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The baby bull elephant in the room

The baby bull elephant in the room

"Compliance is like a baby bull elephant: it's big today, it's only going to get bigger and if you upset it, it's going to rampage." That's how one CIO describes compliance, a topic that should be a concern of every information security professional working today.

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Nevertheless, some compliance is still hard to deal with, he says. "I still struggle to understand where the scope and requirements of the PCI piece is. You can find conflicting information when you read about it yourself. As a company, I know exactly where we are for PCI and put in a lot of effort to being fully compliant with our scope as we define it. But as cloud service provider, that's where we have interesting conversations."

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