Tidal Control incident
SOC 2 for startups: becoming compliant without losing speed
Resolved on March 2, 2026.
SOC 2 does not require a Change Advisory Board or approval committees. The standard asks that changes are reviewed and tested before they go live, which means a pull request with mandatory peer review and automated testing already qualifies as a valid change management process. Founders who experience SOC 2 as a brake almost always caused it themselves by copying enterprise processes that do not fit their scale. Integrating controls into existing development workflows, rather than running compliance as a parallel project, is what preserves deployment speed.
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- resolved Mar 02, 2026, 12:00 AM UTC
SOC 2 does not require a Change Advisory Board or approval committees. The standard asks that changes are reviewed and tested before they go live, which means a pull request with mandatory peer review and automated testing already qualifies as a valid change management process. Founders who experience SOC 2 as a brake almost always caused it themselves by copying enterprise processes that do not fit their scale. Integrating controls into existing development workflows, rather than running compliance as a parallel project, is what preserves deployment speed.
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