Aon eSolutions goes to the cloud with RIScloud
Aon eSolutions, the technology solutions business of Aon Corporation has launched RIScloud, a new community cloud solution for the risk, insurance and safety management community.
“With all of the noise out there, it is tempting to think that a cloud is a cloud is a cloud,” said CEO Kathleen Burns. “We’re seeing that misperception fall away as our clients are introduced to RIScloud.”
Some cloud solutions providers outsource key components of their cloud-technology infrastructure, but Aon eSolutions fully manages and controls RIScloud. The business invested in a comprehensive end-to-end community cloud solution (as opposed to following the commodity cloud model, for which outsourcing to third parties is foundational). Aon eSolutions took this direction for the purpose of most thoroughly mitigating the inherent exposures faced by its clients in their stewardship of sensitive, highly regulated data.
Aon eSolutions said its fully-managed involvement allows the company to adhere to the high security standards specific to the needs of the risk, insurance and safety community; for example, the business is the first and only cloud provider in the risk, insurance and safety management community to provide full data encryption at rest, which means that every client record is encrypted in its entirety—not just selected fields.
“We encourage the community to evaluate its cloud options as rigorously as they would any risk scenario,” added Burns.
RIScloud provides service levels and metrics that apply to each stage of the data life cycle, including:
- Data hosting
- Transmission
- Application performance
- Data security and privacy
- External certifications
- Regulatory compliance
“With RIScloud, Aon eSolutions alone is fully accountable to our hosted clients, including their compliance needs,” said Paul Holden, CIO of Aon eSolutions. “This means we are not only helping our clients meet today’s regulations; we are looking ahead to identify regulations on the horizon and implement those standards ahead of time.”
