IO completes SOC2 Type 2 audit for data centres

IO, the provider of next-generation modular data centre technology and services, has completed a SOC2 Type 2 audit covering their six operational data centres, which include one based in Singapore. The report demonstrates the reliability, security, and operational excellence of IO’s modular data centre technology for its customers.

SOC2 Type 2 is designed to provide IO customers with a level of assurance of corporate controls and demonstrate that IO has adequate controls as it relates to security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality and privacy. The SOC2 Type 2 report puts strict audit requirements in place and sets a high bar with a more meaningful audit standard than SAS70 or SSAE 16 (SOC1). IO achieved the SOC1 standard in 2012 and obtaining the SOC2 standard validates the security of its infrastructures and services. According to IO, SOC2 is rapidly becoming an industry standard.

The company said the certification further validates the resiliency and operational excellence of IO’s modular data centres and further proves that the era of secure hardware- and software-enabled data centres has arrived.

"Many of our customers are multinational companies with offices around the world. They rely on us to provide robust physical and information security to minimise risks. This certification is validation of our ongoing commitment to security and underscores the investment we’ve made to to help our customers keep their data safe,” said Mark Wachtmann, CIO, IO.

"Many of our customers serve clients that are in highly regulated industries. We need technology partners with robust information security and operating practices that demonstrate competency and compliance with all laws, regulations and internal policies," said Jeff Norris, Senior Director of Information Security at LexisNexis MTS, a company that provides colocation, managed WAN and cloud hosting services to the legal industry. LexisNexis MTS has been an IO customer for several years.

"IO has been a partner we can depend on for a superior level of service and their recent certification demonstrates their ongoing commitment to customers such as LexisNexis and what our clients are seeking."