Data compliance management associated with cloud migration events

摘要

A compliance tool can verify compliance with jurisdictional transfer and storage requirements for data migration into or within a cloud. The compliance tool can monitor and check data transfers and storage to determine if the data transfer and/or storage will cross jurisdictional boundaries. If the transfers or storage crosses jurisdictional boundaries, the compliance tool can identify the transfer and storage requirements of any jurisdictions involved with the transfer and/or storage. The compliance tool can verify that the data transfers complies with the identified transfer and storage requirements. If the data transfer and/or storage does not comply with the identified transfer and storage requirements, the compliance tool can terminate the data transfer and/or storage, modify the data transfer and/or storage, and/or modify the data, itself, to comply with the identified transfer and storage requirements.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
identifying a transfer of data from a first location in a first jurisdiction to a storage resource located in a second jurisdiction in a cloud network, wherein a jurisdiction is a geographical area to which certain legal authority applies, and wherein the second jurisdiction is different than the first jurisdiction; identifying a requirement, specified by the first jurisdiction, to store the data in view of an attribute of the data; determining, by a processor, whether storing the data in the storage resource in the second jurisdiction in the cloud network complies with the requirement; identifying a second requirement, specified by the second jurisdiction, to store the data in view of the attribute of the data; determining whether storing the data in the storage resource in the second jurisdiction in the cloud network complies with the second requirement; and preventing transfer of the data if storing the data in the second jurisdiction does not comply with the second requirement of the second jurisdiction.