CHAPTER 7

Legal, Risk, and Compliance

This chapter covers the following topics in Domain 6:

•   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 front because it often crosses jurisdictional lines that 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, as a cloud customer ...

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