$1.$ You are the security manager for a retail sales company that uses a software as a service $($SaaS$)$ public cloud service. One of your employees uploads sensitive information they were not author$-$ized to put in the cloud. An administrator working for the cloud provider accesses that information and uses it for an illegal purpose, benefiting the administrator and causing harm to your organiza$-$tion.

After you perform all the incident$-$response activity related to the situation, your organization de$-$termines that the price of the damage was US$$125,000.$ Your organization sues the cloud provider, and the jury determines that your organization shares in the blame $($liability$)$ for the loss because it was your employee performing an unauthorized action that created the situation.

If the jury determines that $25$ percent of the evidence shows that the situation was your organi$-$zation$$s fault and $75$ percent of the evidence shows that the situation was the cloud provider$$s fault, what is the likely outcome from following options? Justify your answer.

a$.$ Your organization owes the cloud provider $$31,250.$

b$.$ The cloud provider owes your organization $$93,750.$

c$.$ Neither side owes the other party anything.

d$.$ The cloud provider owes your organization $$125,000\mathrm{.}1.$ You are the security manager for a retail sales company that uses a software as a service $($SaaS$)$ public cloud service. One of your employees uploads sensitive information they were not author$-$ized to put in the cloud. An administrator working for the cloud provider accesses that information and uses it for an illegal purpose, benefiting the administrator and causing harm to your organiza$-$tion.

After you perform all the incident$-$response activity related to the situation, your organization de$-$termines that the price of the damage was US$$125,000.$ Your organization sues the cloud provider, and the jury determines that your organization shares in the blame $($liability$)$ for the loss because it was your employee performing an unauthorized action that created the situation.

If the jury determines that $25$ percent of the evidence shows that the situation was your organi$-$zation$$s fault and $75$ percent of the evidence shows that the situation was the cloud provider$$s fault, what is the likely outcome from following options? Justify your answer.

a$.$ Your organization owes the cloud provider $$31,250.$

b$.$ The cloud provider owes your organization $$93,750.$

c$.$ Neither side owes the other party anything.

d$.$ The cloud provider owes your organization $$125,000.$