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I’m John Elliott, a data protection specialist and Pluralsight author. I help organisations balance regulatory requirements like GDPR, NISD, PSD2 and the PCI standards with IT, information security and business objectives. More …

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WithoutFire …

… it’s a metaphor for our industry. The saying goes that there’s no smoke without fire. In information security and data protection we can often smell the smoke but we choose to optimistically believe that there’s isn’t a fire, or perhaps we’ll be lucky and not get burnt. This generally isn’t a great idea.