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Key Changes in the Final and Proposed Digital Content and Cloud Computing Regulations

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The U.S. Department of Treasury (Treasury) released final and proposed regulations under § 861 of the Code addressing the U.S. federal income tax classification of digital content and cloud computing transactions (the “Final...more

Epstein Becker & Green

In the Cloud: A Safe Place for Your Personal Data?

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As more organizations across industry sectors store personal data with cloud storage vendors— including the three largest vendors in the world, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform—federal...more

Nextpoint, Inc.

Managing Ediscovery In The Cloud: Essential Questions to Ask Potential Providers

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As we explained in our last post, managing ediscovery in the cloud is the only viable solution for dealing with the massive amount of electronic data involved in litigation today. Nextpoint has been an advocate for...more

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing

Checklist for Moving from an On-Premises to a Cloud Solution

The “shift to the cloud” continues, with analysts making bold predictions regarding the increase of cloud adoption by companies across almost every industry. Cloud solutions offer many cost, innovation, and scalability...more

Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co.

Do You Own a Database? You’re Also Responsible for Actions Performed by Third Parties

The Black Shadow hacking group’s attack on Cyberserve, reported a few days ago, has resulted (at this point in time) in the leaking of a database with more than 800,000 records pertaining to various individuals and the...more

The Volkov Law Group

SAP’s Comprehensive Export Control and Sanctions Settlement – A New Compliance Frontier for Cloud-Based Services (Part III of IV)

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The Justice Department’s National Security Division used the SAP comprehensive settlement of export control and sanctions violations to send a message – a loud and clear one....more

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing

Outsourcing 2021: A Year of Projected Growth and Our Top Five Challenges

As we noted in our Outsourcing 2021 webinar last week, a lot has happened and changed in the last 12 months since January 2020. There have been significant and unprecedented changes in the way our companies do business, the...more

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing

Contract Corner: Technology Transformation in Outsourcing Agreements (Part 1)

Transformation is often a critical component of outsourcing and managed services transactions. The transition of core or non-core functions to a third-party provider can provide an opportunity for the customer to leverage the...more

White & Case LLP

Operational resilience, third party risk management and impact tolerance in the time of Coronavirus

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On 5 December 2019 the Bank of England (Bank), UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published coordinated consultation papers and policy on new requirements to strengthen...more

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing

FSB Focuses on Financial Institutions’ Dependencies on Cloud

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) published on December 9, 2019, its report on financial institutions’ increasing reliance on third parties to provide cloud computing services (the Report)....more

BCLP

Getting The Deal Through - Cloud Computing 2020

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What kinds of cloud computing transactions take place in your jurisdiction? As a G7 economy with mature IT and related services markets, the UK is one of the most important global markets for cloud computing. According to...more

The Volkov Law Group

Lessons Learned from the Capital One Data Breach (Part I of III)

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Not to say, I told you so, but around the same time that the Capital One data breach occurred, I was reminding clients that nearly half of  all significant data breaches or cyber-incidents occur because of internal actors. ...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

A Hacker or Your Cloud Provider. Who Presents the Greatest Risk to Your Data?

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It’s your worst nightmare. All of your most important and sensitive data, the thing your business values most, the thing your company cannot operate without, the thing your regulators require you to protect, has been taken...more

BCLP

Cloud Computing

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Most companies today use some form of cloud computing whether through software-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service, or infrastructure-as-a-service. Cloud computing’s cost-effective scalability can offer significant advantages...more

White and Williams LLP

DoD Issues New Guidance to Drive Compliance with NIST 800-171 Cybersecurity Requirements

Is this a Start of Something New for Third-Party Management? The demand for responsible cybersecurity in business is ubiquitous. The need to protect information is not limited to the financial services, insurance and...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

Building a Health App? Part 5: Contracting for Health App Construction

As you take your health app from innovative idea to reality, you will be engaging in a development project that will likely entail the procurement of technology, services and perhaps even content from third parties. For...more

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Between the Clouds: Best Practices for Selecting Hosted Solutions in the Transportation and Logistics Industry

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Transportation and logistics providers are increasingly adopting cloud technology to bring connectivity and scale to their core operating systems. This trend will continue for the foreseeable future....more

Proskauer - Minding Your Business

A Cloud on the Horizon? Attorneys’ Obligations when Using a Third-Party’s Cloud-Based Services

When we think of clouds, we likely picture cumulus, stratus, and cirrus ones, not the type of “cloud” that holds data and software. The latter type of cloud is generally controlled by a third-party service provider and is...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Precedential Cloud Victory in Michigan Court of Appeals

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On October 27, 2015, a three-judge panel sitting for the Michigan Court of Appeals unanimously affirmed a lower court decision finding that the use of cloud-based services in Michigan is not subject to use tax in Auto-Owners...more

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California Joins Other States with the Passage of CalECPA

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Law enforcement requests for electronic information, particularly from technology companies such as Google and Twitter, have skyrocketed in recent years. In response, several states—Maine and Texas in 2013, Utah in 2014 and...more

Burr & Forman

TN Ethics Opinion Approves Lawyers’ Cloud Storage of Client Data

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Tennessee has joined other states in formally approving lawyers’ cloud-storage of client-confidential data. The Board of Professional Responsibility (“BOPR”) held that lawyers ethically may use cloud storage for...more

McGuireWoods LLP

Incentivizing Performance in Cloud and Outsourcing Contracts: Key Points

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Defining and incentivizing high-quality performance is often key to the structure of complex service or technology-oriented agreements. In this class of agreements, merely having a performance warranty that answers a yes or...more

BakerHostetler

From Sedona to Georgetown to New York—What’s Fashionable in eDiscovery This Year?

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It’s that time of year, when bench, bar, vendors, and clients think big eDiscovery thoughts. They go to The Sedona Conference (which is not in Sedona), Georgetown Law’s Advanced eDiscovery Institute (which is not at...more

Snell & Wilmer

Data Center Contracts: Privacy and Security Terms

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A sometimes overlooked but potentially significant liability exposure for any company that uses the “cloud” to remotely store, process or distribute data is the service provider contract between the company user and its data...more

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Privacy in the Cloud: A Legal Framework for Moving Personal Data to the Cloud

For many companies, the main question about cloud computing is no longer whether to move their data to the “cloud,” but how they can accomplish this transition. Cloud (or Internet-based on-demand) computing involves a shift...more

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