Is Your Digital Business Card SOC 2 Compliant?

George El-Hage 🔗 LinkedIn

Founder, Wave Connect | Trusted by 10,000+ teams globally

I've deployed digital business cards for enterprises with strict compliance requirements, including organizations in healthcare, finance, and legal. This guide is based on real security audits and vendor risk assessments.

Finding a SOC 2 compliant digital business card platform isn't optional anymore - it's a baseline requirement for any enterprise deployment. If your team is sharing contact data through a tool that hasn't passed a SOC 2 Type II audit, you've got an unmanaged risk sitting in your security stack. 🔐

In this guide, I'll walk you through exactly what SOC 2 Type II means for digital business cards, how to evaluate whether your current vendor meets the standard, and how Wave Connect's enterprise platform is built from the ground up to pass enterprise security reviews. I've sat through enough vendor risk assessments to know what IT teams actually care about - so let's cut to what matters.

Is Your Digital Business Card SOC 2 Compliant? (And Why It Matters)

Here's the thing most people don't think about: every time an employee shares a digital business card, they're transmitting contact data through a third-party platform. Names, emails, phone numbers, job titles, company information - sometimes even meeting notes and CRM data.

For a 10-person startup, that's manageable. For a 500-person enterprise in financial services or healthcare? That's a data liability. And if your digital business card vendor doesn't have SOC 2 Type II certification, you've essentially given an unaudited third party access to your contact pipeline.

I've seen this play out firsthand. A healthcare organization I worked with had their compliance team flag a consumer-grade card app that employees had adopted on their own. No SOC 2 report. No data processing agreement. No SSO. Just an app that collected contact data with zero visibility into where it went.

What Is SOC 2 Type II Certification? (A Simple Explanation)

SOC 2 stands for System and Organization Controls 2. It's a compliance framework developed by the AICPA (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants) that defines how service providers should handle customer data.

The framework covers five Trust Services Criteria:

• Security: Protection against unauthorized access (firewalls, encryption, intrusion detection)
• Availability: System uptime and disaster recovery
• Processing Integrity: Data accuracy and completeness
• Confidentiality: Restricted access to sensitive information
• Privacy: How personal data is collected, used, and retained

Now here's the critical distinction. SOC 2 Type I is a point-in-time snapshot - it says "on this date, our controls were in place." SOC 2 Type II covers a sustained period (usually 6-12 months) and proves those controls were consistently operational. Type II is what enterprise procurement teams require, and it's what you should demand from any digital business card vendor.

Think of it this way: Type I is like passing a single pop quiz. Type II is like maintaining a 4.0 GPA for a full year. Big difference.

How to Evaluate if Your Digital Business Card Is SOC 2 Compliant

I've been on both sides of security questionnaires - filling them out for Wave and reviewing them as a vendor. Here's the 8-point checklist I'd give any IT director evaluating a digital business card platform for their team:

Wave Connect's Full Security & Compliance Stack

Let's get specific about what's actually built into Wave Connect's security infrastructure. Here's the complete breakdown:

Wave Connect security features verified as of February 2026. For enterprise security documentation, visit Wave Enterprise.

A few things to highlight. The combination of SOC 2 Type II + GDPR + VPAT covers the three main compliance requirements enterprise procurement teams ask about: security auditing, data privacy, and accessibility.

The browser-based architecture is where Wave really separates from typical digital business card platforms. No native app means no app permissions on employee devices, no update management headaches, and no shadow IT risk. And white-label domains mean your card URLs live on your own domain, under your security infrastructure.

Why Browser-Based Digital Business Cards Are More Secure

This is the point I always come back to in enterprise security conversations, and it's one that doesn't get enough attention.

When a digital business card platform requires a native app, that app needs to be installed on every employee's device. And every installed app creates attack surface:

• App permissions: Camera, contacts, storage, sometimes location. Each one is a potential data exposure point.
• Update management: If the app vendor pushes a compromised update, every employee device is affected.
• Shadow IT risk: Employees install the app before IT has a chance to vet it. By the time security reviews it, hundreds of contacts are already in a third-party system.
• Offboarding gaps: When someone leaves the company, you need to revoke app access separately from revoking their SSO. Another thing to forget.

Wave's browser-first approach means: no executable code on the device, no persistent app permissions, no background data collection, and nothing for your MDM to manage. Your IT team controls access through SSO and RBAC in the admin dashboard - that's it.

Plus, with white-label domains, your digital business cards are served from your own domain (like cards.yourcompany.com) instead of a third-party URL. That means your card sharing stays within your DNS and security infrastructure.

Wave's SOC 2 Type II Compliance: What It Means for Your Enterprise

Let me be specific about what Wave's compliance stack actually includes and why it goes beyond what most digital business card platforms offer.

SOC 2 Type II + GDPR + VPAT accessibility. That's not a checkbox exercise - it's a comprehensive security posture that covers:

• Data at rest: AES-256 encryption for all stored contact data, card designs, and analytics
• Data in transit: TLS 1.3 for every API call, card share, and admin action
• Access control: SSO via Okta, Azure AD, and Google Workspace. RBAC with granular admin/manager/user permissions
• Audit logging: Full trail of who accessed what, when, from which device
• Data ownership: Your contacts are your data. Wave doesn't solicit, market to, or resell recipient contact information. Ever.

That last point matters more than you'd think. Some digital business card platforms treat recipients as their own leads - they'll add "Powered by [Platform]" branding and then email your contacts with promotional content. From a security and compliance perspective, that's a data processing activity your legal team should know about.

Wave doesn't do that. Zero branding on recipient-facing cards. Zero solicitation of your contacts. Your data stays yours.

For teams evaluating how to create digital business cards at enterprise scale, the compliance stack is what determines whether your deployment gets approved by IT - or blocked. Wave's built to get through that approval process.

The Bottom Line

Here's my honest take. In 2026, SOC 2 Type II is the baseline - but it's not enough on its own. The real differentiators for enterprise security are what sits on top of SOC 2: GDPR compliance, VPAT accessibility certification, browser-based architecture that eliminates app-based attack vectors, white-label domains for DNS-level control, and zero recipient solicitation.

If you're an IT director or CISO evaluating any digital business card vendor, use the 8-point checklist above and run them through it. Don't just ask "Are you SOC 2 compliant?" - ask about the full stack.

And if you want a platform that's already built to pass enterprise security reviews, Wave's enterprise platform is designed specifically for organizations where compliance isn't optional.