Legal Perspective from Blake Turley, Esq.
SaaS escrow requires a different approach than traditional source code escrow. Because a SaaS application may depend on cloud infrastructure, databases, third-party services, configuration information, credentials, and other components, access to source code alone may not provide an organization with the ability to recover or operate a critical application.
Technology attorney Blake Turley of Turley Law provides a useful legal perspective on these issues in his article, “SaaS Escrow Agreement Explained: Recovery Services for When Your Vendor Disappears.”
The article discusses SaaS escrow agreements, recovery services, release conditions, data portability, and other considerations organizations should evaluate when relying on a critical SaaS provider.
InnovaSafe provides this link as an educational resource for organizations evaluating SaaS escrow and business continuity strategies. The linked article is authored and published by Turley Law and does not constitute legal advice from InnovaSafe.