Crowe Global

Who is Crowe?

Crowe LLP is a top-10 U.S. public accounting and consulting firm, founded in 1942, that issues SOC reports through its IT Assurance practice inside the broader Audit and Assurance service line.

Crowe LLP is also an independent member of Crowe Global, a Swiss verein and one of the larger global accounting networks, made up of more than 200 independent accounting and advisory firms across 130+ countries. For a SOC 2 buyer, that distinction matters: Crowe LLP performs and signs the U.S. SOC 1/SOC 2/SOC 3 engagement, while Crowe Global is the international umbrella that lets a Crowe LLP client coordinate parallel attestation, tax, and advisory work through Crowe member firms abroad without switching providers. Crowe’s SOC practice sits alongside dedicated PCI DSS and HITRUST assessment teams, so a company that needs more than one attestation can plausibly consolidate them under one firm.

Crowe’s natural SOC 2 buyer is a mid-market or larger company — often with international operations, regulated data (healthcare, financial services), or multiple compliance obligations stacking up at once — rather than an early-stage startup buying its first, single-framework report. Crowe LLP employs several thousand professionals across the U.S.

What credentials does Crowe actually hold?

Crowe LLP is a licensed CPA firm and AICPA member enrolled in the AICPA Peer Review Program, the profession’s mandatory independent quality check on a firm’s accounting and auditing practice.

Crowe’s most recent peer review, dated October 16, 2025, resulted in a pass for the review period April 1, 2024 through March 31, 2025 — a recent, clean result buyers can verify directly on the AICPA’s public peer review search. That is the baseline “is this a legitimate auditor” answer, and for a firm of Crowe’s size it is table stakes rather than a differentiator — but it is the fact a vendor-security reviewer will actually check.

Two named partners lead the SOC reporting practice on Crowe’s own services page: Jaclyn Dettloff, Partner, IT Assurance, and Scott Hicks, Partner, IT Assurance — both listed as points of contact for SOC engagements.

What SOC reports does Crowe issue?

Crowe issues the full range of SOC report types: SOC 1 (Type I and Type II, for controls affecting a customer’s financial reporting), SOC 2 (Type I and Type II, against the AICPA’s Trust Services Criteria — security, availability, confidentiality, processing integrity, and privacy), SOC 2+ (a SOC 2 report layered with additional control sets such as NIST or HIPAA

in a single report), SOC 3 (a public-facing, high-level version of SOC 2 suitable for marketing use), and SOC for Cybersecurity (an enterprise-level view of cybersecurity risk management, broader than SOC 2’s service-specific scope). Crowe also offers readiness assessments ahead of a first examination, custom controls examinations for organizations that need flexibility outside the standard SOC 2 criteria, and agreed-upon procedures (AUP) engagements for a single stakeholder’s specific, pre-defined test procedures. Engagement tracking runs through Crowe’s own client portal, Crowe Secure Information Exchange, rather than a third-party GRC tool.

Does Crowe assess HITRUST?

Crowe runs HITRUST e1, i1, and r2 validated assessments and sits on the HITRUST Authorized External Assessor Council. PCI QSA ROCs are a separate practice, not a combined certificate.

Separately, Crowe’s PCI compliance practice performs QSA-led PCI DSS Reports on Compliance (ROC) for organizations requiring formal validation, plus Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) support and PCI scoping workshops for organizations still defining their cardholder-data environment. For a company juggling SOC 2 alongside HITRUST or PCI DSS, Crowe can plausibly run more than one of those engagements under one relationship — though each remains a separate assessment with its own scope and timeline.

Can Crowe audit international entities?

The differentiator worth weighing Crowe against a boutique SOC 2 specialist for is coordination across borders. Crowe Global’s 200+ member firms across 130+ countries mean a U.S. parent with subsidiaries or data centers in other jurisdictions can, in principle, route related work — local statutory audits, tax, advisory — through Crowe firms in those countries alongside the U.S.

SOC 2 issued by Crowe LLP. That is a genuinely different value proposition from a single-office SOC 2 boutique: fewer vendor relationships to manage for an organization that is already multinational, not a shortcut to a single combined report. Crowe Global is a network of separate, independent legal entities, not one firm operating globally — read the coordination benefit as fewer vendors and shared account context, not a single global engagement letter.

How does Crowe handle auditor independence?

