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STAR Registry Listing for

Mercury IT

Founded in 2013 by the Cloud Security Alliance, the Security Trust Assurance and Risk (STAR) registry encompasses key principles of transparency, rigorous auditing, and cloud security and privacy best practices.

Mercury IT

We provide our own cloud Infrastructure as a Service platform (IaaS) which includes the following features:

Physical security with security patrol guards, limited access, locked rooms and locked racks
Includes cost of power, backup power in event of local outage and Air Cooling
Multiple redundancy points for host server and SAN infrastructure
Redundant internet connections
Scalable infrastructure that can be upgraded (CPU, memory and storage) at a moments notice
99.99% uptime SLAs
NZ located support team that have extensive knowledge of Microsoft RDS services
Advanced security features with a firewall that includes Intrusion Protection, Anti-virus
Support both Windows and Linux servers
Support many software dev platforms (Dotnetnuke, WordPress, Silverstripe, etc)
Backups managed with 1 hour restore point
Replication between to sites to support geographic diversity required for DR
Microsoft Hyper-v software solutions
IBM/Leveno servers and SAN equipment

Information about Mercury IT
Listed Since: 04/12/2022
Last Updated: 04/12/2022

STAR Level 1

Self-Assessment & Partner-Provided

Consensus Assessments Initiative Questionnaire v4.0.2

CAIQ 4.0.2 Self-assessment
Offers an industry-accepted way to document what security controls exist in IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services. It provides a set of Yes/No questions a cloud consumer and cloud auditor may wish to ask of a cloud provider to ascertain their compliance to the CSA Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM).
(Deprecated)
Deprecated assessments do not necessarily indicate non-compliance. In this case, the self-assessment has not been updated in more than one year. We suggest contacting this organization directly to request that they submit an updated self-assessment.