{"id":6942,"date":"2013-04-12T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2013\/apr\/12\/choosing-a-cloud-provider-the-importance-of-compliance-transparency\/"},"modified":"2013-04-12T09:45:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T09:45:00","slug":"choosing-a-cloud-provider-the-importance-of-compliance-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/choosing-a-cloud-provider-the-importance-of-compliance-transparency\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing a cloud provider: The importance of compliance transparency"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong><em>Looking beyond HIPAA, SOX or PCI-DSS compliance claims<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The scary part about shopping for a cloud solution&nbsp;is that even if the managed services provider claims compliance, this doesn&rsquo;t mean that they actually are compliant. <\/p>\n<p>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&rsquo;s. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This gap becomes even more critical as today&rsquo;s information technology environments are being asked to house an expanding library of personal, private and sensitive data. <\/p>\n<p>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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The trick then becomes finding a provider who does more than offer the mere promise of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking beyond HIPAA, SOX or PCI-DSS compliance claims<br \/>\nThe scary part about shopping for a cloud solution&nbsp;is that even if the managed services provider claims compliance, this doesn&rsquo;t mean that they actually are compliant. In fact, the provi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}