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Criterion CC7.4The entity responds to identified security incidents by executing a defined incident-response program to understand, contain, remediate, and communicate security incidents, as appropriate.

What it says

The entity responds to identified security incidents by executing a defined incident-response program to understand, contain, remediate, and communicate security incidents, as appropriate.

SOC 2, the trust services criteria, CC7.4

What is in the packs for this

From SOC 2 Report Readiness. Each one helps with this requirement.

  • Excel

    Trust Services Criteria Response Register

    The register has a row for this criterion, for you to write down your own controls, owners and evidence against it. Lists the 61 Trust Services Criteria by number and series title, with blank columns for your own controls, owners and evidence. It makes no coverage claim.
  • Excel

    Observation Period & Exceptions Calendar

    Its Framework References cite this criterion. Dates the observation period, the evidence points inside it, any exceptions found and the management responses, and the dates for bridge letters.

Criterion text: 2017 Trust Services Criteria (with revised points of focus, 2022). © 2022 Association of International Certified Professional Accountants. All rights reserved. COSO principles © 2019 Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). All rights reserved. Reproduced from copies of AICPA's published text, which come from two lineages (the AICPA document in two versions, and one structured-data publisher) and agree across them; check it against AICPA's own before relying on it.