Navigating your way to the cloud
A Guide for the Legal & Compliance Professional
Supporting the Legal and Compliance Community
Supporting the Legal and Compliance Community
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: Can we move to the cloud in our industry? What are the compliance requirements? What industry security standards do we need to think about? 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.
Through its long-standing relationship with the legal and compliance community, Microsoft has developed a wealth of resources on the key regulatory and compliance considerations associated with cloud computing. 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.
About Microsoft's Trusted 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:
Security
Protecting you from external cyberthreats
Our comprehensive approach to security helps protect your data wherever it may be-in a data center, on a phone, on a desktop, or in transit through the internet.
Privacy and control
Giving you control over access to your data
At Microsoft, we invest heavily in technology development and practices to ensure we actively protect your privacy and provide the necessary tools to control both the privacy and administrative aspects of the data you put in the Microsoft cloud.
Compliance
Unparalleled investment in meeting global standards
We are proactively adopting new certifications and partnering with regulators and standards bodies to develop new regulation and standards.
Transparency
Clear insight into our policies and procedures
We work tirelessly to ensure we are transparent with our operations. We publish reports detailing government requests for customer data and notify individual customers when a government requests data when legally allowed to do so.
About Microsoft's Trusted Cloud
Security
Protecting you from external cyberthreats
Our comprehensive approach to security helps protect your data wherever it may be - in a data center, on a phone, on a desktop, or in transit through the internet.
Privacy and control
Giving you control over access to your data
At Microsoft, we invest heavily in technology development and practices to ensure we actively protect your privacy and provide the necessary tools to control both the privacy and administrative aspects of the data you put in the Microsoft cloud.
Compliance
Unparalleled investment in meeting global standards
We are proactively adopting new certifications and partnering with regulators and standards bodies to develop new regulation and standards when we identify opportunities to increase digital privacy and safety.
Transparency
Clear insight into our policies and procedures
We work tirelessly to increase not only our own transparency, but the transparency of the industry and its regulators. We submit to third-party audits and publish reports detailing government requests for customer data and notify individual customers where possible.
Video Interviews and Screencasts
Microsoft Trust and the 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.
Microsoft Security Module
How does Microsoft keep your data secure? Watch this video to find out in detail.
Microsoft Privacy
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 Compliance and Transparency
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.
Customer Stories
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.
Recommended Resources
This guide is not intended to be a comprehensive analysis of all regulations and their requirements, nor is it legal advice; rather it is intended to be a summary and to provide guidance to organizations on the types of issues they should consider. You should take advice on your cloud project from a qualified professional.