From the course: A Day In The Life of a Data Scientist

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Highly regulated clients

Highly regulated clients

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Highly regulated clients

- As a cybersecurity consulting firm, a lot of our clients come from highly regulated industries. So that would be like finance, healthcare, any industry where there's really strict government protocols for what their data is and how it needs to be protected. So if you think about the healthcare industry, the data that they're storing is personally identifiable information. It's highly regulated because it's about diseases, about people. It's important data. You can't be exposing people's health records to the public. So that's what we call highly regulated, because the government actually has placed laws that certain healthcare industries have to maintain in terms of their cybersecurity posture. That way their data is protected to a certain level. And if you think about the finance industry, it's the same thing, okay? People's credit card information, their social security number, you know, this, that, there are…

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