By Thu Pham on January 9, 2012
With the confusion regarding what audits and auditor reports apply to certain aspects of data center standards, I felt the need to create a basic data center/hosting solution audit cheat sheet to simplify matters. Here’s your comprehensive guide to data center audits and reports. SAS 70 The Statement on Auditing Standard No. 70 was the [...]
Posted in PCI/HIPAA/SAS-70 Compliance | Tagged HIPAA compliance, HIPAA compliant hosting, HIPAA hosting, PCI compliance, pci compliant hosting, PCI DSS, SAS 70, SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3, ssae 16 |
By Yan Ness on December 12, 2011
We’ve completed a number of audits over the years. Each audit results in a report such as HIPAA, SAS 70, SSAE 16, SOC 1/SOC 3 and PCI. It’s extremely expensive to do these audits well. The obvious costs are the auditors, but you can’t overlook the staff time and technology. We estimate it takes a few hundred hours [...]
Posted in Online Tech News, PCI/HIPAA/SAS-70 Compliance | Tagged data center audits, data centers, HIPAA compliant hosting, HIPAA hosting, michigan data centers, midwest data centers, pci compliant hosting, PCI hosting, SAS 70, SOC 1, SOC 3, ssae 16 |
By Thu Pham on September 9, 2011
How much could a data breach incident cost your company? Based on the results of The Ponemon Institute’s recent 2010 Annual Study: U.S. Cost of a Data Breach, breach incidents are increasing both in direct and indirect costs. The healthcare, pharmaceutical, financial and communications industries are shouldering the greatest expense per record breach. On average, [...]
Posted in PCI/HIPAA/SAS-70 Compliance | Tagged cost of data breach, HIPAA breaches, HIPAA compliance, HIPAA compliant hosting, HIPAA hosting, HIPAA violations, pci compliant hosting, PCI hosting, SAS 70, ssae 16 |
By Thu Pham on August 19, 2011
In April 2010, the AICPA (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants) announced the replacement of SAS 70 by a new and refined auditing standard, the Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements or SSAE 16. While SAS 70 was originally intended for financial and accounting auditing, the SSAE 16 audit was established to verify data center [...]
Posted in PCI/HIPAA/SAS-70 Compliance | Tagged SAS 70, SOC 1, SOC 2, soc 2 report, SOC 3, soc 3 report, ssae 16 |
By Mike Klein on April 13, 2011
We’re in the final vigil for SAS 70. The oxygen has been brought out and the last rites are being given, and while a few data centers are scrambling to get a SAS 70 audit before the bell tolls, on June 15, 2011, SAS 70 will be dead. Auditors will no longer conduct SAS 70 [...]
Posted in PCI/HIPAA/SAS-70 Compliance | Tagged SAS 70, sas 70 data center, SAS70 Hosting, SOC, SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3, SOC 3 certification, SOC report, ssae 16, SSAE 16 data center |
By David Barton on March 8, 2011
Last April, the AICPA announced that SAS 70 was going away, to be replaced by SSAE 16. Since that time, additional discussion and guidance has resulted in more fine-tuning of the standards. It turns out that the AICPA has done a lot more than just renumber and reorganize SAS 70. The Institute has created three [...]
Posted in Michigan Data Centers, PCI/HIPAA/SAS-70 Compliance | Tagged AICPA, CICA, SAS 70, SOC 2, SOC 3, ssae 16, UHY LLP |
By Mike Klein on February 15, 2011
SOC 2 and SOC 3 provide much more stringent audit requirements with a stronger set of controls and requirements specifically designed around data center service organizations.
Posted in Michigan Data Centers, PCI/HIPAA/SAS-70 Compliance | Tagged SAS 70, sas 70 data center, SAS70 Hosting, SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3, SOC 3 certification, ssae 16, SSAE 16 data center |
By April Sage on September 17, 2010
When you’re choosing a place to colocate your servers, obvious factors like geographic location, redundancy level, and pricing are primary drivers. But don’t forget to ask about the services and features that can make the day-to-day reality of colocating your servers more effective and secure. Sometimes it’s the little things that can make all the [...]
Posted in Michigan Colocation, PCI/HIPAA/SAS-70 Compliance | Tagged colocation, it disaster recovery, Michigan colocation, offsite backup, SAS 70, sas 70 data center, SAS70 Hosting, ssae 16 |
By Online Tech on December 9, 2009
With the recent passing of the new HITECH (Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health) act – an addition to pre-existing HIPAA rules and regulations – the stakes for data breaches to private health information are rising. With possible fines up to 1.5 million and mandatory public disclosure of the breach in some cases, [...]
Posted in Online Tech News | Tagged HIPAA compliance, HITECH act, MedHub Inc., SAS 70, sas 70 data center |
By Online Tech on October 20, 2009
Online Tech announced today that it has successfully completed its SAS 70 (Statement on Auditing Standards number 70) Type II audit for all three of its Michigan data centers. Six months after successfully completing the SAS 70 Type I audit on all of its data centers, Online Tech took another step to ensuring its high [...]
Posted in Michigan Data Centers, Online Tech News | Tagged colocation, dedicated server, dedicated server host, michigan data center, michigan data centers, Online Tech, SAS 70, SAS70 Hosting |
