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UKCloud supports customer due diligence with Cloud Security Alliance ‘STAR’ declaration
November 2016 by Marc Jacob
UKCloud announced that it has achieved Level 1 certification against the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Security, Trust & Assurance Registry (STAR), a comprehensive assertion of the security of a cloud service provider.
The CSA STAR programme records compliance levels against a comprehensive framework of cloud-based security control objectives, which allow cloud service providers from around the world to assess and communicate their security posture to potential customers. As a listed CSA STAR provider on the programme’s publically accessible Registry, this adds an even greater level of transparency of UKCloud’s industry leading security capabilities.
UKCloud has an unparalleled heritage of achieving the highest levels of independent validation of its security controls. In addition to industry standards such as ISO27001, UKCloud was amongst the very few to achieve and retain Pan Government Accreditation by the UK Government’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) at the highest level available to cloud providers, and is approved as a service provider on both the Public Services Network (PSN) and the NHS National Network (N3). UKCloud provides a wealth of assurance information to its customers through independent evidence of its accreditations, certifications and detailed descriptions about the security characteristics of each of its cloud services.
UKCloud is the industry’s most highly accredited and certified cloud service providers. It provides a full range of secure network connectivity options to meet its UK public sector customers’ requirements; furthermore, its multiple UK data centres ensures that customer data is never subject to foreign data privacy issues.
UKCloud’s assured cloud services are specifically designed to meet the needs of the UK public sector, delivering UK sovereign solutions, with genuine and flexible pay-by-the-hour consumption models.
