P6.3 Record of unauthorised disclosures and breaches
A full, correct and up-to-date log of detected or reported unauthorised disclosures, including breaches, of personal information is created and kept. Point of focus: the record of detected or reported unauthorised disclosures is maintained completely, accurately and promptly.
Source: SOC 2 (2017 Trust Services Criteria), P6.3. The statement above is our statement of the clause, read from the published text and cited so you can check it against the official text, not the instrument verbatim. Open SOC 2 (2017 Trust Services Criteria) in the compliance library.
These are criteria, not controls: you design controls that meet them, and which criteria are in scope follows the categories your report covers (Security always; Availability, Confidentiality, Processing Integrity and Privacy only if chosen). A Type 2 report tests that the controls operated across the period, so the evidence asked for is samples across that period, not one copy.
These are the artefacts auditors commonly ask for on this requirement, our guidance rather than text from the standard. Your assessor decides what is sufficient in your context, and asks for samples across the period when a report covers one.
system holds itEvidence a system already holds
none for this control
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
none for this control
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Breach and unauthorised disclosure register · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Link from incident records to breach register entries · Policy repository / GRC workspace
First move
Common gaps auditors find
- Minor disclosures handled but never recorded
- Register not reconciled to the incident system
Do this for your whole sheet
Paste the rows you run your controls from and get this mapping for every control at once, with the periodic-review ones flagged and a first move per row. No account for the first run.
Build my evidence sheetP6.2 Record of authorised disclosures · P6.4 Privacy commitments from vendors and third parties