We are thrilled to announce that Heroku Shield Key-Value Store is now generally available and certified for handling PHI, PII, and HIPAA-compliant data. Heroku Shield Key-Value Store is the final missing data service for Heroku Shield, which is an integrated set of Heroku services with additional security features needed for building high compliance applications. All Heroku Managed Data Services — Heroku Connect, Heroku Key-Value Store, Heroku Postgres, and Apache Kafka on Heroku — are now fully certified for handling PHI, PII, and HIPAA-compliant data as part of Heroku Shield. Security and compliance come standard with Heroku Shield, so developers and enterprises can focus solely on...

We are thrilled to announce that Apache Kafka on Heroku Shield is now generally available and certified for handling PHI, PII, and HIPAA-compliant data. Our newest managed data service unifies Heroku Shield, a set of Heroku platform services that offer additional security features needed for building high compliance applications, with Apache Kafka on Heroku, our fully-managed service based on the leading open-source solution for handling event streams.

Organizations of all sizes face relentless pressure to bring better apps and experiences to market, and those with a strong focus on data security like Health and Life Sciences (HLS) organizations need to balance safety and agility. Their...

Today we are proud to announce that Heroku has achieved several important compliance milestones that provide third party validation of our security best practices:

• ISO 27001 Certification: Widely recognized and internationally accepted information security standard that specifies security management best practices and comprehensive security controls following ISO 27002 best practices guidance.
• ISO 27017 Certification: A standard that provides additional guidance and implementation advice on information security aspects specific to cloud computing.
• ISO 27018 Certification: Establishes commonly accepted control objectives, controls and guidelines for implementing measures to protect...

Today we are pleased to announce general availability of Heroku Shield Connect, the latest addition to our lineup of Heroku Shield services.

Heroku Shield, announced last year, enabled new capabilities for Dynos, Postgres databases and Private Spaces that make Heroku suitable for high compliance environments such as those that fall under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations. Heroku Shield Connect extends this offering by enabling high performance, fully automated, and bi-directional data synchronization between Salesforce and Heroku Postgres for companies that need to build HIPAA-compliant applications - all in a matter of a few clicks.

With this...

Today we are happy to announce Heroku Shield, a new addition to our Heroku Enterprise line of products. Heroku Shield introduces new capabilities to Dynos, Postgres databases and Private Spaces that make Heroku suitable for high compliance environments such as healthcare apps regulated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). With Heroku Shield, the power and productivity of Heroku is now easily available to a whole new class of strictly regulated apps.