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Don’t Wait for 2028: Modernize Your eDiscovery Infrastructure Today

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In January, Relativity announced that Relativity Server will no longer accept new matters beginning in 2028. Recently, they reinforced that message with a clear call to action: the future of eDiscovery is in the cloud—and the...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

FedRAMP 20x Initiative Promises Major Changes for Federal Cloud Service Providers

Major changes are coming again to the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program ("FedRAMP"), the federal government's cybersecurity authorization program for cloud service providers ("CSPs")....more

Holland & Knight LLP

GSA Announces Overhaul of FedRAMP with Emphasis on Industry Input and Automation

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The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) recently announced plans to develop the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) 20x – a new approach to the government-wide program for the security...more

Morgan Lewis

Data Center Operations: Aligning Supply Chain, Compliance, and Customer Expectations

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The demand for data centers is continuing to accelerate, fueled largely by generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI), broader digital transformation, and organizations migrating to cloud infrastructure. Gen AI adoption...more

Wiley Rein LLP

FedRAMP Announces New Approach to Assessing Security of Cloud Services Providers, Leveraging Commercial Practices and Tools

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WHAT: FedRAMP has announced that it will be working on a new framework for authorization and assessment of cloud services for federal consumption, calling the initiative “FedRAMP 20X” (announcement here). In response to...more

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Data Centers: A Field Guide

By one count, worldwide there were some 11,800 data centers in early 2024. Within that census are facilities so small that they fit in office building closets, while others are among the largest manmade structures on the...more

Ankura

Cybercriminals Are Moving into the Cloud and Making Your Active Directory Their New Home

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Financially motivated cybercriminals are increasingly targeting Cloud environments in their ransomware and/or extortion attacks. The attack activity of two (2) threat groups in particular – Octo Tempest (AKA Scattered Spider)...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

[Event] Advanced Forum on Global Export Controls - February 25th - 26th, Arlington, VA

Looking for something more advanced than your average export controls conference? Go beyond the basics at ACI’s 2nd Annual Advanced Forum on Global Export Controls. This premier event offers cutting-edge insights and...more

Stikeman Elliott LLP

An Opportunity for Alberta and Canada to Lead Globally on Data Centres

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As the increasingly broad application of artificial intelligence (“AI”) transforms our business and societal needs, Alberta is in a unique position to take the lead on developing and hosting the required infrastructure to...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

FDA Clinical Investigations: New Guidance on Electronic Systems

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On October 2, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released guidance in a question and answer format regarding the use of electronic systems, electronic records, and electronic signatures in clinical...more

BakerHostetler

FedRAMP Rewritten: OMB Publishes Guidance with FedRAMP’s Updated Vision, Scope and Governance Structure

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To dramatically scale up the Modernizing the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) marketplace, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has completely rewritten FedRAMP’s vision, scope and governance...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

New Prohibitions on Providing SaaS Services to Russia

In line with Group of Seven (G7) efforts to disrupt the Russian military-industrial base’s reliance on foreign IT systems, in June 2024 the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Department of the Treasury jointly issued new...more

IR Global

The Rising Costs of On-Premises Document Management Systems: A Call to Action for Law Firms

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Although there was a big post-pandemic push to move to the cloud, some law firms still find themselves at a crossroads between maintaining their traditional on-premises document management system (DMS) and transitioning to...more

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US imposes new sanctions and export controls against Russia

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On June 12, 2024, the U.S. Department of Treasury (Treasury), U.S. Department of State (State), and U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) announced another round of sanctions and export controls targeting Russia. In this...more

BCLP

The French Law on the Regulation of Games Including NFT is Passed: Place Your Bets

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We have been talking about it since last year: the bill to secure and regulate the digital space ("SREN") has now been passed. The legislative process leading up to the enactment of the SREN bill has been slow (as a reminder:...more

TransPerfect Legal

Three Strategies to Prevent Departing Employees from Absconding with Trade Secrets and Other Confidential Business Information

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One of the biggest threats to modern corporations involves departing employees who take confidential business information (CBI) and/or trade secrets with them prior to or upon their departure. Indeed, the misappropriation of...more

Opportune LLP

On-Prem Servers vs Azure Cloud: Choosing the RightAngle…

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In today's digital landscape, businesses face a choice when implementing RightAngle, do they use their existing on-prem servers and infrastructure, or do they create a new infrastructure and provision servers for the...more

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Minutes Matter in Modern Legal Practice

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In litigation and investigations, every minute matters.  Having access to information at a moment’s notice can be critical.  Imagine, a settlement agreement comes in after hours and the partner on the case needs to know the...more

Wiley Rein LLP

Update: FAR Council Proposes Pair of Major Cybersecurity Rules for Government Contracts

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WHAT: As we previously reported here, on October 3, 2023, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council (FAR Council) proposed a pair of major cybersecurity rules intended to implement key parts of President Biden’s May 2021...more

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New Cybersecurity FAR Rules Poised to Have a Major Impact on Contractors

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The Federal Acquisition Regulatory (FAR) Council on Oct. 3, 2023, issued two proposed rules to partially implement President Biden's Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity. The first proposed rule imposes...more

Gould + Ratner LLP

Constructing a Data Center: 2023 Update

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Although there is a recent trend of employees returning to the office on a more regular basis, continued reliance on and demand for data centers that help support remote and hybrid work only appear to be increasing. For...more

Morgan Lewis

Planning for the Exit: How to Terminate Cloud Relationships

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Cloud technology is one of the most dominant forms of technology used by companies today. In short, everyone and everything is in the cloud. Given the increased use of the cloud for enterprise-wide and critical business...more

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing

Experience Level Agreements Are on the Rise

IT service provider performance has long been measured by service level agreements (SLAs) that set quantifiable standards for many aspects of a sourcing arrangement. These standards range from how quickly customer support is...more

Venable LLP

Identity as a Key Enabler for Cloud

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Legacy identity and access management (IAM) is often considered a cumbersome, complex, and archaic monolith. In particular, legacy IAM often requires lengthy development time for updates and onboarding new applications,...more

Lighthouse

IT at the Helm: Change Management for Cloud-Based SaaS is Key to Minimizing Risk

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Cloud computing dates to the mid-1990s – so why is this relatively old concept still such a hot topic? Haven’t we figured it all out by now? And isn’t the benefit of today’s SaaS cloud environments that someone else, namely...more

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