Cision Ltd. announced it has successfully completed a SOC 2 Type II Service Organization Control (SOC 2) examination for its PR Newswire distribution products in accordance with attestation standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). Conducted by Yount, Hyde & Barbour, P.C., an independent CPA firm, the findings affirm PR Newswire distribution products meet the SOC 2 standards relative to the Security Trust Services Principle and Criteria. The SOC 2 report provides assurance to Cision PR Newswire customers that the company has designed and implemented effective security controls, as defined in the SOC 2 standards. To receive an unqualified opinion on their SOC 2 report, companies must have sufficient policies and strategies to satisfactorily protect client's data pursuant to the SOC 2 specification. SOC 2 is designed for advanced IT service providers and includes a set of criteria called Trust Principals. Those include the security of the service provider's system, the processing integrity of the system, availability of the system, the privacy of personal information that the service provider collects, retains, uses, discloses and disposes of for user entities and the confidentiality of the information that the service provider's system processes or maintains for user entities.