It’s your last chance to sign up for our free, informative webinar today at 2 P.M. ET with David Barton, Jon Long and Online Tech’s Risk Management & Security Officer Jason Yaeger for a discussion to help clarify data center audit standards and assessments. Register for our free webinar Tuesday, February 14, 2012 (today) from 2-3pm ET to discuss [...]
Join Online Tech, David Barton and Jon Long for a discussion to help clarify data center audit standards and assessments. Register for our free webinar Tuesday, February 14, 2012 from 2-3pm ET to discuss the differences between AICPA’s (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants) SOC (Service Organization Controls) audits and reports, other types of audits, and [...]
To Our Valued Clients: Each quarter I like to share with our clients the major initiatives we’re undertaking at Online Tech, and a look at what is in store for the near future. Last year, we grew over 26%, added a new data center, and invested in a number of improvements to our data centers [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
Online Tech is heading to Las Vegas for the 2012 Annual HIMSS Conference. With 30,000 attendees, HIMSS 12 is one of the largest healthcare IT and management systems conferences in the world.
If you're going to be there too, be sure to stop by Booth #13528!
2012 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition
February 20-24, 2012
Venetian Sands Expo Center
