Cloud service certifications (CSC) attempt to assure a high level of security and compliance. However, considering that cloud services are part of an ever-changing environment, multi-year validity periods may put in doubt reliability of such certifications. We argue that continuous auditing (CA)...

Shadow IT is a term describing users or whole lines of business, who go outside of their organization's IT group to meet their IT needs. A disconnect often exists between what IT users feel they need and what the IT services group is prepared to deliver. Shadow IT's destination is often the...

So many of our daily activities now take place “in the cloud,” where we use our devices to tap into massive networks that span the globe. Virtually every time that we plug into a new service, the service requires us to click the seemingly ubiquitous box indicating that we have read and...

The use of the internet as a tool in the commission of crime has given rise to new search and seizure issues. When individuals use the internet, their personal information may be transmitted to various online service providers, such as social networking websites, email service providers, and...

Where data centres located in the European Economic Area ('EEA') are utilised for cloud computing services, the customers, and in some circumstances even cloud service providers, could become subject to the EU Data Protection Directive on the basis that the data centre may be an...

We are in the midst of a revolution within computing. It goes under the name of cloud computing. Analysts estimate that in 2012, the size of the enterprise cloud-computing business may reach $60 billion to $80 billion – or about 10% of the global IT-service and enterprise-software market...

The principal thesis of this comment is that the free flow of personal information that respects privacy can fuel and cultivate innovation. The growth of cloud computing has led to a corresponding growth of user data stored on third party servers. While technology has advanced, privacy...

The Silicon Flatirons Center convened 43 leaders from the legal, academic, and business community (collectively, “the Roundtable”) on January 10, 2013. The Roundtable discussed the risks of cloud computing and how businesses generally, and the health care and energy sectors specifically, can...