How to Pass SOC 2 CC6 Privileged Access Controls — A Practical Guide
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SOC 2 Type II readiness is a marathon. Most organizations get through the policy documentation, the vendor risk questionnaires, and the network segmentation diagrams without too much pain. Then they hit CC6 — Logical and Physical Access Controls — and the audit gets difficult.
CC6 is where auditors spend the most time and where companies most often receive exceptions. It covers who has access to your systems, how that access is controlled, how it is monitored, and how it is reviewed. If your privileged access management answer is "we use VPN plus RDP with shared admin credentials," you are not going to pass.
Here is exactly what CC6 requires, what auditors ask for, and how to produce the evidence.