At some point in every vendor diligence file there is a SOC 2 report — 80 pages of auditor prose that almost nobody reads, filed as proof that somebody did. A SOC 2 logo on a trust page does real work precisely because the report behind it so often goes unread. Here is how I work through one in half an hour, in the order that saves you the most time.
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