Certifications for DATA centers
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Compliance and Certification products for Data Centers by Kayzed Consultants
Introduction: Ensuring Operations Excellence in Data Center Compliance Management;
The IT landscape is evolving at a very high level across the industries which is also affecting worldwide data center infrastructures. As you are aware many organizations these days are highly dependent on cloud computing data, virtual data management, enormous computing capabilities, information security, security and IT compliances. At Kayzed Consultants, we specialize in consulting, certifications and assessment of Data Center Organizations with alignment with internationally recognized standards such as ISO and other compliance framework standards. We are experts in implementing various standards such as PCI DSS, SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 22301, NIST, GDPR, HIPPA, TIA-942, FedRAMP, etc.
Your data center can be a colocation facility, or owned end-to-end enterprise infrastructure, or a cloud service provider, we at Kayzed consultants make sure that your data center operations meet the industry best practices. We conduct gap assessment, maturity assessment, risk assessment, internal and external audits, documentation development, pre-assessment, certification audit support, certification readiness support based on your specific requirements.
There are several certifications and compliance standards or frameworks for data centers
- 1. ISO standards that a applicable to data centers.
- 2. PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard)
- Understanding the requirements of PCI DSS requirement applicable to your organization.
- Gap assessment according to PCI DSS requirements
- Identify and develop controls for PCI DSS card management
- Provide best practices related to implementing the controls such as encryption, network security, access control, physical control, monitoring, etc.
- Assessment as per PCI DSS requirements.
- Reporting and document preparation related to PCI DSS
- Final Certification support for PCI DSS
- Initial Gap assessment for determining how your organization has implement security related controls and verifying it against SOC 2 requirement
- Identify and develop additional controls for SOC 2 for your organization.
- Assessment of SOC 2 final requirements.
- Testing of each SOC 2 requirement against your final determined controls.
- Report preparation for SOC 2.
- Attestation of SOC 2 requirements with your organization.
- Final report releasing.
ISO 27001:2022 (Information Security Management System - ISMS) - This international standard can be used by your data center to comply with stringent customer requirements related to information security. This standard also helps to protect your organization from various information security threats, cyber security threats, thefts, mismanagement of data, physical security breaches, data breaches and various other risks.
ISO 22301:2019 (Business Continuity Management System - BCMS) - This international standard can be used by your data center to demonstrate to your management that your data center is capable of continuing the operations without any disruptions. It can help your organization to prevent and also respond to any disruptions. You can protect your organization from various types of disruptions such as natural calamities or disasters, discontinuity of operations due to manpower unavailability, cyber-attacks, operational failures such as DG failure or infrastructure failures.
ISO 20000-1:2018 (IT Service Management - ITSM) - This international standard is typically used by the data center operations team to demonstrate that we are in line with international best practices with regards to service management of our clients as well as service management of internal data center IT infrastructure components. It helps to streamline service level agreements, service delivery, service management, internal IT processes management, etc.
ISO 50001:2018 (Energy Management System - EnMS) - This international standard helps you to demonstrate your stakeholders such as customers, management, local energy relate authorities that you are running your data center in an energy efficient and sustainable way. It also provides a framework to carry out energy review of the data center, monitor the energy relate measurement parameters specific to data center, identify opportunities for improving the energy consumption and reducing specific energy consumptions.
ISO 45001:2018 (Occupational Health and Safety - OH&S) - There is not much to say about this internationally recognized standard. It was previously famous as OSHAS 18001. Implement this standard and make your employees feel safe about your workplace. The recent updates in this standard has also emphasized on employee well-being.
ISO 9001:2015 (Quality management standard -QMS): This standard is a benchmark to deliver quality service , implementing this standard will ensure consistency thru out the organization. It also improves customer service for clients as all the processes are streamlined and organisation becomes customer oriented by collecting feedbacks , complaints to analyze them and improve customer expereince.
ISO 14001:2015 (Environment management standard-EMS)-The standard ensures compliance to environmental issues due to impacts by its activity , Implementing this standard will help the organisation to streamline their water usage , energy usage , waste management and many other issues related to environment. It is im[ortant to follow 4 R.. Refuse Reuse, Reduce, Recycle in environment management.
If your data center is handling any credit card, debit card, digital banking card, or processing or storing any payment related confidential data of the card, getting certified by this standard is a compulsory obligations and will be asked for being compliant directly by your customers.
