Cloud Compliance Auditing: Ensuring Security and Trust in the Cloud

This is especially important with the shift of organizations to the cloud—compliance with the HIPAA, GDPR, or PCI-DSS regulations, for example. Cloud compliance auditing safeguards such legal necessities for these businesses as well as helping businesses protect their data and avoid penalties. That being said, how are the companies able to meet multiple compliance standards more effectively within the cloud environment? 

The Necessity of Cloud Compliance Auditing

In what follows, we ask the following questions: How is compliance auditing important for cloud security? Consider this: A study suggested that data breaches lead to an average of $3.86 million in penalties and losses and blamed non-compliance squarely for the break-ins. Whether you deal with healthcare records, financial, or customer relationship data, your institution must conform to legal measures; otherwise, you will be charged heavily while consumers’ trust erodes. 

Some Common Compliance Standards for the Cloud Environment 

• HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)

  For companies working with patients’ personal information, HIPAA regulation is mandatory to follow. Chaintech Network guarantees that the physical, system, and software structures of the cloud are HIPAA compliant in terms of data protection and encryption and setting up privacy parameters. Our auditing services provide you with an understanding of how adequate your cloud systems are to the HIPAA standards and what measures should be taken to address the shortcomings.

• GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)

  The EU General Data Protection Regulation applies to the processing of the personal data of EU citizens. Not even non-EU companies are exempt from the law if they process the data of EU citizens. Here at Chaintech Network, we assist organizations in adhering to the GDPR provision about data protection, user consent, and privacy. The audits we carry out with our clients are usually compliance audits, and we help you discover what may be lacking in your cloud environment and compliance with GDPR.

• PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard)

  Handling credit card data? As we know, the PCI-DSS standard is critical for compliance with the protection of customers’ payment information. Chaintech Network also undertakes a thorough checkup of your cloud systems to conform to PCI-DSS standards in payment processing, encryption, and storage. 

How Chaintech Network Implements Compliance Auditing?

1. Custom Auditing Solutions

   Different industries have different compliance needs, and Chaintech Network fully appreciates that no two companies are similar. We provide compliance auditing services that are tailored to your sector, and the basic services we have are grouped into health, finance, and retail.

2. Evergreen surveillance and reporting

   It is not an activity that is practiced once. Pervasive monitoring is important to sustain compliance across moments in time. Chaintech Network utilizes live monitoring solutions to review your infrastructure’s conformity levels continuously. Using specialty tools, we create detailed compliance reports, which will help your organization monitor compliance levels as well as solve any compliance issues.

3. Gap Analysis and Remediation

   During auditing, Chaintech Network comes up with gaps, which represent the presence or absence of total compliance with your cloud infrastructure in the organization’s regulations. It’s not just a hack; it’s also SHOW HACK remedial solutions to make your cloud systems fully compliant. 

Cloud Compliance Auditing: Why Chaintech Network?

Chaintech Network thus distinction in providing compliance auditing solutions for cloud environments, which include compliance auditing of end-client services. Regarding privacy and compliance, we assist your business in making sense of HIPAA, GDPR, PCI-DSS, and similar standards to stem the tide of compliance issues. 

We have cloud security and compliance-skilled professionals who examine your infrastructure for compliance with current standards while preparing it for any changes likely to occur in the future. Through our strong auditing, your organization should be able to expand its cloud function without apprehension of compliance standards or compromised data. 

Chaintech Network: Security for the cloud

With data becoming the new oil, having your cloud infrastructure in compliance with regulatory laws is vital, especially when it comes to issues with data protection and security. Chaintech Network has customized cloud compliance solutions that work to help your business understand the various technical compliance requirements, such as HIPAA, GDPR, and PCI-DSS so that you can work in the cloud securely.