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compliance
- meaning:
- following rules, laws, standards, or polices
- the action or fact of complying with a wish or command
- excessive acquiesecne
- the state of fact of according with or meeting rules or standards
- nuance:
- very common in security, cloud, interface, and enterprise environments.
- example:
- Logging and access control are important for security complicance.
regulatory
- meaning:
- serving or intended to regulate something
- nuance:
- often used with governments rules, finance, healthcare, privacy and security.
- example:
- Finalncial companies must follow regulatory requirements when string customer data.
crucial
- meaning:
- decisive or critical, especially in the success or failure of something.
- a greate importance
- nuance:
- similar to “very important”, but stronger. Less formal than “pivotal”.
- example:
- Backups are crucial for disaster recovery
irrespective
- meaning:
- not taking into account, regardless of
- regardless of; without being affected by
- nuance:
- formal, Usually used as “irrespective of…”
- example:
- Users should receive a consistent experience irrespective of their device.
integral
- meaning:
- necessary to make a whole complete, essential or fundamental
- included as part of a whole rather than supplied separately
- nuance:
- usually used as “an integral part of…”
- example:
- CI/CD is an integral part of modern software development
disrupt
- meaning:
- to strongly change an existing market, industry, or system
- interrupt by causing a disturbance or problem
- drastically alter or destroy the structure of
- nuance:
- can be negative or positive. In business/tech, it often means innovation changes the old way.
- example:
- Cloud computing disrupted the traditional data center business