The SAS 70 auditing standard has been a must for service providers to test internal security controls. But it hasn’t been without critics, and SAS 70’s replacement is at hand. In June 2011, it will be ...

The following content is from an older version of this website, and may not display correctly. Intermedia has announced it has passed the SAS 70 auditing process. A standard achieved by few hosting ...

What about the companies whose data is in question, do they need to worry? No, and the reason they are asking for the SAS 70 audit of their service providers is that they want to prove that data is ...

Ann Arbor-based data center operator Online Tech said Friday it had completed its latest SAS 70 Type II audit for the second year in a row. New to this year's report was a complete audit of Online ...

Jay Heiser, research VP at Gartner has walked into something of a SNAFU. He says: SAS 70 is a) not a certification, b) not a standard, and c) isn’t meant to be applied the way it is being applied now.

You may be familiar with SAS 70: an audit standard used for businesses that provide a service relating to their clients’ finances. If you feel like you just figured out SAS 70 audits, I’m sorry to say ...

A recent analyst report is reminding the compliance community yet again that so-called SAS 70 reports—the supposedly formal assurances software vendors give to corporate customers about their own ...

IMGCAP(1)]Over the last few weeks, many service organizations have started to receive requests from customers wanting to know the controls standard used as the basis for their SAS 70 audits. These ...

Think you need a SAS 70 report — or its replacement, the SSAE No. 16 — to demonstrate your credentials? You may… but maybe not. Service Organization Controls (SOC) reports are designed to help service ...

The worlds of outsourcing and U.S. financial regulation are beginning to coincide. In particular, a number of large (and not-so-large) companies are increasingly insisting on comprehensive ...

Asked to flash its cloud security credentials at an industry forum, Google pointed to its SAS 70 certification, giving more support to that set of standards as a measure of how well cloud providers ...

When companies receive a request for a SAS 70 audit, their first question is often, “What is this, and why am I being asked for it?” A SAS 70 audit (statement of auditing standards No. 70) is one ...