P6.6 Notifying breaches and incidents

Affected individuals, regulators and others are told of breaches and incidents as privacy objectives require. Points of focus: a process determines whether a privacy breach must be notified, by what method, by when and to whom (added in 2022); and notice of breaches and incidents is given to affected individuals, regulators and others.

Source: SOC 2 (2017 Trust Services Criteria), P6.6. 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.