Update your settings

Cloud infrastructures are the backbone of online business today, and it is necessary to ensure effective security. Indian companies are readily embracing SOC 2 Compliance and Red Team Assessment Services to fully protect sensitive data, foster customer confidence, and comply with global security standards. But how do the two effective security strategies differ? And, what's more important, how can they work together to provide total validation of your cloud security controls?

What is SOC 2 Compliance in India? 

Service Organization Control Type 2 (SOC 2) is a globally recognized framework for assessing an organization's information security policies and procedures. SOC 2 focuses on five trust principles: security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy.

When a company achieves SOC 2 Compliance in India, it indicates that the company has effective controls to protect client data and responsibly manage risk. SOC 2 audits are of utmost importance for SaaS providers, cloud service providers, and organizations that process a large volume of customer data.

Collaborating with SOC 2 consultants based in India ensures that your compliance journey is efficient, methodical, and structured, from control gap assessments to readiness reviews and audit preparation. However, SOC 2 is about substantiating that you have internal processes and a system of internal controls, but it does not assess how well that system of internal controls, designed by you, performs in an attack simulation. This is where Red Team Assessments come into play.

What Is a Red Team Assessment?

A Red Team Assessment is an advanced cybersecurity experience that simulates real-world attacks to evaluate an organization’s capacity to detect, respond to, and mitigate threats. Unlike traditional penetration tests that involve identifying vulnerabilities, Red Team Assessment Services in India closely emulate real-world threat actors targeting your key assets. 

The Red Team Assessment Methodology comprises a combination of social engineering, phishing simulations, network exploitation, and attempts to achieve privilege escalation—all aimed at analyzing the effectiveness of your defenses, detection, and incident response. 

With the introduction of Red Team On-Demand Assessment options, your organization can get continuous security validation outside of the annual security test. This will help security teams be prepared and proactive for threats that are still in the emergence stage.

Red Team vs. SOC 2

SOC 2 Compliance aligns your organization with the proper security controls as part of its engagement for readiness, while Red Team Assessments assess whether those controls function against actual attacks. Their dual approach tackles security assurance from two different perspectives: 

By working with SOC 2 consultants in India and implementing Red Team assessments, organizations can continue to move forward along the security readiness continuum from compliance to awareness to readiness. 

Work With Cyberquess

At Cyberquess, we provide SOC 2 compliance in India and Red Team Assessment Services according to your organization’s requirements. Our specialists utilize cutting-edge tools and the tried-and-tested Red Team Assessment Methodology to identify security blind spots and deepen your cyber resilience.

Whether you’re preparing for an upcoming audit as a cloud service provider or trying to validate your security posture as an enterprise customer via Red Team On-Demand Assessments, Cyberquess ensures you achieve compliance and confidence.

Contact Cyberquess today to schedule your Red Team On-Demand Assessment or start your SOC 2 compliance journey.