Confused about SOX, HIPAA, or GLBA? Try this.

Regulatory compliance, accounting, law, rules by the book, ... Ahem, not very interesting for us developers. But, it ought to be especially if you are developing applications for large corporations and the public sector.

There's a nice article on MSDN that demystifies a lot of questions up in the air when it comes to Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), HIPAA, and others.