Compliance and secure safe network frameworks
"One customer had a requirement that all data traffic within the firewall was to be unencrypted to allow for inspection by network monitoring tools"
Modern switches can decrypt data on the fly, they do this by forging certificates, thus rendering encryption moot in the first place.
"Head of security and compliance teams at healthcare IT firm Nuna .. The sheer amount of reporting and paperwork involved can be crushing"
'compliance' .. no amount of form filling is going to secure your network.
"Sun Tzu’s guide to IT management"
For f**k sake, just hire the one man to run penetration tests on your network and close-up the holes demonstrated there-in.