CHAPTER 6

Legal and Compliance Domain

Domain 6 is focused on the following topics:

•  Legal risks and controls relating to cloud computing

•  eDiscovery and forensic requirements

•  Laws pertaining to PII

•  Audit types

•  Audit processes in a cloud environment

•  Risk management as it pertains to the cloud

•  Outsourcing to a cloud and overseeing the contract

Cloud computing presents many unique challenges on the legal and policy fronts because it often crosses jurisdictional lines that will have different rules and regulations as to data privacy and protection. Although auditing all IT systems is a very critical and sensitive process, a cloud environment presents unique challenges and requirements for auditing because cloud customers will ...

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