In the film classic, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, our hero Indy tries to beat the booby trap security in a cave to steal a golden idol. He thinks he’s won when he switches the idol for a similarly sized bag of sand, but then finds he has to navigate flying darts, a dropping wall, and a chasm before he’s through.

If you’re a business that handles credit cards and other data related to digital payments, you’ve likely heard of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), or the set of interrelated controls designed to enable those handling credit cards and related data to protect the information entrusted to them.

It seems like Apple releases a new version of the iPhone every year these days, and despite all the new iterations featuring similar looks, builds, and functions, there’s always that period where everyone has to get used to the new thing.

Banking regulation has always been a bit of a tennis match—a back-and-forth between more regulation, and then less. Before the shift to deregulation starting in the 1980s, banks adhered to state and federal banking laws, as well as narrow lines of business. After years of phased-in deregulation, the pendulum swung back. Now regulatory and industry compliance for banks includes more rules than ever before: privacy laws, federal trade regulations, non-bank industry regulations, and community impact reporting.

When it comes to payment card security, the secure exchange of data is a well-known security requirement. It should come as no surprise that, for compliance with the PCI DSS standard, you must define how you do that.

When developing software securely, many organizations have traditionally relied primarily on administrative security controls—i.e., policy and procedure documents that dictate change control processes and the different steps that need to be completed to remain compliant.

In the classic film Twister, Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt are faced with life or death at the very end. As an F5 tornado bears down on them, they use leather belts to anchor themselves to the ground, keeping themselves from getting swallowed up in the maelstrom.

If you hadn’t heard, NASA’s Artemis Program—the first endeavor to go back to the moon in 50 years—has stalled a bit. Though the new rocket—known as the Space Launch System—has been in the works for years, even now that it’s out on the pad and seemingly ready, the agency is taking its time to launch. That’s because NASA knows how high the stakes are—there are billions of dollars invested and their reputation as space explorers of the future is on the line.