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Legal, compliance, and audit

Legal, compliance, and audit

- [Instructor] Some of the hardest challenges relating to cloud come from cloud security domains three and four, which covered the areas of legal compliance and audit. These can often be the hidden traps in cloud initiatives, overshadowed by the more obvious technical risks. Both public and private organizations are subject to legislation, regulations, contracts and other mandates, which contains security obligations. These are increasingly focusing on protection of data and security of information systems. Regulations, such as the health insurance portability and accountability act and Sarbanes-Oxley requires specific IT control compliance. The global payment card industry data security standard affects all organizations that take credit card payments. These standards require that specific controls are used to protect information and often extend that requirement to service providers. Governments around the world are publishing…

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