Cloudera Successfully Completes SOC 2 Type II Certification for Cloud Offerings

Cloudera Director and Cloudera Navigator Optimizer Meet Security Criteria for Managing Clusters in Cloud Environments

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May 09, 2017, 07:00 ET

PALO ALTO, Calif., May 9, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Cloudera, the provider of the modern platform for machine learning and advanced analytics, announced that it has successfully completed an SOC 2 Type II Service Organization Control (SOC 2) examination for two of its products in accordance with attestation standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). Conducted by Coalfire Controls, LLC, an independent cyber risk and IT advisory services firm, the findings affirm that Cloudera Director, for cloud provisioning and Cloudera Navigator Optimizer, for workload offload and optimization assistance meet the SOC 2 standards relative to the Security Trust Services Principle and Criteria.

The SOC 2 report provides assurance to Cloudera and its customers that the company has designed and implemented effective security controls, as defined in the SOC 2 standards, relative to certain of its cloud offerings. During the examination, the independent auditors evaluated and tested controls over the following domains:

Organization and management
Communications
Risk management and design and implementation of controls
Monitoring of controls
Logical access controls
System operations

SOC 2 Type II Certification

For any company to receive SOC 2 Certification it must have sufficient policies and strategies that satisfactorily protect client's data pursuant to the SOC 2 specification. SOC 2 is designed for advanced IT service providers and includes a set of criteria called Trust Principals. Those include the security of the service provider's system, the processing integrity of the system, availability of the system, the privacy of personal information that the service provider collects, retains, uses, discloses and disposes of for user entities and the confidentiality of the information that the service provider's system processes or maintains for user entities. SOC 2 Type II certification has therefore proven that its system is designed to keep its clients' sensitive data secure. Such performance, reliability and security is essential when it comes to working in cloud environments.

"The SOC 2 examination has been a year-long process to complete, and shows Cloudera's commitment to provide customers with an independent clean opinion on the Security Trust Services Principle and Criteria on the company's controls relative to our cloud offerings. Customers not only require the flexibility to scale and optimize their on-premises workloads to any cloud instance but also with utmost confidence that their data will be secure," said Eddie Garcia, chief information security officer at Cloudera.

About Cloudera
Cloudera delivers the platform for machine learning and advanced analytics built on the latest open source technologies. The world's leading organizations trust Cloudera to help solve their most challenging business problems with Cloudera Enterprise, the fastest, easiest and most secure data platform available for the modern world. Our customers efficiently capture, store, process and analyze vast amounts of data, empowering them to use advanced analytics to drive business decisions quickly, flexibly and at lower cost than has been possible before. To ensure our customers are successful, we offer comprehensive support, training and professional services. Learn more at cloudera.com.

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