Readiness assessment
How ready are you for your first audit?
Eight questions, about five minutes. You'll get a readiness score out of 100, your gaps ranked by how much they matter, and a realistic range of weeks to prepare.
An estimate, not an audit
The score comes from your answers alone, using the weights described below. Only an independent auditor can tell you whether your controls meet a framework's requirements.
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Question 1 of 8
Readiness check
Your readiness
Early stage
Estimated preparation · SOC 2
0–0 weeks
Your deadline
Realistic
Where to start
This estimate covers preparation only. Audit fieldwork, any observation period and your auditor's schedule come on top, and your auditor decides the outcome. Not legal advice.
Method
How the score and range are worked out
Five areas carry the score, 20 points each: cloud setup, written policies, sign-in and MFA, logging and vendor reviews. They are the areas where first audits most often find gaps.
Each answer also adds weeks of work. The range starts from a typical preparation time for your target framework, adds those weeks (half as much again at the top of the range), and scales for company size: 1.15× for 51–200 people, 1.35× for 201–1,000 and 1.6× above that.
Gaps are ranked by points missing. High priority means 10 or more points missing in an area.