A pioneer in providing real estate management and lease management software solutions, AMTdirect, received recently SAS 70 Type II certification for their data centers and internal controls around protecting customer data.

    After strenuous third-party testing of its application hosting services and internal controls, AMTdirect received certification. The certification verifies that client data is stored in a safe, technical and physical environment and that AMTdirect's processes ensure the data's ongoing safety.

    Daniel Schubert, CCO of AMTdirect said: "With the completion of the SAS 70 Type II audit, AMTdirect is demonstrating our market leadership and commitment to maintaining the necessary security measures to support our customer's Sarbanes--Oxley (SOX) initiatives". "The independent auditors have now confirmed what our clients have experienced for years - information technology practices that exceed industry standards."

    AMTdirect is among a growing number of software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies that are now able to offer the physical security and internal controls needed to fully support SOX compliance initiatives for their customers.

    Scott Schubert," CEO of AMTdirect said: "The ability for an on-demand IWMS (integrated workplace management system) to surpass the rigorous tests of a SAS 70 Type II Audit assures organizations that a SaaS environment provides a more reliable and cost-effective solution for managing your real estate assets". "AMTdirect's data centers have a strong record of better than a 99.9 percent uptime and can offer stronger fail-over and recovery processes than most in-house data centers."

    Designed to enable an independent auditor to evaluate and issue an opinion on a service organization's controls, SAS 70 is an internationally recognized auditing standard. A SAS 70 Type II audit includes procedures similar to a Type 1 audit, but also includes an opinion on the operating effectiveness of the controls during a period of time. Companies undergoing an SAS 70 Type II audit are committed to providing clients with information on the effectiveness of their controls throughout the year.
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