The Importance of SSAE 16 Compliance for Cloud Vendors

Statements on Standards for Attestation Engagements 16, or “SSAE 16”, is a stringent auditing protocol that seeks to ensure that organizations adhere to certain standards as to their financial and data security practices. Whereas it’s predecessor, SAS 70, merely sought to describe the “controls” of a given company’s systems, SSAE 16 goes one step further by looking to establish a thorough analysis of the systems themselves. Furthermore, SSAE 16 audits are only initiated after the management of the company being audited has submitted their “assertions” to the people conducting the SSAE 16. Once this is complete, either a Type 1 or the even more thorough Type 2 SSAE 16 audit is then performed.

With more and more companies relying on cloud services for much of their data management concerns, the importance of auditing protocols like the SSAE 16 have never been more crucial. After all, when looking into having any amount of your company’s data management infrastructure exported to the cloud, there can often understandably be concerns as to the stability and reliability of the services that are supplied by cloud vendors. For this reason, performing research as to the background and history of a cloud vendor and comparing reviews online are important steps for businesses to take if they want to be sure to pick a reliable online data backupand cloud computing service provider.

However, knowing that the company that you are going to be trusting with your indispensible digital assets has completed the SSAE 16 audit is the only way to establish indisputable proof that their systems are indeed as efficient and secure as they may be claiming them to be. For this reason, we here at KineticD are proud to have had all of our data centers thoroughly audited and certified for operational excellence by the SSAE 16. After all, having been in the online data backup and cloud computing service industry for over 10 years now, we know that the customers that we serve understand the importance of airtight digital security.

With KineticD you’ll always know that your company’s data will be safe and sound. First, before being sent to the cloud, all or our customers’ data is encrypted at the source using our uncrackable, Bank Grade, 448-bit Blowfish data encryption. Then we ensure the physical security of this encrypted data by storing it in one of our state of the art, high-security, Tier 3 data centers that are always protected by 24-hour security personnel and extensive video surveillance. For these reasons and more, we are one of the few cloud vendors on the market today to have managed to maintain a 100% data recovery track record for over a decade now. To learn more about what the KineticD advantage is all about, please visit our website today!