"the general hierarchy to be followed when determining security protocols is: "

I believe the answer is: Legislation/regulations, standards, guidelines

Because of the hierarchy, the punishment for each strata of violation is also different. Volating legislation in security protocol can resulted in jailtime, violating standard tend to be resulted in fine since it tend to only related to ethic, while violating guidelines tend to be resulted in inefficiency.

the first settlements began along the huang river because of the importance of the huang river in the beginning of china. it goes back to the story, “the tale of emperor yu”, which references the tale of the great flood, which was caused by the huang river and was believed to create and influence china’s making.