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Information Security. Cloud Computing – A Commercial and Legal Perspective 

By Gurbir Dated: September 15, 2014 2 Comments

A  joint meeting from the Institute for Information Security Professionals (IISP) and the Manchester Branch of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT. This is a free  event and open to anyone with an interest in information security. No need to book just turn up. 
 
Speaker: Dai Davis from Percy Crow Davis & Co.
Date: 18th November 2014
Time: 18:00 for 18:30 start
Title: Cloud Computing – A commercial and legal perspective 
Cost: Free. Refreshments provided
Venue: Room E232, MMU, John Dalton Building, Chester Street, Manchester, M1 5GD
 

Cloud computing has been an information technology (IT) buzzword for many years and now it’s firmly ensconced in the mainstream of ICT and business.  Various forms of cloud computing, such as “Software as a Service” (SaaS) provide a more cost-effective alternative for enterprises to achieve their business objectives than traditional computing systems.

In some areas of business, such as records management, cloud computing has high visibility because it is associated with large costs savings.  However, cloud computing can be used in a less high profile manner in other areas of a business, from marketing to engineering, from contact database management to employee management and word processing. Cloud computing can be easily adopted, but with that adoption can come both obvious and hidden difficulties of great importance.

But is cloud computing for everyone? What are the contractual and legal risks of cloud computing? How should they be addressed? How can they be minimised and avoided? This talk examines how cloud computing can be adopted and the dangers avoided on a practical level.

  • Among the aspects of cloud computing that Dai will cover are:
  • What is the relationship between cloud computing, SaaS and similar services?
  • How, when and why is cloud computing used in companies?
  • How, when and why should cloud computing be used?
  • Security due diligence and data security implications
  • Control and ownership of data in the cloud
  • Dealing with termination and other practical issues

About the Speaker
Dai is a Technology Lawyer. He read Physics at Keble College, Oxford and took a Masters Degree in Computing Science at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne before qualifying as a Solicitor.  He is a qualified Chartered Engineer and Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.  Dai is an active member of the Society for Computers and Law in the United Kingdom and has been Chairman of its Northern Branch and a member of the Council of that Society.  Dai has consistently been recommended in the Legal 500 and in Chambers Guides to the Legal Profession.

www.daidavis.com

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IISP NW Regional Meetings

By Gurbir Dated: July 28, 2013 Leave a Comment

The videos below are recordings of the NW regional branch meetings of the Institute of Information Security Professional (IISP) recorded in Manchester. The videos and  slides  are made available with the consent of the speakers who remain the copyright owners.

The next meeting, a joint one with the Chartered Institute for IT in Greater Manchester. It is on the evening of 16th September 2013 with Michael Colao entitled “The outlook is cloudy:  How to screw up a cloud implementation or Why almost every cloud security talk you have ever heard is wrong“. Register free here

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11th June  2013 by Professor Fred Piper from Royal Holloway University London, on “Cryptography – From Black Art to Popular Science”. Slides  here.

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23 May 2013 by Kawser Hamid, lead policy officer from the Information Commissioner’s Office on the theme of “Data Protection in the Cloud”. A technical issue (the battery packed up!) meant I only had the first 20 minutes. I thought it was still worth uploading.  Slides  here.

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15th November 2012 by Will Roebuck from www.eradar.eu on the theme of  security  associated with doing business online. Slides  here.

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5th July 2012 by Stephen Porter from Trend Mirco Limited on the theme of cloud security. Slides here.

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Jim Reavis – Cloud Security Alliance

By Gurbir Dated: May 1, 2013 Leave a Comment

Jim reavis

A short interview with Jim Revis recorded in London on 24th April during InfoSec 2013. In this interview Jim talks about the evolving definition of of Cloud Computing, the CSA’s Star Registry, CSA’s Cloud Computing Security Knowledge certification and his take on how cloud Computing has been and is evolving.

During the interview, Jim refers to a collaborative program between the CSA and (ISC)2 to create a new  professional certification in Cloud Security. More details here.

For my earlier post on CCSK with a downloadable full text pdf – see here

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Ben Kepes – Future of Cloud Computing

By Gurbir Dated: September 27, 2012 Leave a Comment

Ben Kepes

When I speak to anyone in a time zone with a 12 hours difference and in opposite hemispheres it implies we are about as far as two people on the planet can be. You can play or download the recording at the bottom of this page.

Ben is known for amongst other things, as the curator of CloudU. He has been speaking about Cloud Computing from a business perspectives long before it became trendy to do so.

We spoke about CloudU,  CSA’s CCSK and the future of Cloud Computing and its relationship with Open Source.

Links to some of the topics we discussed include.

CloudU

Ben’s Blog

Future of Cloud Computing video from Oscon

Cloud Security Alliance – Cloud Computing Security Knowledge and my blog post  discussing the pros and cons of CCSK.

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