eScribe Achieves SOC 2 Type 2 Certified Compliance

  • By: Brennan Ward
  • March 18, 2025

 

Unmatched Data Security: eScribe’s SOC 2 Type 2 certified compliance, backed by a rigorous independent audit, ensures your sensitive data is protected by industry-leading security standards, giving you peace of mind in an era of rising cyber risk. 

Trust You Can Rely On: eScribe’s proactive compliance with SOC 2 Type 2,  demonstrates an unwavering commitment to safeguarding your information, so you can focus on delivering effective municipal meetings without worry. 

Seamless Privacy, Built-In: With privacy-by-design principles and a secure Microsoft Azure-encrypted platform, eScribe delivers robust data protection effortlessly—saving you time and effort while ensuring compliance and confidentiality. 

Announcement 

At eScribe, we are committed to keeping your organization’s data secure and confidential. Every capability and feature we create to support more effective public meeting management adheres to and practices privacy by design and privacy by default principles. 

Strict adherence to data privacy, security, and confidentiality is one reason we’re excited to share that eScribe recently earned accreditation as a SOC 2 Type II-compliant organization. This comprehensive audit process, provided by independent auditor A-LIGN, demonstrates that eScribe comprehensively and proactively protects customer and user data as a company and software platform.   

Within cloud computing, managed IT services, and software/SaaS, a successful SOC 2 Type II audit is considered one of the leading standards for handling, storing, or transmitting data in a highly secure and confidential way. This certification applies to all secure data handling and transmission protocols practiced by eScribe as a company, the eScribe software platform itself, as well as any affiliated second- or third-party systems, software or service providers used by eScribe, such as its highly secure Microsoft Azure code base. It also covers holistic data security practices, such as security features in physical spaces at eScribe headquarters and mandatory security and privacy training for employees.    

eScribe’s SOC 2 Type II compliance investment represents more than 600 dedicated work hours from its cybersecurity, IT support, governance, risk, and compliance teams. We’re proud to make an investment on behalf of customers and users to ensure they can continue to confidently rely on eScribe for simplified and secure public sector meeting management.  

What is SOC 2 Type II?   

SOC refers to the Systems and Organization Controls standards defined by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). SOC 2 Type II is a comprehensive certification demonstrating a company’s ability to securely manage and protect sensitive customer and client data over an extended period. This certification is significant for organizations handling customer information, especially in industries like cloud computing, managed IT services, and SaaS (Software as a Service). 

 

Questions about your eScribe account or security measures we employ? Contact your Customer Success Manager today.

Want to learn more about how to enhance your municipal organization’s cybersecurity? Join our webinar “Cybersecurity Essentials for Municipalities” on March 26 with cybersecurity experts Chris Hetner and Anthony Carter.