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3. SOC 2 (System and Organization Controls - Type I & II)
SOC 2 attestation of compliance is important for your data center if you are offering co-location, cloud or any other management services related to data center. This requirement will be audited based on AICPA's Trust Criteria and how your controls align with each of these control criteria. We provide services related to SOC 2 such as:
4. LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) for your data center<
Similar to ISO 50001, this standard help you to demonstrate energy efficiency in your operations. This standard and also be used by your organization during the construction phases so that you can demonstrate any future climate change or sustainability related regulations. In some of the cases the local authorities may suggest you to go for this certification in the design and construction phase itself. This standard will help you to meet the requirements if you are going for Uptime Institute Tier-II, Tier-III, Tier-IV certifications future. You can get certified to this standard by implementing efficient controls in management energy at your data centers.
5. NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Cybersecurity Framework
This requirement is typically for the data centers in case you are handling data related to government organizations or any large organization that has voluntarily decided to implement NIS NIST 800-53, 800-171, and CSF. This is a standard will help you to align with NIST based security frameworks. We help organizations do implement these standards on customizable basis.
6. GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) & CCPA Compliance
If you want your data center to be compliant with European (GDPR) and Californian (CCPA) consumer data, as per customer requirements we can help you achieved even that. We at Kayzed consultants can help your organization in achieving such compliance requirements by ensure that there are proper mechanisms relate to data collection, processing. We will ensure that respective compliance and data retention related polices are create and published. We will also hep you to document your Data Subject Rights (DSR) management and Cross-border data transfer compliance.
7. HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) Compliance
If your data center needs HIPAA compliance we can help you obtain it with our tailored solutions. The requirement can be from your customers or local regulatory authority to implement HIPAA compliance so that your datacenter is able to securely store, process and transmit sensitive patient related data or information. If you are not able to achieve the HIPPA requirements your data center can come under the scrutiny of of legal authorities leading to huge fines and penalties, leading to damage in your organization's reputation and along with trust issues from the client.
We can help you achieve HIPPA compliance by our risk assessment, gap assessment making sure that other international frameworks for heath organizations are also taken into account, such as Protected health information (PHI), HITECH, NIST requirements, etc. We will help you to achieve the HIPAA compliance with our custom methodology for implementation such as maturity assessment, determining HIPAA controls against your organizational security controls, etc. Get in touch with us for more information related to HIPAA related methodology and prepare for your successful HIPAA compliance.
8. TIA-942 (Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Data Centers)
If your customer or stakeholders are asking your data center to be certified for TIA-942 incase our data center falls under Tier certifications for infrastructure, we can help you create documentations and compliances aligning with those requirements as well.
We will help you to achieve the requirement of TIA-942 by comprehensive risk assessments of your data center, analyzing the power and cooling related parameters that are requirement for Tier Certifications, aligning your SLA's according to TIA requirements, standardizing your layout and emergency infrastructures. We will make sure that all the requirements related to TIA-942 is met by your datacenters via in-house tailored training sessions.
9. FedRAMP (Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program)
his is very a rare requirement in the MENA region, however if your datacenter is serving federal or government organizations in UAE or United states you might be enforced by your client to implement FedRAMP requirements.
We will help you implement best practices regarding to FedRAMP by comprehensive risk assessment, aligning your requirements with international best practices for federal security such as CMMC, etc. and help you achieve "Achieve Authority to Operate (ATO) certification". We have successfully implemented information security standards in serval government sectors in the region.
FAQ
A data center is a room, building or facility that houses IT infrastructure for building, running and delivering applications and services. It also stores and manages the data associated with those applications and services.
What are different kinds of Data centers Models ?
Colocation Data centre, Managed Data center, Enterprise Data center, Cloud Data center, Edge data center, hyperscale data center
Why data centers need soc 2 ?
SOC 2 compliance is critical to data centers because of sensitive customer data they handle. Data security, confidentiality, and availability are all vital for sensitive data, and SOC 2 compliance offers a framework for secure data processing policies and through regular assessment they make sure they are compliant to the frame work.
Why data centers need iso 27001
What is a green data center?
A green data center is a data storage, management, and dissemination facility that runs on energy-efficient technologies. It is designed for maximizing energy efficiency and minimizing environmental impact.
The two most used parameters to measure power efficiency in data centers are:
Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE)
Carbon Usage Effectiveness (CUE)
Why Choose Kayzed Consultants?
Industry and sector Expertise:
We have more than 18 Years of experience in data center compliance, ISO standards, and cybersecurity in the MENA region including U.A.E (United Arab Emirates), Qatar, Oman, K.S.A (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia),etc.
Kayzed customized solutions for security: we have developed inhouse and tailormade solutions based on client requirements covering various sector such as government, telecom, insurance, banking, finance, manufacturing, services, engineering and construction, real estate, etc. covering a range of portfolios.
End-to-End consultancy and certification Support:
we provide an exhaustive support from initial assessment to certification, renewal, and certification maintenance contracts. Our clients have continued to avail our services even after the certifications.
Kayzed Consultants offers Certifications for DATA centers in Saudi Arabia, Oman, UAE & many more countries
Certifications for DATA centers
