Be Prepared for Compliance Audits
Throughout the lifetime of your business, you will come face-to-face with a variety of industry regulations. While they are designed to protect consumers’ rights and yours, they can be costly, resource-intensive, time-consuming, and plain confusing. However, it is often essential you take the necessary steps to meet these regulations and Hostway is here to assist.
Hostway offers a wide range of security solutions to satisfy compliance standards and help ensure a smooth audit, allowing your staff to focus on your core business initiatives. All offerings are coupled with PCI-certified and SSAE 16 data centers with 24/7 security and network monitoring.
Read more about industry compliance requirements below.
PCI DSS – Payment Card Industry Data
Security Standard
What is it?
Designed to assure customer credit or debit card data/account
information and transaction information is safe from hackers or any malicious system intrusion.
Who is required to be compliant?
Any organization that processes credit/debit card information, including merchants and third-party service providers that store, process or transmit credit/debit card data.
HIPAA – Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act
What is it?
Regulates the use and disclosure of an individual’s health information and gives patients greater control over the use of their health information.
Who is required to be compliant?
Any covered entity, defined as health care providers, health plans, and health care clearinghouses, which collect and use individually-identifiable health information.
GLBA – Gramm Leach Bliley Act
What is it?
Requires financial institutions to explain their information-sharing practices to their customers and safeguard sensitive customer data.
Who is required to be compliant?
Financial institutions – companies that offer financial products or services
to individuals.
SOX – Sarbanes-Oxley
What is it?
Mandates specific financial reporting requirements for publicly held companies to to safeguard financial data, operations, and assets.
Who is required to be compliant?
Compliance is mandatory for all publicly traded companies.
To learn more about PCI Complete, HIPAA Essential or building solutions to meet your specific industry compliance requirements call 1-888-874-1875 or
email serversales@hostway.com.
