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Digital Realty Trust completed a SOC 2 Type 2 examination of its U.S. data center operations using the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Guide: Reporting on Controls at Service Organizations Relevant to Security, Availability, Processing Integrity, Confidentiality, or Privacy.

"Digital Realty has successfully completed an examination of its security controls using the AICPA's SOC 2 Type 2 report," said Dave Caron, Senior Vice President, Portfolio Management at Digital Realty. "As one of the largest data center providers with a commitment to excellence and transparency, we took an early start in the industry to undertake this extensive effort, validating our security procedures and making those results available to our broad base of customers."


SOC 2 is a mechanism to report on the design and effectiveness of their security policies, communications, procedures and monitoring based on detailed criteria.

“With the retirement of SAS 70 last year and increasing deployment of cloud and other outsourced solutions, we see the growing importance of SOC 2 reports for customers to help them monitor the effectiveness of their service providers' security and other operational controls," said David Schirmacher, Senior Vice President, Operations for Digital Realty. "SOC 2 reports benefit customers by providing detailed information on controls and auditor testing to address a predefined set of detailed control criteria. For this reason, we decided to be proactive and complete our inaugural SOC 2 security examinations."

Digital Realty's Q1 2012 profits rise.