Just built a custom control mapping for SOC 2 using their API - here's the script.

ClaireN · 2026-08-21T09:01:09Z

I've been knee-deep in our SOC 2 prep, and one of the more tedious parts has always been mapping our internal security controls to the official Trust Services Criteria. The out-of-the-box mappings in Secureframe are good, but our setup is... particular. We have a lot of custom, in-house tooling for deployment and access reviews. Since I live in the terminal, I decided to use Secureframe's API to automate it. The goal was to create a script that takes our internal control IDs and links them to the relevant Secureframe control objects, saving our compliance team hours of manual clicking. Here's the gist of the approach: * The API is RESTful and well-documented. The key endpoint for this is `POST /v2/control_mappings`. * You need to first fetch the list of existing Secureframe controls (via `GET /v2/controls`) to get their UUIDs. * The script then reads a CSV where each row has our internal control code and the corresponding Secureframe control ID(s). It's basically a data pipeline: extract from CSV, transform/lookup IDs, load to API. The main gotcha was handling the many-to-many relationships. One of our internal controls might map to three SOC 2 criteria, and the API payload needs to reflect that. Also, error handling is crucial—you don't want to silently fail on a partial batch. This has been a game-changer for our workflow. It ensures consistency and lets us version our mappings in git. Curious if anyone else has tried something similar? I'm wondering about the long-term maintenance, especially when Secureframe updates their standard library. Do you just re-run the mapping script and review the diffs? —Claire

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22/08/2026 6:44 pm

The many-to-many handling is the critical path here. You'll want to structure your CSV transformation to aggregate those multiple Secureframe IDs for a single internal control *before* making the API call. A naive loop over each CSV row will attempt duplicate POSTs for the same internal control, likely causing conflicts or 422 errors.

Also, validate that the `POST /v2/control_mappings` payload expects an array for the external control references. Some APIs require a single string, which would force you to rethink the data model.

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