Compliance on the IBM Cloud

ISO 27017

ISO 27017 gives guidelines for information-security controls applicable to the provisioning and use of cloud services, as well as implementation guidance for both cloud service providers and cloud service customers. 

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ISO 22301
ISO 22301 provides requirements for the planning, establishment, implementation, operation, monitoring, review and maintenance of business continuity management systems (BCMS) within an organization. The BCMS help an organization prepare for, protect against and recover from disruptive incidents when they arise.

SOC 1, SOC 2 and SOC 3
A SOC 1 report focuses on controls at the service organization that would be useful to user entities and their auditors for planning a financial statement audit of the user entity and evaluating internal control over financial reporting at the user entity. SOC 2 and SOC 3 reports focus on the service organization's system description and controls in accordance with specific criteria related to availability, security and confidentiality. SOC 2 includes auditor testing and results, while SOC 3 is a summary of the SOC 2 report that is available for public use.

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HITRUST
The Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) is an organization governed by representatives from the healthcare industry. HITRUST created and maintains the Common Security Framework (link resides outside ibm.com), a certifiable framework to help healthcare organizations and their providers demonstrate their security and compliance in a consistent and streamlined manner.

IRAP (Australia)
The Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) (link resides outside ibm.com) is an initiative created by the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) to provide high-quality information and communications technology services to government in support of Australia’s security. IRAP provides the framework to endorse individuals from the private and public sectors to provide cyber security assessment services to Australian governments.

EU Model Clauses
EU Model Clauses are available to controllers and processors of EU citizens' Personally Identifiable Information (PII).  These clauses obligate non-EU companies to follow the laws and practices mandated by the EU in all global locations.  The clauses provide enforcement rights and comfort to companies that hold EU PII that providers located outside of the EU will process data only in accordance with their instructions and in conformance with EU laws.

HIPAA
The US Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA covers the storing and processing of protected health information (PHI and e-PHI). Companies and individuals falling under HIPAA must implement a set of technical, administrative and physical controls which are designed to secure this protected health information.

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ITAR
IBM Cloud provides offerings both in the federal and commercial space that support United States International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) compliance (link resides outside ibm.com). ITAR is an export control regulation designed to protect United States defense articles, defense services and related technical data handled by US manufacturers, exporters and brokers. ITAR states that only a US person can have physical or logical access to the articles stored in the ITAR environment unless authorization from the Department of State or a special exemption is received.

CJIS
The Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS) Division is a division of the US Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation. CJIS Division created and published a security policy, which contains minimum information security requirements, guidelines and agreements reflecting the will of law enforcement and criminal justice agencies for protecting the sources, transmission, storage and generation of Criminal Justice Information (CJI).

EU-US Privacy Shield
The EU-US and Swiss-US Privacy Shield Frameworks were designed by the US Department of Commerce and the European Commission and Swiss Administration to provide companies on both sides of the Atlantic with a mechanism to comply with data-protection requirements when transferring personal data from the European Union and Switzerland to the United States in support of transatlantic commerce.

FISC
The Center for Financial Industry Information Systems (FISC) (link resides outside ibm.com) was created by the Japanese Ministry of Finance with the purpose of conducting research on topics related to financial information systems in Japan. FISC created guidelines to promote the security of information systems within the banking and financial industry. These FISC guidelines, though not mandated by law, are recognized and used by most Japanese financial institutions in the design and maintenance of their information systems.

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IBM is committed to protecting the privacy and confidentiality of personal information about its employees, customers, Business Partners (including contacts within customers and Business Partners) and other identifiable individuals. Uniform practices for collecting, using, disclosing, storing, accessing, transferring or otherwise processing such information assists IBM to process personal information fairly and appropriately, disclosing it and/or transferring it only under appropriate circumstances.