This article provides guidance on how to get your business compliant with PCI, HIPAA, GDPR, FedRAMP, SOC 2 by leveraging cloud services of AWS, GCP and Azure. Organizations providing IT Managed Services, Software Development, Software as a Service, infrastructure-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service tend to have their application products hosted on the cloud environments. In order to achieve [...]
Today, more than ever, organizations need to ensure the security, availability, privacy, processing integrity and confidentiality of their data and underlying systems—regardless of whether they managed are in-house or outsourced. E Com Security Solutions Information & Controls Assurance practice specializes in detecting risks that affect internal systems, business processes, projects, applications, data and third-parties with [...]
The increase in outsourcing directly increases the risk carried by the user entities, creating a need to demonstrate control is maintained at all times. One of the most common mechanisms to do this is through the request of the third party or “service organization” for independent reporting on the effectiveness of the internal controls operating [...]
The AICPA Assurance Services Executive Committee (ASEC) has developed a set of criteria (trust services criteria) to be used when evaluating the suitability of the design and operating effectiveness of controls relevant to the security, availability, or processing integrity of information and systems, or the confidentiality or privacy of the information processed by the [...]
Third party organisations that successfully complete a SOC 2+ audit can offer their clients reasonable assurance to demonstrate that effective internal controls are in place and these controls pertain to the criteria covered in the AICPA Trust Service Principles, as well as many of the detailed requirements covered in other regulatory and industry-specific frameworks. Service [...]
