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Legal Issues Contracts & Electronic Discovery Source: CSA Security Guidance Report v.3 Presented by: Toby Tobkin – toby.tobkin@gmail.com 1
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Motivation why i chose this topic 2
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Privacy Law 3
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Data Privacy Data on the Internet is vulnerable I won’t show a proof for this 4
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Data Privacy Data on the Internet is vulnerable I won’t show a proof for this Burden of protection of personal data is on organizations in some regions 5
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Data Privacy Data on the Internet is vulnerable I won’t show a proof for this Burden of protection of personal data is on organizations in some regions Some regional organizations that mandate this: OECD: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development APEC: Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation EEA: European Economic Arena 6
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Examples of US Privacy Laws Federal Laws: GLBA, HIPAA, COPPA FTC orders 7
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Examples of US Privacy Laws Federal Laws: GLBA, HIPAA, COPPA FTC orders State Generally: reasonable security measures must be in place including with subcontractors 8
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Privacy by Contract If some aspect of privacy isn’t regulated, it could still be specified by a contract but you knew that Company using cloud service may Have a contractual obligation to protect employee data it’s storing Want to protect their trade secrets stored in the cloud Have a privacy contract with their customers Specify that data can only be used for certain purposes 9
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Contracts 10
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Concepts Data custodian 11
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Concepts Data custodian Due diligence 12
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Cloud E- Discovery Issues 13
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Discovery Phase In litigation, this comes prior to the trial Philosophy: neither party should be able to keep secrets from each other 14
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Discovery: Problems Data that may be demanded might not be under a party’s control Might be on a third party’s backup system Or something Problem: whose obligation is it to produce requested information? According to this document: it depends 15
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Discovery: Problems Standard e-discovery tools may not work 16
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Discovery: Problems Standard e-discovery tools may not work Rules on preservation don’t seem to be clear who pays for storage? client? service provider? what constitutes “relevant” information to a litigation? what about programmatically purged data? 17
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Discovery: Problems Standard e-discovery tools may not work Rules on preservation don’t seem to be clear who pays for storage? client? service provider? what constitutes “relevant” information to a litigation? what about programmatically purged data? Collection can be difficult Limited bandwidth Limited client functionality Physical forensics could be overly intrusive on something like EC2 18
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Discovery: Problems Standard e-discovery tools may not work Rules on preservation don’t seem to be clear who pays for storage? client? service provider? what constitutes “relevant” information to a litigation? what about programmatically purged data? Collection can be difficult Limited bandwidth Limited client functionality Physical forensics could be overly intrusive on something like EC2 Native production 19
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Discovery: Solutions Have terms in service agreement about e-discovery e.g. accessing large amounts of data at once when bandwidth is usually limited 20
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