I had the privilege to join Sun’s Chief Privacy Officer, who is also our Chief Governance Officer for Cloud Computing, in meetings with some government InfoComm authority folks. The subject of the meetings were Governance for Cloud Computing.
Overall, I thought she did well in covering the key and important points across areas such as legislation / laws and the jurisdictional territories, Standards, data classifications / categories, how to maintain data privacy and security across its lifecycle, IP (Intellectual Property) of third party contents, license rights, policing rights, etc. The message she brought to the table is that at the end of the day, businesses needs to manage an acceptable equilibrium between gaining the business agility, cost advantages and empowering their business to leverage on available Cloud services, and the acceptable or tolerated level of risks by the business. It was not an easy subject to talk about (especially in an hour duration).
