Engineer Explains: Balancing compliance and agility

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The secret behind enabling teams to react swiftly and achieve optimal productivity without compromising compliance.

A SOC framework is a set of protocols, best practices, and guidelines that provide a well-defined approach to building and managing a Security Operation Center (SOC).

It’s more like a recipe for cybersecurity success, defining the key elements and processes needed to protect your organizational data and other digital assets.

Or, as Dan Mazzella, Global Director of Software Development at Arcadis, puts it – for junior developers, it’s a way to understand the steps they need to take; for seniors, it means documenting the way they work; and for CTOs, it’s a protection against getting sued.

Watch Dan as he explains how software developers can balance SOC compliance and agility:

This video is a part of ShiftMag’s video series, Engineer Explains.

We’ve asked experienced engineers to share how they would explain some basic and some less basic tech terminology to different tech job titles or at three levels of experience — from junior developer to CTO.

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