Crowe’s cybersecurity and technology consulting practice sits alongside its attest (audit) practice, and Crowe does not publish penetration testing as part of the same SOC reporting page as its attestation services.

If your compliance roadmap requires a penetration test alongside a SOC 2, confirm which Crowe practice — or which separate firm — performs it, and keep it institutionally separate from the team issuing your SOC 2 opinion. Under AICPA independence rules, an auditor that evaluates a control environment it also built or tested for the same client risks a self-review threat; the safer posture is scoping the pen test with a different provider, or verifying Crowe maintains a structural firewall between the two functions before assuming a bundled engagement is clean.

How much does a Crowe SOC 2 audit cost?

Crowe does not publish SOC 2 pricing. Our own estimated range for a Crowe SOC 2 engagement, based on comparable mid-tier and national firm pricing (not a number confirmed by Crowe), is roughly $15,000–$32,000 for a Type I and $25,000–$58,000 for a Type II — directional figures, not a quote.

Actual pricing will depend on scope, number of trust services criteria, number of locations and legal entities in scope, and whether Crowe is coordinating parallel work through other Crowe Global member firms. Request a scoped proposal directly for a firm number.

How long does a Crowe SOC 2 audit take?

Our estimated fieldwork-to-report timeline for a Crowe SOC 2 engagement is roughly 5–13 weeks, which covers the audit and reporting phase only.

A SOC 2 Type II additionally requires an observation period — typically 3 to 12 months of continuous control operation — before the audit itself can begin; a first-time buyer choosing Type II should plan for that window on top of the fieldwork estimate.

Which frameworks does Crowe cover?

Crowe’s SOC reporting page does not list ISO 27001, FedRAMP, StateRAMP, or CMMC as services delivered through the same practice profiled here (Crowe does reference HITRUST’s fast-track StateRAMP option as a HITRUST add-on, not a standalone Crowe assessment).

A buyer whose roadmap includes any of those as a primary, near-term requirement should confirm directly with Crowe whether another practice group inside the firm covers it, or plan for a separate specialist.

Who is Crowe a good fit for?

Crowe fits mid-market and larger companies with multi-country operations that want a coordinated US SOC 2 rather than a first-audit boutique. Confirm local-entity coverage before you assume one engagement covers every subsidiary.

Best fit for:

• Mid-market and larger companies with subsidiaries, data centers, or operations in multiple countries that want to coordinate the U.S.

SOC 2 with Crowe Global member-firm work elsewhere

• Organizations that need SOC 2 alongside HITRUST (e1/i1/r2) or PCI DSS (ROC or SAQ) and want to consolidate more than one attestation under one relationship
• Healthcare, financial services, and technology companies with regulated data and multiple, stacking compliance obligations
• Buyers who want a top-10 national firm’s name and a recent, clean AICPA peer review on the report
• Companies that need SOC 2+ (SOC 2 combined with NIST or HIPAA controls in a single report) rather than separate reports

Not a fit — look elsewhere if:

• You are an early-stage startup buying a first, single-framework SOC 2 on a tight budget and fast timeline; boutique SOC 2 specialists are typically faster and cheaper for that scope
• You need ISO 27001, FedRAMP, StateRAMP, or CMMC as your primary near-term requirement — confirm coverage with Crowe directly or plan for a separate firm
• You want penetration testing and your SOC 2 opinion from the same audit team without a documented independence separation — verify Crowe’s internal firewall or engage a separate pen-test provider

When should a buyer shortlist Crowe?

Crowe’s SOC 2 work is issued by Crowe LLP, a top-10 U.S. firm with a clean, recent AICPA peer review (October 2025, pass), and it sits inside a practice that also runs HITRUST (e1/i1/r2) and QSA-led PCI DSS assessments — a real option for buyers who need more than one attestation from one firm.

The genuine differentiator is Crowe Global’s 200+ member-firm network across 130+ countries, which lets a multinational client coordinate the U.S. SOC 2 with local Crowe-firm work abroad rather than shopping separately in each jurisdiction. Our estimated pricing ($15k–$32k Type I, $25k–$58k Type II) and timeline (5–13 weeks fieldwork, plus a 3–12 month observation period for Type II) are directional, not firm-confirmed. Crowe is a stronger fit for an established, multi-entity organization stacking frameworks than for a first-time, single-framework SOC 2 buyer on a startup budget.