Common use of Minimum Security Standards Clause in Contracts

Minimum Security Standards. Cognizant agrees to implement and maintain commercially reasonable and appropriate administrative, technical, organizational, and physical controls designed to provide a level of security appropriate to the risk and to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of Protected Data (“Security Standards”), including: (i) controls designed to secure facilities, infrastructure, data centers, servers, hard copy files, systems, equipment, applications, and devices used to Access Protected Data, including controls to monitor, prevent, detect, and respond to Security Incidents; (ii) policies and practices limiting Access to Protected Data only to Authorized Persons; and (iii) procedures to regularly assess and evaluate the effectiveness of the Security Standards.