Verizon Business has completed its annual SAS 70 Type II examination for the company’s data centers in Sydney, Melbourne, Singapore and Hong Kong.
According to the company, this certification closely follows the certifications achieved by its business’ IP Application Hosting Centers (Smart Centers) in Germany, Japan, the US and the UK, and its 15 internet data centers in North America. Ernst & Young performed the yearly examinations, reviewing control objectives and controls at the company’s managed and internet colocation data centers.
Specific areas of the examination included access to facilities, logical access to systems, network services operations, control processes and procedures and environmental safeguards.
John Karabin, Asia-Pacific regional vice president for global services at Verizon Business, said: This certification emphasises the unsurpassed combination of infrastructure, processes and people that we bring to bear in the delivery of IT and hosting solutions for our customers around the world. With this industry-recognised audit, we are reinforcing our commitment to maintaining the highest standards of quality and performance to support our customers’ business goals.
Verizon said that its enterprise customers can utilise the company’s managed Smart Centers to outsource the day-to-day management of their web sites and IP-enabled business applications.
Established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, SAS 70 is a recognised auditing standard for service organisations to demonstrate that they have adequate controls and processes in place.
