Executive Summary
This is a named client story, published with Microcare’s consent. Microcare Technology Pvt Ltd needed ISO 27001 and SOC 2 assurance plus security testing — the exact combination where duplicated effort wastes quarters. The engagement ran January to May as one programme: implementation and hardening gaps closed once, evidence mapped to both frameworks, VAPT feeding both.
Client Overview
Microcare Technology Pvt Ltd is an Indian technology company. The engagement combined ISO 27001, SOC 2 and VAPT into one delivery programme.
- Client: Microcare Technology Pvt Ltd (named with consent)
- Industry: Technology
- Region: India
- Scope: ISO 27001 + SOC 2 + VAPT
- Timeline: January – May
Challenge
Microcare came in with implementation and hardening gaps — the distance between controls as documented and controls as operated, measured against ISO 27001 and the SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria.
- Implementation gaps between documented and operating controls
- Hardening gaps across in-scope systems
- Two assurance frameworks with overlapping but differently-expressed demands
- Security testing required to evidence both
Objectives
- Close the implementation and hardening gaps once
- Map one control set to ISO 27001 Annex A and the SOC 2 criteria
- Run VAPT with remediation feeding both evidence bases
- Reach audit readiness across both frameworks in one pass
Our Approach
1. Combined Gap Assessment
One assessment against ISO 27001 and SOC 2 simultaneously, so every finding carried both mappings.
2. Implementation & Hardening
Closed the gap between documented and operating controls; hardened in-scope systems with evidence captured once.
3. VAPT & Remediation
Testing with remediation and retest, feeding the ISO and SOC 2 evidence sets from one exercise.
4. Audit-Ready Delivery
Delivered the programme audit-ready across both frameworks, January to May.
Solution
- Single gap assessment double-mapped to ISO 27001 and SOC 2
- Implementation and hardening gaps closed with shared evidence capture
- VAPT executed with remediation and retest across the scope
- Audit-ready delivery across both frameworks in one programme
Results
- Implementation and hardening gaps closed
- SOC 2 report issued; ISO 27001 audit-ready from the same evidence base
- VAPT findings remediated and retest-verified
- Kickoff to audit-ready in five months (January–May)
Timelines and outcomes reflect the documented engagement record for this client; results vary with scope and readiness.
What We Delivered
- Unified control framework mapped across all in-scope frameworks
- Single evidence repository serving every audit from one collection effort
- Per-framework gap assessments and remediation orchestration
- Coordinated audit calendar across assessors and jurisdictions
- Consolidated compliance reporting for leadership
The standard artefact set for this engagement type; per-client environment and architecture details are shared under NDA during procurement, not published.
Lessons Learned
- One control, many mappings: building the control once and expressing it per framework cut the evidence burden roughly in proportion to the number of frameworks.
- The audit calendar was the constraint to optimise — sequencing assessments so evidence windows overlapped avoided repeating collection.
- Jurisdictional differences concentrated in data-residency and reporting duties; the control layer stayed common, the paperwork localised.
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