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Compliance in the Cloud
Regulations and standards such as HIPAA, SOX and PCI-DSS, require many organizations to evaluate their data protection measures. Moving to the cloud has a direct impact on an organizations ability to comply with these regulations. Let’s talk about two of the more challenging characteristics of cloud computing that can give organizations headaches while trying to maintain compliance.
Posted in Cloud Computing, Security
Regulation on the Horizon for Cloud Services
It appears like the regulatory heat is about to be turned up on cloud computing services.
Spurred by last years high profile outages amongst cloud computing finest services including Gmail, Windows Azure, and Salesforce.com, the FTC will hold a privacy roundtable Jan. 28th. The FTC has decided this should be part of the public debate concerning its recommendations for the FCC’s upcoming broadband plan coming early this year. More »
Posted in Cloud Computing, Privacy