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• Financial Services - Systems that contain PCI / PII such as addresses, credit cards numbers etc
• Healthcare - Patient information, HIPAA
• Any other sensitive information
• Protection against logical data corruption (eg. Dev writing to Prod or vice versa)

This type of functionality could also be enforced via network administration, (Network firewalls, IPTables etc) but often times there is a disconnect between the operators of the system and those network teams in large organizations. Giving (software/systems) administrators the ability to control their own environment independent of external groups would be beneficial.Another benefit would be preventing against accidental logical data corruption where QA or Dev environments might be erroneously configured to write to production environments or vice versa. 

The broader security initiative will add more robust controls for these types of environments, and this proposal could be integrated with that work at the appropriate time. This is also the specific request of a large financial services company.

Public Interfaces

The changes proposed here do not affect public interfaces or otherwise interfere with backward compatibility

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