By Martha Young
...co-founder of Nova Amber LLC, a business-consulting firm based in Golden, Colo. She co-authored The Case for Virtual Business Processes, published by Cisco Press. She has extensive global expertise in the outsourcing and managed services market intelligence arena. Young can be reached at myoung@novaamber.com or (303) 642-0941.
Opinion: In the new regulatory environment, solution providers with SAS-70 Type II certification can instill confidence in their clients and save them money at audit time.
Several service providers and collocation facilities have recently announced receipt of Type II certification, including CenterBeam, CyrusOne, and Terremark Worldwide. SAS 70 Type II certification is valuable to service providers of all sizes. HP Global Services and Unisys, two of the largest global service providers, also are certified.
Eric Arnold, vice president of engineering, security and operations at CenterBeam said, "Nearly all of our clients have complex business environments requiring extensive information security. With our Type II certification we can save each and every one of them substantial time and money in their audit process, whether they are going through SOX or HIPPA, or any other compliance audit. We anticipate this certification will aid the decision process for prospective clients to select CenterBeam as their outsourced service provider over competing non-certified providers."
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