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What Employers Need to Know About Cloud Computing



Thursday, October 27, 2011
Product Code - HRAU01
Speaker(s): Tanya L. Forsheit, Founding Partner, InfoLawGroup LLP
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Cloud computing is revolutionizing the way companies meet information technology and business needs. Some of the many benefits of cloud computing include rapid deployment, flexible scalability, and decreased hardware, software and personnel costs. Cloud computing presents many risks as well, including those related to the privacy of information, data location, level of service, and security infrastructure. For example, companies that move systems such as payroll and e-mail to the cloud may find such data inaccessible if cloud providers fail to live up to standards of dependability. This can result in a number of legal ramifications and costly internal business impediments, such as a company’s inability to pay employees or conduct other critical services. This webinar will address several issues any company considering cloud computing should keep in mind, including:

  • The benefits and risks of cloud computing;
  • Preparing for the cloud by using comprehensive project assessments and risk analyses, developing information security and vendor management programs, and implementing oversight mechanisms and other tools;
  • Conducting thorough cloud vendor due diligence; and
  • Contracting for cloud services to mitigate risks and liabilities by addressing: data location, security, and subcontractor transparency; subcontractor due diligence and contractual obligations; data ownership and use limitations; response to legal process; data retention and access; incident response; and indemnification, limits of liability, and enforcement.

Tanya L. Forsheit, Founding Partner, InfoLawGroup LLP

 Forsheit
Tanya L. Forsheit is a Founding Partner of InfoLawGroup LLP and a former partner with Proskauer, where she was Co-Chair of that firm’s Privacy and Data Security practice group.  She is the President of the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles.  In 2009, Ms. Forsheit was named one of the Los Angeles Daily Journal’s Top 100 women litigators in California.

Certified as an information privacy professional by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (“IAPP”), she works with clients to address legal requirements and best practices for protection of customer and employee information.  Ms. Forsheit advises companies, from multinationals to startups, on all aspects of privacy and data security compliance, contracts, policies and procedures (including complex regulatory schemes such as HIPAA and Gramm-Leach-Bliley).  She negotiates cloud computing arrangements on behalf of enterprise customers, has advised on dozens of data security breaches, and represents organizations in FTC investigations involving privacy and data security.  Ms. Forsheit brings her litigation experience and cloud computing and social media knowledge to bear in counseling clients on thorny issues in data management, information protection, and e-discovery.