Third Party Confirms Liquid Web Meets HIPAA/HITECH Requirements

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Nov 06, 2017, 08:00 ET

LANSING, Mich., Nov. 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Liquid Web, LLC, (www.liquidweb.com), the market leader in managed hosting services to SMBs and web professionals, is proud to announce their dedicated and cloud dedicated solutions are compliant with HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) guidelines.

UHY LLP, an independent accounting firm, has validated Liquid Web's assertion that their solutions comply with HIPAA/HITECH security and privacy guidelines, including administrative, physical and technical safeguard measures. This announcement is important for our clients that store ePHI or PHI and any other sensitive data and for customers who have verification and reporting obligations to run their business.

"Completing this rigorous audit gives our customers confidence that we are meeting their needs for a compliant solutions provider. With an increase of growing threats online, and an increase on HIPAA violation fines and fees, maintaining this compliance ensures Liquid Web's policies and procedures are appropriate and followed to not only meet but exceed government guidelines. Our continued focus on exceeding compliance expectations means our clients can be assured that we have the physical and technical safeguards in place and our processes, policies, and network security are all focused on protecting our customer's data with the highest standards," says Carrie Wheeler, Chief Operating Officer.

Liquid Web has also recently completed and passed their EU- US and Swiss-US, Privacy Shield audit, SOC 1, 2, 3 attestations, and the PCI Service Provider recertification. Passing these audits is important to stay competitive and provide Liquid Web customers with assurance of physical, network and administrative controls to meet a broad variety of standards.

The level of compliance that Liquid Web has obtained supports our strategy to power the potential of Web dependent professionals with a premium, reliable, highly-available, secure and hassle-free hosting experience. If an SMB business relies on their web and cloud infrastructure we want them to rely on Liquid Web.

To learn more about our HIPAA compliance ready solutions visit https://www.liquidweb.com/solutions/hipaa-compliant-hosting/.

About Liquid Web

Marking its 20th year anniversary, Liquid Web powers content, commerce and potential for SMB entrepreneurs and the designers, developers and digital agencies who create for them. An industry leader in managed hosting and cloud services, Liquid Web is known for its high-performance services and exceptional customer support. Liquid Web offers a broad portfolio designed so customers can choose a hosting solution that is hands-on or hands-off or a hybrid of the two. The company owns and manages its own core data centers, providing a diverse range of offerings spanning from bare metal servers and fully managed hosting to managed WordPress and continues to evolve its service offerings to meet the ever-changing needs of its web-reliant, professional customers. With over 32,000 customers spanning 150 countries, the company has assembled a world-class team, global data centers and an expert group of 24/7/365 solution engineers. As an industry leader in customer service*, the rapidly expanding company has been recognized among INC Magazine's 5000 Fastest Growing Companies for ten years. Liquid Web is part of the Madison Dearborn Partners family of companies. Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC ("MDP") is a leading private equity investment firm based in Chicago. For more information, please visit www.liquidweb.com, or read our blog posts at http://www.liquidweb.com/blog. Stay up to date with all Liquid Web events on Twitter and LinkedIn.

*2016 Net Promoter Score of 71

Contact: Mayra Pena, 1-800-580-4985, ext. 5899, [email protected]

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