http://canton.elegal.ca/2008/10/01/cloud-computing-controversy/ eLegal Canton: technology law blog by a Canadian information technology and intellectual property law lawyer and trade-mark agent dealing with issues including software, copyright, privacy, the Internet, electronic commerce, computers Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:40:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://canton.elegal.ca/2008/10/01/cloud-computing-controversy/comment-page-1/#comment-3232 Michael N. Dundas » Cloud computing, security vulerabilities and responsibility Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:12:31 +0000 http://canton.elegal.ca/?p=855#comment-3232 [...] I have done a lot of consulting for law firms over the years and this is slowly becoming a bigger issue for them.  Law firms, medical offices, financial institutions, and any other business have personal and private data from their clients that needs to remain confidential and  in their control.  For example, what happens if you are a law firm that chooses to store their client data offsite using a third party company that in turn uses cloud computing services which you may or may not be aware of.  There are many good reasons to do this such as cost, decrease in requirement for I.T. infrastructure, decrease need  to hire staff or pay consultants to keep software and systems up-to-date.   Any technical issues are the responsibility of the hired company, not the firm.   Now if the cloud computing company has a security vulnerability that takes them time to fix and during that time someone uses that vulerability to extract the law firms data who is to blame?  The law firm for choosing to not keep control of their data, the company that the law firm purchased services from, or the third party cloud computing company?  David Canton wrote about cloud computing concerns this fall. [...] [...] I have done a lot of consulting for law firms over the years and this is slowly becoming a bigger issue for them.  Law firms, medical offices, financial institutions, and any other business have personal and private data from their clients that needs to remain confidential and  in their control.  For example, what happens if you are a law firm that chooses to store their client data offsite using a third party company that in turn uses cloud computing services which you may or may not be aware of.  There are many good reasons to do this such as cost, decrease in requirement for I.T. infrastructure, decrease need  to hire staff or pay consultants to keep software and systems up-to-date.   Any technical issues are the responsibility of the hired company, not the firm.   Now if the cloud computing company has a security vulnerability that takes them time to fix and during that time someone uses that vulerability to extract the law firms data who is to blame?  The law firm for choosing to not keep control of their data, the company that the law firm purchased services from, or the third party cloud computing company?  David Canton wrote about cloud computing concerns this fall. [...]

]]> http://canton.elegal.ca/2008/10/01/cloud-computing-controversy/comment-page-1/#comment-1484 Kaizen Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:10:30 +0000 http://canton.elegal.ca/?p=855#comment-1484 [...] I have done a lot of consulting for law firms over the years and this is slowly becoming a bigger issue for them.  Law firms, medical offices, financial institutions, and any other business have personal and private data from their clients that needs to remain confidential and  in their control.  For example, what happens if you are a law firm that chooses to store their client data offsite using a third party company that in turn uses cloud computing services which you may or may not be aware of.  There are many good reasons to do this such as cost, decrease in requirement for I.T. infrastructure, decrease need  to hire staff or pay consultants to keep software and systems up-to-date.   Any technical issues are the responsibility of the hired company, not the firm.   Now if the cloud computing company has a security vulnerability that takes them time to fix and during that time someone uses that vulerability to extract the law firms data who is to blame?  The law firm for choosing to not keep control of their data, the company that the law firm purchased services from, or the third party cloud computing company?  David Canton wrote about cloud computing concerns this fall. [...] [...] I have done a lot of consulting for law firms over the years and this is slowly becoming a bigger issue for them.  Law firms, medical offices, financial institutions, and any other business have personal and private data from their clients that needs to remain confidential and  in their control.  For example, what happens if you are a law firm that chooses to store their client data offsite using a third party company that in turn uses cloud computing services which you may or may not be aware of.  There are many good reasons to do this such as cost, decrease in requirement for I.T. infrastructure, decrease need  to hire staff or pay consultants to keep software and systems up-to-date.   Any technical issues are the responsibility of the hired company, not the firm.   Now if the cloud computing company has a security vulnerability that takes them time to fix and during that time someone uses that vulerability to extract the law firms data who is to blame?  The law firm for choosing to not keep control of their data, the company that the law firm purchased services from, or the third party cloud computing company?  David Canton wrote about cloud computing concerns this fall. [...]

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