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 [...]
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 [...]
Is your client information and data safe? How will you assure it? Two very important questions for which you should have very clear answers if you offer IT services to your clients. If you are an IT service organization you must meet your clients’ great demands for the security of their data. The SOC 2 report provides [...]
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's 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 at the [...]
Third party organisations that successfully complete a SOC 2 audit can offer their clients reasonable assurance that an independent reviewer has assessed their controls that relate to operations and compliance; and they meet the criteria prescribed by AICPA for the five TSCs. The report helps to prioritise risks in order to ensure that high quality [...]
Enhanced SOC 2 reports are highly flexible tools that can incorporate multiple frameworks and industry standards into third-party assurance reporting. For Outsourced Service Providers (OSP’s), the benefits are even more significant. Consider that these businesses must often respond annually to hundreds of individual audit requests, customer questionnaires, and requests for proposals. Many of these requests [...]
When considering the broad spectrum of services provided by outsourced service providers in today’s marketplace, some service types lend themselves clearly to one SOC reporting option over another. To best understand the reporting options, it’s important to consider the intended use and audience in each case. There are three SOC reporting options currently available in [...]
