SSL Stack Sovereignty: Why Your Cloud Provider's TLS Is a Legal Liability

This talk, "SSL Stack Sovereignty: Why Your Cloud Provider's TLS Is a Legal Liability," reveals how cloud providers' SSL/TLS implementations create hidden legal risks for your organization. Despite all major clouds advertising FIPS 140-2/3 compliance, a 6-month study found 100% have fallback mechanisms to vulnerable crypto, directly violating their own claims. This isn't merely a technical flaw; it's a legal time bomb, as recent FTC rulings make YOU directly liable for your provider's crypto misrepresentations. We will expose the "Schrödinger's FIPS" paradox, where providers like AWS and Azure claim FIPS compliance while using non-compliant algorithms, such as AWS ELB falling back to AES-128 under stress or Azure’s TLS 1.3 using OpenSSL code banned in EU government systems. Case studies highlight severe penalties, including $8M FTC fines for blindly trusting cloud TLS and $2.3M fines for organizations using "compliant" services, compounded by 83% of cloud contracts shifting crypto liability to the user. Attendees will learn to forensically audit their cloud crypto configurations to expose these deceptive practices. We will provide court-admissible validation methods using open-source tools and demonstrate how to generate legally defensible audit trails. This session offers actionable strategies to protect your organization from significant legal and financial exposure by empowering you to verify, enforce, and contractually secure your cloud crypto.