Regulatory mandates often apply to the communication enabled
devices in the previous examples and others. If
regulatory mandates apply, the complexity of the regulated
environment can be compounded because of devices of
this type. For example, a PoS system in a retail location
may be built to conform to payment card industry (PCI)
requirements, but a smoke detector on the same network
may not conform; or a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
machine may be built to comply with the Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) technical
requirements, but the thermostat in an operating theater
may not comply.