Successfully completes Premium Data Centers examination, and the fifth consecutive year of SAS 70 Type II.
Verizon Business, a provider of communications and IT solutions, today anounced that it successfully completed the examination of its Internet colocation centers, known as Premium Data Centers. The company also successfully completed for a fifth consecutive year the SAS 70 Type II examination of its managed hosting centers called - Smart Centers, and their operating environments.
With the completion of the SAS 70 Type II examinations, Verizon Business can help Internet colocation and managed hosting customers address their control requirements over the processing of financial data and other sensitive company information under Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404. The examinations, performed by Ernst & Young LPP, addressed the suitability of Verizon Business' design of controls as well as the operating effectiveness of those controls within the processes of its Premium and Smart Data Centers, formerly MCI's Premium Data Centers and Enterprise Hosting Operations and now a part of Verizon Business.
Nancy Gofus, Verizon Business VP of Product Management said, "The successful conclusion of our SAS 70 Type II examinations further underscores the Verizon Business commitment to the establishment and maintenance of appropriate controls over our processes to help us ensure high standards of quality and stringent metrics for security and reliability."