Cloud Computing and Export Compliance: Managing Workloads in Compliance with Controlled Goods, ECL, ITAR, and EAR

Melanie Rosenblath
Program Manager – Security Compliance
Microsoft Canada Inc.

Orisia Gammell
Chief Legal Counsel, Export Control, Head of Export Control Innovation Team
SAP (USA)
- Comparing and contrasting the U.S. versus Canadian landscapes: Essential compliance requirements for controlled data and cloud computing
- Using cloud services and SaaS tools in compliance with Canada’s Controlled Goods Program
- Best practices and customer-side configurations
- Considerations and pending guidance around use of cloud services for export-controlled workloads managed by Canadian industry (Canada’s ECL, U.S. EAR and ITAR controls) – specifically, data processing outside of Canada
- Assessing the significance of cloud enablement to support data protection and digital transformation for government and industry
- Assessing BIS proposals that U.S. cloud service providers report to the BIS when foreign customers use their services to train large artificial intelligence (AI) models
- Using cloud services and SaaS tools in compliance with Canada’s Controlled Goods Program