What is SOC 2, what's the difference between Type I and Type II, and what will a customer's security review ask you for?

SOC 2 fluency is the price of admission to enterprise deals, and interviewers check it with two traps: what a SOC 2 report actually proves, and what it doesn't. Engineers who can read one are rarer than you'd think.

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