Chapter 6Legal, Risk, and Compliance
The cloud offers companies and individuals access to vast amounts of computing power at economies of scale made possible only by distributed architectures. However, those same distributed architectures can bring a unique set of risks and legal challenges to companies due to the geographic distribution of the cloud infrastructure. The cloud, similar to the Internet, allows data to flow freely across national borders and facilitates storage and processing in data centers worldwide. Determining what laws apply to cloud computing environments is an ongoing challenge. The cloud service provider (CSP) can be based in one country, operate data centers across multiple countries, and serve customers in even more ...
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