Enterprise data centres are becoming increasingly regulated by governments due to the growing focus on digital ethics , privacy and risk . Several regulatory controls have direct implications for data centre infrastructures . These include : SEC Rule 17a-4 which outlines requirements for data retention , indexing and accessibility for companies that deal in the trade or brokering of financial securities ; The US Department of Defense ( DoD ) which requires all of its contractors to adhere to the NIST Special Publication ( SP ) 800-171 standard to “ protect controlled unclassified information in non-federal information systems and organisations ”; NIST Special Publication 800-53 , a catalogue of security controls spanning U . S . federal information systems and the European Union ( EU ) General Data Protection Regulation ( GDPR ).

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