38 Words That Give MSPs A Boost In Data Breach Cases

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Wade Tyler Millward, CRN After an MSP lists all vendors, vendor services agreements and privacy policies, attorney Rob Scott tells MSPs to add these 38 words: ‘Under no circumstances will the customer attempt to hold the MSP responsible for the acts or omissions of thir......

Mastering MSAs and SLAs

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James Gaskin, Channel Pro Network A comprehensive MSA will protect your MSP business by laying out the ground rules for a customer partnership, while an SLA establishes the operational and transactional details. Request A Consultation...

Products Liability and Kaseya’s Ransomware Attack

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The recent ransomware attack involving Kaseya’s VSA product has left managed service providers (“MSPs”) and end users evaluating what, if any, legal recourse they may have against Kaseya. The onerous limitations of liability provisions and indemnification clause in......

MSP Registration – A new Era for Managed Service Providers

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Written by Charles Weaver, co-founder of MSPAlliance MSP registration is finally here. We’ve been talking about this for a long time, and it’s finally here. MSPAlliance has encouraged discussion within our professional community for many years on the role of gover......

The Technology Assurance Group’s MTSP Meeting Is a Win-Win

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On the Verge of 2020, TAG Helps Members Prepare for Further Growth Carl Schell, 11/19/2019, KeyPoint Intelligence “Hindsight is 2020” and “2020 vision” are the most oft-used puns about next year. Fortunately, at the Technology Assurance Group’s two-day MTSP me......

MSPAlliance Launches GDPR Program for Service Providers

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C., June 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The International Association of Cloud & Managed Service Providers (MSPAlliance®) today launched a comprehensive program for its service providers members related to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The pr......

How to Survive a Nasty Software Vendor Audit

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Kristin Burnham, CIO.com, 04/30/2018 When software vendor auditors push too far, enterprise technology leaders must be prepared to push back. In an extreme case, the food company Mars (best known for Snickers and M&M’s candies) filed a lawsuit petitioning the court......

Scott & Scott, LLP Voted Technology Law Firm of the Year USA

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SOUTHLAKE, TEXAS (PRWEB) JUNE 06, 2017 Scott & Scott, LLP, a boutique technology law-firm in Southlake, Texas has been named Technology Law Firm of the Year by Finance Monthly two years in a row. The Finance Monthly Law Awards 2017 recognizes law firms and legal profess......

Scott & Scott, LLP Named Technology Law Firm of the Year 2017

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SOUTHLAKE, TEXAS (PRWEB) APRIL 26, 2017 Boutique law firm,Scott & Scott, LLP, was honored by Lawyers Worldwide Magazine as Technology Law Firm of the Year – USA in the April 17th edition of Super Lawyers 2017. The recently released edition features in-depth informat......

Perpetual Licenses and Other Alternative Facts

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Steve Russman, IBSMA, 2/1/2017 Julie Machal-Fulks, a technology attorney with Texas firm Scott & Scott, has handled hundreds of software audits and manages the firm’s Oracle practice. She helps her clients with everything from negotiating new license agreements, under......

Robert Scott named Technology Lawyer of the Year

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Chandra Lye, SE TexasRecord, 1/2/2017 SOUTHLAKE – Lawyer Monthly has named the managing partner of law firm Scott & Scott LLP the Technology Lawyer of the Year. Robert Scott said he was honored and surprised at the recognition. “When I started practicing in this ......

Spotlight on ITAM Review Conference 2016 Speakers

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The ITAM Review, May 17, 2016 We’re pleased to announce the details of some of our confirmed conference speakers at our upcoming US conference in Florida on 19th & 20th September and UK conference in London on 4th & 5th October. Here we put 3 of our confirmed s......

BSA PAYS DISGRUNTLED EMPLOYEES TO RAT ON ‘PIRATING’ BOSSES

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Ernesto, Torrent Freak, 5/28/16 The Business Software Alliance, a trade group representing Adobe, Apple and Microsoft, is known to offer cash payments to people who help them find companies that run unlicensed software. Today we speak with an attorney who has represented ......

Shadow IT: When Employees Become Bounty Hunters

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Michael O'Dwyer, ipswitch, 4/11/16 Human error is responsible for more than half of all security breaches as of last year, making employees the biggest cyber threat of all. Shadow IT, on the other hand, is the deliberate installation of software that is not authorized by IT....

Law firm warns of Oracle’s licensing ‘traps’

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Katherine Noyes, ComputerWorld, 10/13/15 Oracle's aggressive licensing practices have gained it considerable notoriety over the years, and on Tuesday, a Texas law firm specializing in technology issued a warning urging enterprises to beware....

How To Survive A Software Licensing Audit

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Lisa Morgan, InformationWeek, 1/1/16 Enterprise IT organizations face software audits as a matter of doing business with large technology vendors. What's the best approach to dealing with them? Here's a look at what you should and shouldn't do when you get that software lic......

Software Licensing Audits: Is Your Company Prepared?

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Lisa Morgan, InformationWeek, 12/31/15 Software licensing audits can cause minor annoyance or excruciating pain, depending on their scope and how ready your enterprise is for the disruption and expense. We take a look at trends in software licensing audits and the ways they......

Stephen Pinson Joins Scott & Scott, LLP

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Scott & Scott, LLP announces the addition of Stephen Pinson as Associate Attorney. Stephen Pinson is a graduate of Hofstra Law School and a member of the New York and Texas Bar. Prior to joining the firm, Stephen practiced in high-stakes securities litigation, regulatio......