Cybersecurity within organizations is largely determined by contracts with technology providers: cloud services, SaaS, managed services, integrators, and subcontractors in the supply chain. These contracts set the standards for security, liability for incidents, audit procedures, reporting, business continuity, and exit scenarios. We support organizations in building and negotiating contracts that are not merely declarations of compliance but work in real operational and crisis situations.
Cybersecurity regulations increasingly influence the content of contracts. DORA, NIS2, and national regulations require ICT risk control, oversight of providers, documented processes, and clear obligations in the event of incidents. At the same time, organizations must maintain the pace of deployments and scaling services. We design contractual models and clauses that integrate regulatory requirements, security, and operational feasibility — from the RFP stage and negotiations to contract management during collaboration.
What We Help With in Cybersecurity Contracting?
Contracts with ICT, Cloud, and SaaS Providers
We design and negotiate provisions on information security, liability, service availability, vulnerabilities, maintenance, and SLAs.
IT Outsourcing and Managed Services (MSP/MSSP)
We establish operational terms: monitoring, incident response, role division, response times, reporting, testing, and security maintenance.
Incident Response Clauses and Notification Obligations
We build enforceable incident response mechanisms: event qualification, notifications, cooperation between parties, crisis communication, logs, and securing evidence.
Audit Rights and Security Controls
We introduce real audit rights: scope, procedures, frequency, report standards, tests, certifications, and collaboration terms with regulators and clients during inspections.
Subcontractors and Supply Chain Security
We structure the rules for subcontracting services, data locations, the flow of security obligations, and responsibility for subcontractor actions.
Business Continuity and Exit Strategies (BCP/DR, Exit Plan)
We secure operational continuity: backups, service restoration, migrations, support at the end of cooperation, data return and retention, and limiting vendor lock-in.
GDPR and Data Security in Contracts
We integrate data protection requirements with information security: roles of the parties, technical and organizational measures, subprocessors, breaches, audits, and data transfers.
Negotiations Post-Incident and Contractual Disputes
We represent clients in negotiations and disputes concerning outages, breaches, liquidated damages, contractual liability, confidentiality, and data loss.
Scope of Support
- Designing and negotiating cybersecurity contracts
- ICT, cloud, SaaS, integrations, and API contracts
- MSP/MSSP service terms
- IR clauses and notifications
- Audits, tests, and certifications
- Subcontractor clauses
- BCP/DR, service availability, and system recovery
- Exit plan, migrations, data return, and limiting vendor lock-in
- GDPR and security clauses
- Contract verification under DORA, NIS2, and UKSC
- Representation in court disputes
- Mediation and arbitration
Do you have a project requiring cybersecurity contract structuring?
Let’s discuss the best solution.
Managing partner, attorney at law
+48 531 871 707
Counsel, attorney at law
+48 537 718 362