Cloud Computing 2024: Data protection in cloud computing agreements, allocating risk, interplay with other terms, managing compliance

Rachel V. Rose | Rachel V. Rose – Attorney at Law, PLLC

Rachel has a unique background, having worked in many different facets of healthcare, securities, cybersecurity, as well as international law and business throughout her career. For over a decade, her practice has focused on transactional, compliance, and litigation matters related to cybersecurity, health care, securities, and Dodd-Frank/False Claims Act whistleblower claims. She has conducted HIPAA Risk Analyses for a variety of domestic and international organizations and represented persons related to government enforcement inquiries and responses on cybersecurity and healthcare related matters. Ms. Rose worked on Capitol Hill when HIPAA passed in 1996 and worked at HHS in 2009 when the HITECH Act was being implemented.

In addition to being extensively published, a sought-after presenter, and quoted expert, Ms. Rose holds an MBA with minors in healthcare and entrepreneurship from Vanderbilt University, a law degree from Stetson University College of Law, and an Executive Certification in Leadership and Negotiation from Harvard Law School. She is also the co-editor of the American Health Lawyers Association’s Enterprise Risk Management Handbook for Healthcare Entities (2nd Edition), as well as a co-author of the ABA’s books The ABCs of ACOs and What Are International HIPAA Considerations?, as well as various chapters in legal and medical books alike.

She has been named consecutively to the Texas Bar College, the National Women Trial Lawyers Association’s Top 25, Houstonia Magazine’s Top Lawyers (healthcare), the National Trial Lawyers Association’s Top 100, SuperLawyers (healthcare), as well as 1st Healthcare Compliance’s 2019 and 2022 Top Presenter. Ms. Rose is also an Affiliated Member with the Baylor College of Medicine’s Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, where she teaches bioethics.

Peter S. Vogel | VOGEL IT LAW

Peter S. Vogel is a lawyer at VOGEL IT LAW aka Peter S. Vogel, PC. Before practicing law he worked as a computer programmer, received a Master’s in Computer Science, and taught graduate courses in information systems. Peter has negotiated hundreds of IT, eCommerce, and Cybersecurity contracts and had trials around the US on failed, software implementations, misappropriation of trade secrets, copyright infringement, software patent infringement, and eCommerce Internet disputes.

For more than 30 years Peter has been an Arbitrator and Mediator with the American Arbitration Association, and a Tech List Member of the Silicon Valley Arbitration & Mediation Center. Currently Peter serves on the State Bar of Texas AI Work Group, and is the General Counsel of the North Texas Information Systems & Security Association. For 12 years Peter served as the Founding Chair of the Texas Supreme Court Judicial Committee on Information Technology which is responsible for helping automate the Texas court system and creating the Texas eFiling System. Peter has taught courses at the SMU Dedman School of Law for more than 25 years including courses on eDiscovery and the Law of eCommerce.

Many of Peter’s topics are discussed on his Internet, IT & E-Discovery blog www.vogelitlaw.com/blog.

I. Noteworthy news | 1:00pm – 1:15pm

II. What is cloud computing? | 1:15pm – 1:35pm

III. Breaking down a cloud computing contract | 1:35pm – 1:50pm

IV. Contracts that are often utilized in conjunction with Cloud Computing Agreements (part I) | 1:50pm – 2:00pm

Break | 2:00pm – 2:10pm

V. Contracts that are often utilized in conjunction with Cloud Computing Agreements (part II) | 2:10pm – 2:25pm

VI. The interplay between generative AI and the cloud | 2:25pm – 2:40pm

VII. Laws to consider in different scenarios | 2:40pm – 3:00pm

VIII. Risk mitigation | 3:00pm – 3:10pm