American Digital Adds Another Layer of Assurance with SOC2 Compliance

Elk Grove Village, Illinois - August 20, 2019

American Digital today announced that it has achieved SOC2 compliance trailing the successful completion of an impartial audit. As more enterprises outsource their core business operations through SaaS or cloud-based service models, it’s critical that their IT solutions partner have in place stringent information practices, procedures, and policies designed to protect sensitive client data. SOC2 certification evaluates those to offer a new level of assurance.

SOC2 is an auditing procedure developed by the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) to certify that a company’s information security practices align with the best interests of its clients. To achieve compliance, a company must have written security policies and procedures covering its Five Trust Service Principles. Outside auditors then use those as a guide when assessing a service provider’s compliance in each area. The Five Trust Service Principles include:

Security: This refers to protection measures in place to prevent unauthorized access, system abuse, software misuse, data theft, unauthorized data alteration, or unauthorized data disclosure.

Availability: This refers to a system, service, or product’s ability to meet minimum accessibility performance level standards as outlined in their contract or service level agreement.

Processing Integrity: This refers to a system’s ability to achieve its intended purpose by processing data timely, accurately, and completely.

Confidentiality: This refers to the vendor’s ability to protect data confidentiality while in transmission.

Privacy: This refers to the system’s ability to maintain the privacy of personally identifiable information during collection, use, disclosure, retention, and disposal based on its privacy notice and the AICPA’s Generally Accepted Privacy Principles (GAPP).

“As an organization focused on helping our clients keep their data secure, we found it imperative that we lead by example by applying for and meeting the requirements of SOC2 compliance,” explained Christine Herrmann, VP of Finance and Operations at American Digital. “This certification ensures that our systems and operational procedures are set up to offer optimal security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy.” Learn more about American Digital at www.americandigital.com.

About American Digital

American Digital is a Chicago-based Enterprise IT solutions partner focused on datacenter transformation. Our 30+ years of experience gives us a unique advantage – the ability to predict the needs of our clients while navigating constant developments in technology. Our focus is clear, building long-term relationships with our clients based on trust, reliability, and success. Our success is the result of delivering comprehensive IT services and solutions that embrace technology and empower people.

As an HP Enterprise Platinum Partner, American Digital provides custom system integration and consulting services across HPE’s complete enterprise portfolio of server, storage, and networking products. We also support business critical applications including SAP, VMware, RedHat, Microsoft, Oracle, MEDITECH, Epic, and Ellucian.