Vetting back-up services: Meet SAS 70

摘要

As I write, my last column on back-up services has been posted only three days, but responses already are coming from services vendors. While I've not yet heard from my "placeholder" company, LiveVault, a competitor wrote immediately seconding my focus on security — and upping the ante: "You raise an excellent point in your Network World column about identity theft, data security and backup. Security needs to be addressed on both sides of the remote back-up equation. That's why Arsenal Digital Solutions, a competitor of LiveVault's, certified that its storage management services meet the Statement on Auditing Standards No. 70 Type II."