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Image Source: freepik.com Best Practices for Merging Security and Compliance Within many organizations today, security and compliance teams are running in isolation. This introduces significant enterprise risk, as the security team might be doing what’s best to combat advanced attackers, but their actions may not be in compliance with corporate, industry or federal guidelines. Similarly, the compliance team might be laser-focused on adhering to regulations, but their strategy might be introducing security risks. Tim Woods, VP of Technology Alliances at FireMon, outlines the challenges of operating security and compliance in silos. Every compliance initiative – whether regulatory or internal – poses the same central question: Are you monitoring for change? While the question is a simple one, for many companies, the answer remains elusive. Whenever there’s a data breach, compliance failure or system outage, the first thing business leaders want to know is: What chan