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Lowenstein Sandler LLP

UPDATE: Organizations Using the Salesloft Drift AI Chat Agent Must Check It for Compromise

On August 28th, Mandiant issued an update to its previous Salesloft Drift advisory. Therein, Mandiant discussed that Salesloft issued a security notification on Aug. 26 regarding its Drift application. At that time, it...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Salesforce Users: Organizations Using the Salesloft Drift AI Chat Agent with Salesforce Must Check Their Presence for Compromise

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Salesloft issued a security notification on August 26 regarding its Drift application. It appears to be a broad opportunistic attack on Salesloft/Drift instances integrated with Salesforce tenants. Salesloft issued updates...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

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing

US Government’s Cloud Expansion Continues

As discussed in a post from last month, annual spending worldwide on cloud services continues to rise with an expected increase up to $332 billion by the end of 2021, which is an increase from $270 billion in 2020. While the...more

Perkins Coie

President Biden’s Cybersecurity Executive Order Focuses on IT and Software Supply Chain Vulnerabilities

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On May 12, 2021, President Biden signed a sweeping Executive Order (EO) to protect federal government networks and software supply chains against increasing threats of attacks from malicious cyber actors, setting the stage...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Using M&A Insurance on Tech Deals (Issue 2): Software/SaaS, Internet Telephony and On-Demand

In our first issue, we looked at how valuation, IP and cyber were areas of key focus for M&A insurers on most tech transactions. In this note, the attention shifts to distinct areas of focus for underwriters around three...more

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing

Contract Corner: Key Differences Between SaaS and On-Premise Software Agreements

There are two primary models by which vendors will make software available to customers (1) software as a service (SaaS); and (2) on premise. In a SaaS model, the vendor provides, maintains, and hosts (either itself or...more

Morgan Lewis

Contract Corner: Basics of Uptime Commitment in Cloud Service Level Agreements

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In cloud services, whether it is infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), or software as a service (SaaS), service availability is often a significant customer concern because the customer is relying...more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

Interact 2019: The Benefits of Modernizing Legal Ops Software

Even in the era of SaaS, there are choices to be made about updating and upgrading a Legal Ops software product, or switching to an entirely new solution, as you pursue having adequately modernized software....more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Cloud Infrastructure Provider Densify Attempts to Ward Off Partner/Competitor VMware with IP Infringement Suit

Cirba, Inc., d/b/a Densify, a quintessential start-up success story and provider of cloud services to automate virtual infrastructure optimization, recently filed a Patent Infringement and Unfair Competition Complaint against...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Steuerliche Behandlung grenzuberschreitender Software und Datenbankuberlassung

Mit Schreiben vom 27. Oktober 2017 hat sich die deutsche Bundesfinanzverwaltung zur steuerlichen Beurteilung grenzüberschreitender Software- und Datenbanküberlassung geäußert. Die Thematik war bislang von erheblicher...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Tax treatment of the cross-border provision of software and databases: Significantly improved legal certainty after new guidance...

The German Federal Ministry of Finance has issued guidance on the tax treatment of the cross-border provision of software and databases on 27 October 2017. ...more

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