Monday, July 18, 2011

Can you comply with court orders for data from the cloud?

In this article by M. E. Kabay, PhD, CISSP-ISSMP and Gordon Merrill, MSIA, they conclude their series on security aspects of operating systems mobility and the cloud.

The very nature of cloud storage, and one of its selling points, is that the cloud is dynamic. You only use what you need and shut down what you don’t. A legal concern facing most companies today is legal hold orders and/or search warrants.  So if the court orders a forensic recovery of the lost data from the cloud hard drives can you comply?

http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/sec/2011/071811sec1.html

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