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• Your Essential SOC 2 Compliance Checklist

  11 mars, par Daniel Crough — Privacy, Security

  With cloud-hosted applications becoming the norm, organisations face increasing data security and compliance challenges. SOC 2 (System and Organisation Controls 2) provides a structured framework for addressing these challenges. Established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), SOC 2 has become a critical standard for demonstrating trustworthiness to clients and partners.

  A well-structured SOC 2 compliance checklist serves as your roadmap to successful audits and effective security practices. In this post, we’ll walk through the essential steps to achieve SOC 2 compliance and explain how proper analytics practices play a crucial role in maintaining this important certification.

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  What is SOC 2 compliance ?

  SOC 2 compliance applies to service organisations that handle sensitive customer data. While not mandatory, this certification builds significant trust with customers and partners.

  According to the AICPA, “SOC 2 reports are intended to meet the needs of a broad range of users that need detailed information and assurance about the controls at a service organisation relevant to security, availability, and processing integrity of the systems the service organisation uses to process users’ data and the confidentiality and privacy of the information processed by these systems.“

  At its core, SOC 2 helps organisations protect customer data through five fundamental principles : security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy.

  Think of it as a seal of approval that tells customers, “We take data protection seriously, and here’s the evidence.”

  Companies undergo SOC 2 audits to evaluate their compliance with these standards. During these audits, independent auditors assess internal controls over data security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy.

  What is a SOC 2 compliance checklist ?

  A SOC 2 compliance checklist is a comprehensive guide that outlines all the necessary steps and controls an organisation needs to implement to achieve SOC 2 certification. It covers essential areas including :

  • Security policies and procedures
  • Access control measures
  • Risk assessment protocols
  • Incident response plans
  • Disaster recovery procedures
  • Vendor management practices
  • Data encryption standards
  • Network security controls

  SOC 2 compliance checklist benefits

  A structured SOC 2 compliance checklist offers several significant advantages :

  Preparedness

  Preparing for a SOC 2 examination involves many complex elements. A checklist provides a clear, structured path, breaking the process into manageable tasks that ensure nothing is overlooked.

  Resource optimisation

  A comprehensive checklist reduces time spent identifying requirements, minimises costly mistakes and oversights, and enables more precise budget planning for the compliance process.

  Better team alignment

  A SOC 2 checklist establishes clear responsibilities for team members and maintains consistent understanding across all departments, helping align internal processes with industry standards.

  Risk reduction

  Following a SOC 2 compliance checklist significantly reduces the risk of compliance violations. Systematically reviewing internal controls provides opportunities to catch security gaps early, mitigating the risk of data breaches and unauthorised access.

  Audit readiness

  A well-maintained checklist simplifies audit preparation, reduces stress during the audit process, and accelerates the certification timeline.

  Business growth

  A successful SOC 2 audit demonstrates your organisation’s commitment to data security, which can be decisive in winning new business, especially with enterprise clients who require this certification from their vendors.

  Challenges in implementing SOC 2

  Implementing SOC 2 presents several significant challenges :

  Time-intensive documentation

  Maintaining accurate records throughout the SOC 2 compliance process requires diligence and attention to detail. Many organisations struggle to compile comprehensive documentation of all controls, policies and procedures, leading to delays and increased costs.

  Incorrect scoping of the audit

  Misjudging the scope can result in unnecessary expenses and extended timelines. Including too many systems complicates the process and diverts resources from critical areas.

  Maintaining ongoing compliance

  After achieving initial compliance, continuous monitoring becomes essential but is often neglected. Regular internal control audits can be overwhelming, especially for smaller organisations without dedicated compliance teams.

  Resource constraints

  Many organisations lack sufficient resources to dedicate to compliance efforts. This limitation can lead to staff burnout or reliance on expensive external consultants.

  Employee resistance

  Staff members may view new security protocols as unnecessary hurdles. Employees who aren’t adequately trained on SOC 2 requirements might inadvertently compromise compliance efforts through improper data handling.

  Analytics and SOC 2 compliance : A critical relationship

  One often overlooked aspect of SOC 2 compliance is the handling of analytics data. User behaviour data collection directly impacts multiple Trust Service Criteria, particularly privacy and confidentiality.

