9 search results for "cloud computing"

Supreme Court Rules on the Privacy of Text Messages

Thursday, June 17th, 2010 at 1:44 pm

Sort of. The Supreme Court issued its ruling in Ontario v. Quon regarding a police chief reviewing the content of a police officer’s text messages with consent or a warrant. Many commenters hoped that the Court would issue a broad statement on an employee’s privacy rights in this age of cloud computing and web 2.0…. » Read More

Quon Roundup on Employee Computer Privacy

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 at 8:00 am

Lots of discussion about the Quon case focused on the lack of technology expertise by the Justices on the Supreme Court. Actually, most people labeled them as Luddites. DC Dicta even claims that Chief Justice Roberts writes his opinions in long hand with pen and paper. This issue that I am hoping to see addressed… » Read More

Social Media: Policy Formation & Risk Management

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 at 9:05 am

Today, I am in San Francisco at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference at the Moscone Center, speaking on a panel about social media policies. I gave a presentation on Cloud Computing at the 2009 version of the Conference in Boston: Evening in the Cloud and Compliance and a presentation on blogging at the 2008 version of… » Read More

Cloud Computing and Compliance

Friday, June 26th, 2009 at 12:55 pm

Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly and I talked  about “cloud computing” and how such IT systems can affect compliance. Listen to the conversation. (Time: 8.5 min.; file size: 7.7 Mb) Let’s try to define cloud computing a little better. It really encompasses a broad swath of services that can be put into three main groups…. » Read More

Evening in the Cloud and Compliance

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 at 8:00 am

The The Evening in the Cloud session at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference was fun. David Berlind Editor-At-Large and General Manager of TechWeb was the moderator. I sat in the customer role beside Christopher Reichert of the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium. Sean Poulley VP Online Collaboration Services of IBM, Rajen Sheth Senior Product Manager of Google… » Read More

Compliance and Cloud Computing at Enterprise 2.0

Monday, June 22nd, 2009 at 7:00 am

Monday night, I am heading over to the The Evening in the Cloud program at this year’s Enterprise 2.0 Conference. They asked me to help grill the vendors on compliance issue More software and business operations are being pushed into the cloud.  Why buy the hardware and software when someone else will run them for… » Read More

The Legal and Regulatory Implications of Internet Privacy

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 at 1:05 pm

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP and Protiviti presented a webinar on the legal implications of social networking. These are my notes. Rocco Grillo of Protiviti started off the presentation. Social networks have become part of many people’s day-to-day work. They have not replaced email, but are still robust communication tools. The first presenter offered the… » Read More

Speaking Engagements

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 at 12:48 pm

CCO Roundtable: Tactical Q&A with Top Compliance Officers to Help You Solve the Regulatory Puzzle Private Equity Tax & Compliance Practices 2010 June 2010 Post Social Media Policies: Practical Advice From The Trenches Enterprise 2.0 June 2010 Summary of the enterprise 2.0 policy panel Governing Social Media: How to Monitor, Manage and Make the Most… » Read More

Compliance and Cloud Computing

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 at 8:48 am

Sara Peters wrote and article on Security Provoked: How Can You Prove Compliance in the Cloud? Whether you’re in the midst of an audit or a forensic investigation, thorough logs are the key to proving compliance with security regulations. So how do you prove your organization is/was compliant when you aren’t able to maintain logs?… » Read More