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Operationalising SOC 2 Compliance in Your SDLC
Achieving and maintaining SOC 2 compliance requires continuous security validation throughout your development lifecycle. Cytix makes this possible by embedding automated security reviews, vulnerability assessment, and audit trail generation directly into your software development process. This ensures every change is evaluated for security implications, risks are identified and mitigated, and comprehensive evidence is maintained to demonstrate compliance to auditors.
SOC 2 Control Coverage & Cytix Capabilities
Below is a detailed breakdown of how Cytix maps to key controls within the 2017 Trusted Services Criteria (SOC 2), helping you operationalize and demonstrate compliance for critical security requirements.
2017 Trusted Services Criteria (SOC 2) Control Coverage Matrix: How Cytix Maps to Critical Security Controls
Clause
Requirement
Coverage
How Cytix Maps
CC3.1
Defines objectives and sub-objectives for security
Partial
Cytix assigns a security risk classification to each application change, establishing defined security sub-objectives at the change level based on functionality, data sensitivity, and attack surface impact.
CC3.2
Identifies risks to systems
Complete
Cytix continuously reviews 100% of application code changes using SDLC telemetry and contextual analysis to identify changes that could introduce exploitable security risk.
CC3.2
Identifies threats & vulnerabilities
Complete
Cytix analyzes code diffs, commit context, and affected components to identify security-sensitive behavior, highlighting potential vulnerabilities and attacker exploitation paths.
CC3.3
Considers fraud & misuse
Partial
Cytix identifies changes affecting authentication, authorization, privilege handling, and sensitive data processing that could enable misuse, abuse, or unauthorized system behavior.
CC3.4
Assesses changes to systems
Complete
Cytix performs automated security impact analysis on each system change, ensuring modifications to application logic are assessed for security implications prior to release.
CC5.1
Develops controls to mitigate risk
Complete
Cytix generates risk-driven security testing plans ("micro-pentests") designed to validate that identified risks are mitigated before deployment.
CC5.2
Technology security controls
Partial
Cytix evaluates changes affecting security-relevant functionality, including access control logic, cryptography, and externally exposed interfaces.
CC5.3
Policies & procedures implemented
Partial
Cytix embeds security review and testing activities directly into the SDLC workflow, ensuring documented procedures are consistently executed for each change.
CC7.2
Monitors vulnerabilities
Complete
Cytix performs continuous security testing of application changes to identify vulnerabilities as they are introduced.
CC7.4
Responds to vulnerabilities
Complete
Cytix tracks identified vulnerabilities through remediation workflows and verifies resolution status.
CC7.5
Remediates security issues
Complete
Cytix performs retesting to confirm remediation effectiveness and closure of security issues.
CC8.1
Change management process
Complete
Cytix automatically performs a documented security review for every code change integrated into the development workflow.
CC8.2
Authorized & tested changes
Complete
Cytix ensures changes identified as security-relevant undergo proportionate security testing prior to production deployment.
CC8.3
Prevents unauthorized changes
Partial
Cytix detects and flags high-risk or security-critical modifications, requiring investigation and resolution before release.
CC4.1
Ongoing monitoring
Complete
Cytix continuously monitors application security by assessing each change and recording review and testing outcomes as auditable evidence.
CC4.2
Corrective action
Complete
Cytix maintains tracked remediation records and supports corrective action validation through verified vulnerability closure.
Coverage Legend
Complete
Fully supported by Cytix capabilities
Partial
Partially supported with noted limitations
Frequently Asked Questions
How does Cytix help with SOC 2 compliance?
Cytix supports the SOC 2 controls that depend on how software change is handled. Each ticket, pull request and release is read for context, qualified for security relevance and routed to a proportionate response: more context, a review, a threat model or a test. The decision, rationale and outcome stay attached to the change that caused them, so the evidence auditors ask for builds as the work happens rather than being reconstructed at audit time.
Which SOC 2 criteria does Cytix map to?
Cytix maps to the Common Criteria of the AICPA Trust Services Criteria, across risk assessment (CC3), monitoring activities (CC4), control activities (CC5), system operations (CC7) and change management (CC8). These sit in the Security category, which every SOC 2 report includes. The mapping does not cover the optional Availability, Confidentiality, Processing Integrity or Privacy categories. The control matrix on this page shows which points Cytix covers fully and which partially.
How does Cytix support SOC 2 change management (CC8.1)?
CC8.1 asks that changes to infrastructure, data, software and procedures are designed or acquired, configured, documented, tested, approved and implemented. Cytix applies your own change policy to software changes as they move through the workflow. It qualifies whether a change matters, routes a proportionate response and records the decision against the change. Changes that need human attention are escalated to the people who own them, and your change process keeps the final say.
What SOC 2 evidence does Cytix produce?
For each software change, Cytix keeps the decision, the rationale behind it, the action taken and the outcome, including findings and fixes, attached to the change that caused them. That gives auditors one connected record for change management and vulnerability handling, instead of a trail pieced together from tickets, emails and old PDFs. Because the record updates as the software does, it reflects what happened during the audit period.
Does Cytix help with SOC 2 Type II audits?
Yes, for the controls it maps to. A Type II report tests whether controls operated effectively over an observation period, typically three to twelve months, whereas a Type I report looks at control design at a single point in time. Cytix records decisions and outcomes as each change happens, so evidence for change management and vulnerability handling accumulates across the whole period. Your auditor still sets the period and selects the samples.
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