Security & Compliance Topics
Governance, compliance frameworks, regulatory requirements, compliance implementation, and compliance-driven risk management. Covers compliance frameworks (SOX, GDPR, HIPAA, FCPA, etc.), regulatory interpretation, compliance control design, audit and control effectiveness evaluation, and compliance process management. For operational security implementation and technical threat mitigation, see Security Engineering & Operations.
Audit Logging and Compliance
Covers design and operational practices for audit logging and regulatory compliance for database systems. Topics include deciding which access and change events to record, log schema and formats, secure collection and transmission, immutable storage and integrity controls, retention and rotation policies aligned to legal requirements, redaction and privacy controls for personally identifiable information, integration with aggregation and indexing pipelines, tooling for investigation and forensic analysis, generation of compliance reports and audit evidence, alerting on suspicious or out of policy activity, performance and storage trade offs, and testing and validation of the full logging pipeline.
Compliance and Data Protection Regulations
Understanding of regulatory requirements (GDPR, HIPAA, SOX, CCPA, PCI-DSS), implementing controls to meet compliance obligations, data retention policies, audit requirements, and working with compliance and legal teams.