The state-funded Institute for Information Industry yesterday signed a contract with EuroCloud, which represents the European cloud industry, to introduce a globally applicable certification program in Taiwan’s cloud sector.
The introduction of the EuroCloud Star Audit (ECSA) program aims to help establish “a sound and trustworthy environment” for developing Taiwan’s cloud computing sector and benefiting cloud users as a whole, the institute said in a statement.
The program goes beyond cloud security and data privacy protection by also emphasizing the importance of service operation management, it added.
The ECSA was approved after a review by the European Commission Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology, the EU network and the information safety bureau. The ECSA has become one of the EU’s officially approved third-party cloud service certification systems.
Institute for Information Industry president Wu Ruey-beei (吳瑞北) said the certification program would enable the institute to more effectively team up with local cloud sector vendors and service providers, facilitating total cloud services with a quality level ensured by the global market.
T.J. Fang (方天戟), vice president of the cloud computing application service development center at Taiwan-based Quanta Computer Inc (廣達), said Quanta’s own guarantee of secure and high-quality services carries even more weight if it is certified by a third party auditing framework such as the ECSA.
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