Verizon Business Completes Examination of Internet Data Centers

Verizon Business has completed its annual SAS 70 Type II examination for the company’s five IP Application Hosting Centers (Smart Centers) in Germany, Japan, the U.S. and the U.K., and its 15 Premium Internet Data Centers in North America. All the facilities are used to deliver IT services to large-enterprise and government customers. Specifically, Ernst & Young LLP performed the yearly examinations, reviewing control objectives and controls at the company’s managed and Internet colocation data centers. Specific areas of examination, which is conducted in compliance with the standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, included access to facilities, logical access to systems, network services operations and environmental safeguards. Control processes and procedures were examined for all of the company’s Managed Hosting centers, as well as 15 Premium Internet Data Centers in major cities across North America, including Atlanta, Houston and San Jose, Calif.
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