P6.5 Vendor commitments to report unauthorised disclosures

Outside parties, vendors included, that can reach personal information commit to notify the organisation of actual or suspected unauthorised disclosures; notifications reach the right people and are handled under incident response procedures. Points of focus: remedial action follows misuse by a third party; and a process obtains commitments from vendors to report actual or suspected unauthorised disclosures.

Source: SOC 2 (2017 Trust Services Criteria), P6.5. 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.