SAS 70 Type II Certification
At Hosting.com, the successful completion of a SAS 70 Type II audit for certification was essential.
It’s testimony to the fact that we have the necessary procedures in place to fully secure and protect clients’ online data assets within our corporate data center facilities. Recognized internationally as an auditing standard, a SAS 70 Type II Certification shows that a service company has completed an in-depth audit of their control activities, usually information technology and related processes, by an outside third-party. As audited by the accounting firm Chilton & Medley, Hosting.com’s certification verifies that our controls in hosting and IT infrastructure services including security practices, physical and logical facility access, environmental controls, data backups, customer service practices, and management policies were found to be operating with sufficient effectiveness. With this certification in hand, Hosting.com clients are assured that their online data assets are secure and will continue to be secure, as we recommit to a SAS 70 Type II audit each year.
Benefits of Partnering with a SAS 70 Type II Certified Host
- Provides a 3rd party confirmation that the services promised and supplied by Hosting.com are carried out in a controlled fashion.
- Verifies that the enacted controls are fair and were properly designed to meet their specific purpose.
- Provides clients with an independent assessment of the controls’ operating effectiveness as calculated over a period of time.
- Supplies clients with the resulting audit report which can be used in place of performing the procedure in-house for compliance with various government regulations including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.