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Category: Cloud Computing

Ponemon Study: 73% Believe Cloud Providers Do Not Protect User’s Confidential Information

Growing scrutiny of cloud computing security in the first half of this year is not surprising in light of the numerous data breaches, privacy issues and headline grabbing cloud outages that have occurred recently. (See Amazon EC2 outage, Amazon Cloud Drive Terms of Use, DropBox privacy concerns, Epsilon breach, etc.). On the heels of this […]

“Contracting for Cloud Computing” Free Webinar Now Available On Demand

Last week, Attorney Richard Santalesa presented a free one-hour webinar on Contracting for Cloud Computing in conjunction with Zenith Infotech, Ltd and MSPtv.  The feedback received was very positive and our presentation covered a wide-ranging number of contracting issues specifically applicable to cloud computing scenarios. This next installment in our webinar series on cloud computing […]

Update: Video archive version of last week’s cloud webinar now available

Update: In the event you were unable to attend last week’s webinar covering various Legal Issues of Cloud Computing, an archived video version is available for viewing at your convenience at: http://event.on24.com/r.htm?e=285427&s=1&k=DE81EEFD2A15B72713DB88007F7C2AA6 for the next 30 days, and then thereafter in the MSPtv video archives. Attorneys, Richard Santalesa and Boris Segalis, are presenting the first […]

NIST Issues Two New Draft Cloud Computing Documents, A Call for Public Comment and a Cloud Wiki

Last week the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency within the Department of Commerce, released for public comment two “new” draft documents centered on cloud computing. The first is a NIST-codified Definition of Cloud Computing (Draft SP 800-145), and the second document is what NIST calls “the first set of guidelines for […]

White House CIO Council Releases Draft Guidance on U.S. Govt Cloud Computing

A draft release of a 90-page Proposed Security Assessment and Authorization for U.S. Government Cloud Computing was distributed by the White House CIO Council yesterday, curiously numbered a 0.96 release.  A product of FedRAMP (the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program), the guidance draft is the result of an 18-month inter-agency effort by the National Institute […]

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