"It's the nature of our team's roles that there's always going to be trade-offs. It's hardly ever a simple decision between A and B. So you need to lean into that and get more comfortable with ambiguity." 

Having clear and open communication with your IT or security team is essential to maintaining a secure business. Although, if the correct steps are not taken, working alongside these teams can be challenging. 

Tune in this week as Jen Stone (Principal Security Analyst MCIS, CISSP, CISA, QSA) and Dutch Schwartz (Strategic Lead of Amazon Web Service’ Global Security Services) talk about how to build a straight-forward, strong relationship with your IT and security teams.

Listen to learn: 

• Steps to improve interpersonal relationships within your IT department
• How to maintain good communication between departments
• How to approach problem solving tasks with multiple teams
  
  
  

Resources:

Dutch's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dutchschwartz/

Dutch's Twitter: https://twitter.com/dutch_26

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