... if your company or your job depend are at stake, that's often a risk you have to take

Take all the risks you want. Just be sure that you're the one actually taking the risk, not the people whose data you manage. I get really tired of people and companies who claim that it was a necessary risk when they're not the ones paying for the bad outcomes.

You risk something by standing your ground, not in agreeing to that which puts me at risk.