Click on your country or location of interest. Use this interactive map to find out more about the regulatory landscape relevant to cloud adoption across 16 markets in Asia-Pacific.
Asia-Pacific is in the midst of a transformation powered by cloud technologies. Organizations across all industries, from financial services and healthcare to education and the public sector, are reaping the benefits of the cloud to improve their operations and enhance their services.
With companies rapidly shifting from on-premises technology infrastructure to cloud computing, legal and compliance professionals find themselves facing new questions from their organizations:
A. Can we move to the cloud in our industry?
B. What are the compliance requirements?
C. What industry security standards do we need to think about?
D. What should we look out for in our cloud services contract?
These are just some of the questions that today's legal and compliance professionals are expected to master and explain to their boards.
This guide has been specially designed by Microsoft to help answer the questions your organization may have about adopting the cloud. Through its work with customers across the region and around the world, Microsoft understands the complex challenges that you face. We also understand that it is your responsibility as a legal and compliance professional to verify that technologies meet the regulatory requirements that apply to your organization. It is for this reason that Microsoft employs and partners with thousands of legal and policy experts, auditors, and privacy specialists, and it has thousands of engineers building advanced legal compliance, privacy protection and data security features into its services and infrastructure.
Through its long-standing relationship with the legal and compliance community, Microsoft has developed a wealth of resources for professionals who need relevant information on the key regulatory and compliance considerations associated with cloud computing. Whether it is privacy law requirements that apply across all industries, or sector-specific outsourcing guidelines in financial services, this guide captures the key requirements that organizations need to be aware of when moving to the cloud in Asia-Pacific.
We are delighted to share these resources with you via this guide as part of our commitment to supporting the legal and compliance community and ensuring trust and compliance in the cloud.
To ensure we deliver technology that our customers can trust, we established the four foundational principles of the Trusted Cloud — security, privacy and control, compliance and transparency – along with a set of complementary guidelines and processes for delivering rigorous levels of engineering, legal, and compliance support for our cloud services.
The four foundational principles of the Trusted Cloud are:
An introduction to cloud computing for legal and compliance professionals
We introduce some basic concepts, definitions and examples related to cloud computing for non-technical audiences and address the questions that are raised by the shift to cloud computing for the legal and compliance community.
Achieving trust and compliance in the cloud
Today’s in-house counsel must overcome a veritable obstacle course of compliance challenges and an expanding set of unique data security demands, privacy and data protection requirements. This article discusses Microsoft’s experience working to meet the exacting legal and compliance requirements of our customers around the world.
New international standards will help cloud customers
Vendor-neutral regulations that set minimum standards for the security and privacy of data transfers between cloud providers and cloud customers allow the cloud ecosystem to flourish. This article discusses a new international standard that makes it easier for organizations to systematically compare what different cloud providers are offering.
Brad Smith: Keeping trust at the heart of technology
Brad Smith, Microsoft President and Chief Legal Officer, talks about trust in his open letter to the legal and compliance community.
Access the Microsoft Asia News Center for selected articles relating to security, privacy and compliance for cloud computing.
Watch the videos below for a walkthrough explanation of the core design philosophies and the four foundational principles of Security, Privacy, Compliance and Transparency behind Microsoft's Trusted Cloud.
Learn how the four foundational principles of Security, Privacy, Compliance and Transparency feature in the Trusted Cloud and are designed to meet your business needs and ensure the integrity of your data.
How does Microsoft keep your data secure? Watch this video to find out in detail.
Microsoft understands the importance of privacy and has built it into the DNA of our Trusted Cloud. Learn how Microsoft ensures the data privacy of your organization in this video.
Microsoft not only advances and complies with international compliance standards, we can also help our clients with meeting regulatory compliance requirements with the wealth of experience we have developed. Watch this video to find out how Microsoft can help with your organization’s requirements.
Below are some success stories from satisfied customers who decided to switch to Microsoft's Trusted Cloud. Read on to find out more about how your organization may benefit from Microsoft's Trusted Cloud as well.
