ARIN Online Achieves SOC 2 Compliance
We are pleased to share that ARIN has successfully completed an initial Service Organizational Control (SOC) 2 Type II audit of ARIN Online and renewed compliance for our Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) for the fourth year. An independent third-party audit firm conducted the examination, covering the period of 1 October 2025 through 30 September 2026.
What is SOC 2?
SOC 2 is a voluntary cybersecurity compliance framework developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). It is designed for service organizations — primarily cloud-based and SaaS companies — to demonstrate that they securely manage and protect customer data.
ARIN Online Joins the Program
ARIN began conducting SOC 2 audits in 2022, initially with a focus on RPKI. It was always our intent to include ARIN Online as well, and the ARIN team has worked steadily over the last few years to make that possible.
ARIN Online is the customer portal and system of record for number resources in our region. Through it, organizations manage Org IDs and Points of Contact, submit resource requests and transfers, maintain Whois and reverse DNS records, create Route Origin Authorizations, and pay invoices. While ARIN Online has maintained compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) security framework since 2023, seeking auditor validation of the system under the broader SOC 2 Type 2 framework provides an extra layer of assurance of the security controls that protect the portal.
Getting the Reports
Our updated SOC 3 report (a publicly releasable version of the SOC 2 report) is available to download from the ARIN Trust Center. Organizations that need the full SOC 2 report can submit an Ask ARIN request through ARIN Online.
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