SaaS, PaaS and IaaS: Evaluating Cloud Service Agreement...

SaaS, PaaS and IaaS: Evaluating Cloud Service

Agreement Models, Negotiating Key Terms,

Minimizing Contract Disputes

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Michael R. Overly, Partner, Foley & Lardner, Los Angeles

David W. Tollen, Founder, Tech Contracts Academy, San Francisco

Nathan Leong, Lead Counsel, U.S. Health & Life Sciences Legal, Microsoft, Chicago

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“a fancy way of saying stuff’s not on your computer.” *

*Quinn Norton, “Byte Rights,” Maximum PC, September 2010, at 12.

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• Software as a Service (“SaaS”)

• Platform as a Service (“PaaS”)

• Infrastructure as a Service (“IaaS”)

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Single Family Residence Condo Shared Patio Outdoor

Kitchen

Restaurant – self-cook raw

meat buffet

Restaurant – kitchen menu

Chef Chef Chef Chef

Meat, Veggies, Cookware Meat, Veggies, Cookware Meat, Veggies, Cookware Meat, Veggies, Cookware

Grill, Gas, Hood Grill, Gas, Hood Grill, Gas, Hood Grill, Gas, Hood

Traditional Software IaaS PaaS SaaS

Facility responsibility

Customer responsibility

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Mitigating Risk in

Cloud Computing:

Warranties and SLAs

Michael Overly, Esq., CISA, CISSP, COP, CIPP, ISSMP, CRISC

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Most Important Preliminary Steps

▪ Set expectations on both sides

▪ Conduct a risk assessment

▪ Determine your requirements


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Setting and Managing Service Levels


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Service Level Overview

▪ Identify what is important

▪ Understand the vendor limitations

▪ How will performance be measured and reported?

▪ What are your remedies (what is the vendor’s incentive to perform)?

– SLAs as a sword or shield?


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Service Availability

▪ The most important metric

▪ How is it measured?

▪ Ping v. actual functionality

▪ Over what period of time?

▪ Beware extensive exceptions


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Service Availability

▪ Goals v. requirements?

▪ What about force majeure?

▪ “Routine Maintenance”

▪ Service Level Credits

▪ Exclusive remedies


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Other SLAs▪ Response time

– Absolutely key to user experience

– How many simultaneous users?

– Link to known indexes (Keynote and Google PageSpeed)

– Measurement time is key


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Other SLAs

▪ Other services levels?

– RTO

– RPO

– Support


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Have Appropriate Warranties


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Warranties▪ Warranty duration

▪ What is warranted?

– Cloud service, itself

– Professional services

– Support services


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Warranties▪ The services will perform in

accordance with the specifications and, to the extent not inconsistent, provider’s documentation

▪ All services will be provided in a timely, workmanlike manner, in compliance with industry best practices


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Warranties

▪ The provider will provide adequate training, as needed, to client on the use of the services

▪ The services will comply with all federal, state, and local laws, rules, and regulations


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Warranties▪ The services will not infringe the

intellectual property rights of any third person

▪ The services will be free from viruses and other destructive programs

▪ There is no pending or threatened litigation involving provider that may impair or interfere with the client’s right to use the services


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Warranties

▪ The provider has sufficient authority to enter into the agreement and grant the rights provided in the agreement to the client.

▪ Provider will not permit possession or access to Customer data outside the United States.


Questions?

Michael R. Overly, Esq., CISA, CISSP, COP, CIPP, ISSMP, CRISC

Partner

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(213) 972-4533

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Data Management & Security

The GDPR and the Rest

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A. The GDPR

• Broad non-EU application:

A. Data processing in the EU

B. Processing anywhere re (i) offering goods/services in EU or (ii) monitoring behavior in EU, including selling in, through EU currency, etc.

• Broad personal data definition: just about anything that can identify an individual

• Controller: decides what to do with data; Processor: does it.

• Two set of obligations:

1. Physical compliance

2. Contracts between controller and processor

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subject matter and duration of processing

nature and purpose of processing

type of personal data and categories of data subject

obligations and rights of the controller

B. GDPR-Required Contract Terms:Disclosures

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GDPR-Required Terms (cont’d):Restrictions on Processor

• only act on written instructions of controller

• ensure people processing data are subject to duty of confidence

• take appropriate measures to ensure security

• only engage sub-processors with controller’s consent and written contract

• assist controller in allowing data subjects to exercise their access and other rights

• assist controller in meeting GDPR obligations re security, notification of breaches, and data protection impact assessments

• delete or return all personal data at the end of the contract

• submit to audits/inspections, provide information controller needs per Article 28 obligations, and tell the controller immediately if asked to do infringe GDPR or other data law

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C. Data Security Clauses

• Data Management & E-Discovery Terms

Access, use, & legal restrictions

Customer’s ownership

E-discovery

Injunction

• Data Security Terms

Data security program

Audits & testing

Data breach response

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Indemnities

A. Indemnity Basics

• Obligation: hire lawyers, pay judgments, pay settlements

• Why?: allocation of risk, not punishment

• Types: IP, personal injury, data security, etc.

• Who?: usually the vendor, but not necessarily

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B. IP Indemnity

• IP risk management: tech indemnity vs. content indemnity

• Exceptions:

1. Customer breach

2. Software revisions w/o vendor consent

3. Failure to incorporate updates: yellow flag issue for customer

4. Vendor’s development based on customer specs: orange flag issue for customer

5. Interface w/ Third Party Technology: red flag issue for customer

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C. Data Breach Indemnity

The big problem:

When the breach happens, and possibly through much of the litigation, no one knows who’s at fault. Who’s the

indemnitor?

• Customer as indemnitor?

• Vendor as indemnitor?

• No indemnity?

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D. Other Indemnities

• Personal Injury

• Harassment and Defamation

• Spam

• Be creative …

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Limits of Liability

Details of the Limit

• Dollar Cap: 1x the contract? 1x the SoW? 3x the contract? …

• No Consequential Damages

• Exclusions:

Indemnity

NDA breach

Gross negligence?

Customer obligations: payment, IP infringement

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