Take a Holistic Approach to Security, Privacy, and Compliance

by Jason Stradley

An evolution in the nature, methods, and motivation behind perpetrating security breaches has had a profound impact on the business environment. This shift has caused a fundamental altering in the way that an enterprise views information security, privacy, and compliance. The ever-growing compliance framework being built around those concerns fuels the need for the convergence of these disciplines within the enterprise in a more holistic manner than previously imagined. Given all of the change and all of the potential risk that such change implies, how can the functions of security, privacy, and compliance better work together within an enterprise to better ensure the safety of the information with which it has been entrusted?