Looking beyond HIPAA, SOX or PCI-DSS compliance claims

The scary part about shopping for a cloud solution is that even if the managed services provider claims compliance, this doesn’t mean that they actually are compliant.

In fact, the provider may not even realise they are being misleading. Because regulatory compliance is too often left open to interpretation, your definition of HIPAA, SOX or PCI-DSS compliance might be different than your cloud provider’s.   

This gap becomes even more critical as today’s information technology environments are being asked to house an expanding library of personal, private and sensitive data.

Whether you are aware of it or not, new regulations and industry standards are seemingly being created every day, meaning that your cloud provider may play a critical role in your regulatory auditing process. 

The trick then becomes finding a provider who does more than offer the mere promise of …