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Aligning NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation and SOC 2 for Efficient Compliance

Andrios Robert

• 1 min read

The New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) Cybersecurity Regulation is exact. If you handle financial data from New York residents, you must meet its requirements. This includes risk assessments, documented policies, encryption of nonpublic information, incident response plans, and continuous monitoring.

SOC 2 compliance shares similar goals but comes from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). SOC 2 focuses on five Trust Service Criteria: security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy. Unlike NYDFS, SOC 2 is a voluntary attestation, but for many companies it is essential for credibility and business deals.

The two frameworks overlap in key areas:

  • Access control: Role-based permissions, strong authentication, and account reviews.
  • Audit logging: Capturing user actions, system changes, and data access in immutable logs.
  • Data encryption: Protecting data at rest and in transit with strong cryptography.
  • Risk assessment: Identifying threats, vulnerabilities, and the impact on operations.
  • Incident response: Documented, practiced plans to react to and recover from breaches.

For engineering teams, the challenge is operationalizing both NYDFS and SOC 2 without duplicating effort. That means mapping control requirements, automating compliance checks, and ensuring security practices are baked into the workflow. A single control can often satisfy both regimes if designed with rigor—an audited change management pipeline can meet SOC 2’s Processing Integrity criteria and NYDFS’s system monitoring requirements.

Automated tooling accelerates this process. APIs for compliance evidence, real-time dashboards, and lightweight enforcement hooks integrate with CI/CD systems. Without automation, audits consume months. With automation, they become part of daily development.

Noncompliance under NYDFS can mean fines, enforcement actions, and public disclosure. Failing SOC 2 can mean lost deals and broken trust. Meeting both sets of requirements protects your company’s systems, reputation, and future.

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