Affiliate entrepreneurs stay and die by their information. Conversion particulars, bank card numbers, contact data — all of it flows by the efficiency ecosystem, each second of every single day.
At TUNE, we respect the duty that comes with this information. We additionally acknowledge how necessary it’s to our prospects to make sure it’s correct, safe, and confidential.
We’re subsequently happy to announce TUNE has accomplished one other profitable audit of our system and group controls, assuring the provision, processing integrity, safety, confidentiality, and privateness of buyer information. This newest audit marks the fifth consecutive 12 months TUNE has earned SOC 2 Sort II certification, and the third consecutive 12 months TUNE has earned SOC 1 Sort II certification.
SOC 2 Sort II Certification Outlined
SOC stands for System and Group Controls, a set of providers supplied as a part of the American Institute of CPAs’ (AICPA) reporting platform.
In layman’s phrases, SOC 2 audits study and consider the operational controls of a enterprise. They require an organization to doc and adjust to complete data safety insurance policies and procedures, amongst different duties. The ensuing report provides events the data and perception wanted to decide about working with that enterprise.
From the AICPA web site:
“SOC 2 stories are supposed to satisfy the wants of a broad vary of customers that want detailed data and assurance in regards to the controls at a service group related to safety, availability, and processing integrity of the methods the service group makes use of to course of customers’ information and the confidentiality and privateness of the data processed by these methods.”
SOC 1 Sort II Certification Outlined
SOC 1 audits deal with person entities, testing their related inside controls over monetary reporting system design and working effectiveness. We see the suggestions loop from periodic third-party critiques corresponding to these, particularly once they deal with each the TUNE platform and TUNE Pay, our funds system, as one of the simplest ways to boost our present product and operations.
To earn a Sort II report, an organization should bear testing over an prolonged time frame. (Sort I stories check solely a single second in time.) TUNE’s common audit interval for SOC 2 and SOC 1 covers 12 months, demonstrating our ongoing effort to uphold the Belief Companies Ideas.
Beginning with our first audit, we’ve at all times voluntarily pursued the extra demanding and complete Sort II report, somewhat than the Sort I report. Sort II stories for each audits sign that our prospects can count on excessive requirements throughout TUNE’s operational, information safety, and privateness practices, in addition to stringent change administration controls all through our software program growth life cycle.
Our Dedication to High quality
Utilizing an unbiased third-party to audit these controls is an funding firms don’t take frivolously. A SOC audit is, by its nature, an invasive, arduous course of designed to compel an organization on a wide range of ranges, requiring lively worker engagement and diligence throughout a broad swath of the group. It’s a course of we’re proud to undertake.
As with our prior SOC audits, TUNE’s auditors decided that our controls have been successfully designed and adopted all through the audit interval. We intend to maintain our investments in customer-centric compliance within the years to come back.
Related parts of each stories can be found upon request to [email protected] for TUNE prospects in addition to prospects underneath a present non-disclosure settlement.
Creator
Blake Harps at present serves as TUNE’s Director of Engineering. Having began as TUNE’s first Database Administrator in 2011, Blake brings a ardour for constructing dependable and scalable software program to the group. Based mostly in Seattle, you’ll find him eagerly awaiting snowfall within the Cascades, lining as much as get first tracks at Crystal Mountain.