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Name: Paolo
Family Name: BALBONI
Affiliation: European Privacy Association – Baker & McKenzie
Personal web-site: www.paolobalboni.eu
Short BIO
Paolo Balboni is an Associate Lawyer of the ICT/IP Department at Baker & McKenzie (Milan) and Fellow of the European Privacy Association. In 2009 he was selected as legal expert for the working group on Cloud Computing Risk Assessment formed by ENISA (the European Network and Information Security Agency) and he co-authored the related report: Cloud Computing: Benefits, Risks and Recommendations for Information Security. Author of the book “Trustmarks in E-commerce”, he is Research Associate at Tilburg University where he teaches the Master’s course “Liability of Web 2.0 Service Providers”. Paolo Balboni is regularly involved in European Commission Projects related to ICT. He obtained his Law Degree from the University of Bologna and earned a Ph.D. in ICT Comparative Law from Tilburg University. Paolo Balboni is fluent in Italian, English, and Dutch and speaks also German, French and Spanish.
Title of the presentation
Legal Risks and Liabilities Related to Cloud Computing
Abstract
We are in the midst of a significant shift in our computing platform. Such shift goes under the name of Cloud Computing. Cloud computing is an on-demand service model for IT provision, often based on virtualization and distributed computing technologies. The main features of cloud computing architectures consist of: a) highly abstracted resources; b) near instant scalability and flexibility; c) near instantaneous provisioning; d) shared resources (hardware, database, memory, etc); e) ‘service on demand’, usually with a ‘pay as you go’ billing system; and f) programmatic management (e.g., through WS API). Moreover, the cloud-computing model offers four general types of services: (i) Software as a service - SaaS; (ii) Infrastructure as a service - IaaS; (iii) Platform as a service - PaaS; and (iv) Process as a service - PraaS. Analysts estimate that in 2012, the size of the enterprise cloud-computing business may reach $60 billion to $80 billion – or about 10% of the global IT-service and enterprise-software market. Such revolution brings about several legal liability issues that will be pointed out in the presentation and practical solutions will be offered to manage the relevant legal risk.
On-line publications
1. Balboni, P. et al. (2009) Cloud Computing: Key Legal Issues. In European Network and Information Security Association (ed.), Cloud Computing: Benefits, Risks and Recommendations for Information Security, 95 – 109.
2. Trustmarks in E-Commerce. The Value of Web Seals and the Liability of their Providers, T.M.C. Asser Press, The Hague, 240 pages.
3. Balboni, P. et al (2008) Liability of Web 2.0 Service Providers – A Comparative Look, Computer Law Review International Issue 3 pp. 65-71
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