Just to clarify, this is a bugbear of mine. It's nothing personal with you, but I've spent the last 6 years or so evangelizing the idea that people should minimize their SOC2s and not get pushed around by auditors or evidence collection platforms like Vanta, because that drives a lot of terrible security engineering, and the hypercompetent best-staffed security orgs in the industry all push their SOC2 auditors around.

Compliance and security are entirely different practices in a well-run firm. Security can inform compliance. Compliance should not inform security engineering.

If you search my name and "SOC2" in the search bar below, I've expanded on this quite a bit.

tptacek just hates soc. its probably not personal.