  Why analytics matters for SOC 2

  Standard analytics platforms often collect significant amounts of personal data, creating potential compliance risks :

  1. Privacy concerns : Many analytics tools collect personal information without proper consent mechanisms
  2. Data ownership issues : When analytics data is processed on third-party servers, maintaining control becomes challenging
  3. Confidentiality risks : Analytics data might be shared with advertising networks or other third parties
  4. Processing integrity questions : When data is transformed or aggregated by third parties, verification becomes difficult

  How Matomo supports SOC 2 compliance

  

  Matomo’s privacy-first analytics approach directly addresses these concerns :

  1. Complete data ownership : With Matomo, all analytics data remains under your control, either on your own servers or in a dedicated cloud instance
  2. Consent management : Built-in tools for managing user consent align with privacy requirements
  3. Data minimisation : Configurable anonymisation features help reduce collection of sensitive personal data
  4. Transparency : Clear documentation of data flows supports audit requirements
  5. Configurable data retention : Set automated data deletion schedules to comply with your policies

  By implementing Matomo as part of your SOC 2 compliance strategy, you address key requirements while maintaining the valuable insights your organisation needs for growth.

  Conclusion

  A SOC 2 compliance checklist helps organisations meet critical security and privacy standards. By taking a methodical approach to compliance and implementing privacy-respecting analytics, you can build trust with customers while protecting sensitive data.

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• Grafika and OpenGL to record a video on android in square shape

  3 octobre 2015, par Cédric Portmann

  I am currently trying to record a video in square shape and create a output as .mp4. It seems to be really challenging. I tried diffrent approches including : OnPreviewFrame and FFMpeg. But never got a satisfing result. Today i found Grafika. And it seems to be the right way. But because of the complextity of the Code i am stuck now. Using the Example : CameraCaptureActivity.java i managed to record a video. But its shape is rectangluar and not square. Furthermore the camera is rotated by 90 degrees. I was already trying to manipulate certain parameters but never got a good video. Some where squeezed and so on.

  Does anybody know what parameters i need to change inside Grafikas example to get the right result ?
  In the end the camera of my android phone should record Videos like Vine or Instagram.

  Thanks for your help !

• avcodec : disallow hwaccel with frame threads

  23 octobre 2015, par Hendrik Leppkes

  avcodec : disallow hwaccel with frame threads
  HWAccels with frame threads are fundamentally flawed in avcodecs current
  
  design, and there are several known problems ranging from image corruption
  
  to driver crashes.
  These problems come down to two design problems in the interaction of
  
  threads and HWAccel decoding :
  (1)
  
  While avcodec prevents parallel decoding and as such simultaneous access
  
  to the hardware accelerator from the decoding threads, it cannot account
  
  for the user code and its access to the hardware surfaces and the hardware
  
  itself.
  This can result in image corruption or even driver crashes if the
  
  user code locks image surfaces while they are being used by the decoder
  
  threads as reference frames.
  The current HWAccel API does not offer any way to ensure exclusive access
  
  to the hardware or the surfaces if frame threading is used.
  (2)
  
  Initialization of the HWAccel with frame threads is non-trivial, and many
  
  decoders had and still have issues that cause excess calls to the
  
  get_format callback.
  This will potentially cause duplicate HWAccel initialization, which in
  
  extreme cases can even lead to driver crashes if the HWAccel is
  
  re-initialized while the user code is actively accessing the hardware
  
  surfaces associated with it, or lead to image corruption due to lost
  
  reference frames.
  While both of these issues are solvable, fixing (1) would at least require
  
  a huge API redesign which would move a lot of complexity into the user
  
  code.
  The only reason the combination of frame threads and HWAccel was
  
  considered useful is to allow a seamless fallback to multi-threaded
  
  software decoding if the HWAccel is not available, however the issues
  
  outlined above far outweigh this.
  The proper solution for a fallback is to re-open the AVCodecContext with
  
  threading enabled if the HWAccel failed, which is a practice commonly used
  
  by various user applications using avcodec today already.
  Reviewed-by : Gwenole Beauchesne <gb.devel@gmail.com>
  
  Reviewed-by : wm4 <nfxjfg@googlemail.com>
  
  Signed-off-by : Hendrik Leppkes <h.leppkes@gmail.com>
  

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