Colocation Firm CoreLink Completes SAS70 Type II Audit

Inside CoreLink's data centers.

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Colocation and managed services provider CoreLink Data Centers (www.corelink.com) announced on Thursday it has received a SAS 70 Type II for its nationwide data centers.

The completion of the SAS 70 Type II audit shows that CoreLink is committed to providing secure, professionally–run, outsourced data center solutions to all sized businesses.

The SAS 70 Type II audit provides CoreLink customers and clients with the assurance that CoreLink is a reliable data center service provider with the highest levels of security, service procedures, and established, effective controls.

The audit allows clients to control the costs of regulatory compliance.

Corelink recently relocated its headquarters from Phoenix to the Chicago suburb of Mount Prospect, Illinois, as well as opened its new 80,000 square-foot data center in Mt. Prospect.

Aside from its Chicago facility, CoreLink also has data centers in Seattle, Phoenix, and Las Vegas.

“CoreLink Data Centers’ attention to detail, strict process culture and relentless focus on customer service enable us to offer maximum reliability, security, and stability for our customers,” says Michael Duckett, president of CoreLink Data Centers. “Being SAS 70 Type II audited offers customers independent third party verification that we are meeting or exceeding objectives in  providing appropriate safeguards and controls required to maintain regulatory compliance.”

SAS 70 is a nationally recognized auditing standard developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

It also shows that the organization has been through an in-depth audit of the organization’s control objectives and control activities, which commonly include controls of IT and other related processes.

By completing the SAS 70 Type II audit, CoreLink is able to prove that its control objectives tested and reviewed by an independent certified public accounting firm to ensure operational procedures, security, controls, and processes are operating effectively to safeguard and protect customers’ data and equipment.

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