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A multinational financial institution walks into its annual PCI DSS review confident it has “checked the boxes.” Firewalls are segmented, logs are retained, access controls are documented, and the audit report is clean. Months later, the same organization is reprimanded by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The controls were properly implemented.

Big changes to HIPAA are coming in February 2026 including new rules on how sensitive health data is handled, and updates to the required patient privacy notices. IT teams will play a key role in making sure those protections are actually enforced.