software components, dependencies, and known vulnerabilities.
SBOM capabilities help you identify and remediate vulnerable packages before they can be exploited, maintain an accurate software inventory, and demonstrate due diligence in managing third-party code — all important considerations during SOC 2 audits, especially for SaaS companies handling sensitive customer data across multiple cloud platforms.
