Businesses today are striving to keep up with a rapidly evolving security and compliance landscape. Change is everywhere. Regulations are multiplying. Traditional perimeters are falling away. Enterprises are becoming more distributed, using technology to interact with customers more effectively, improve supply chains, expand outside partnerships, and transition internal workforces to work from home environments. This is creating tremendous value. But it’s also creating new risks.

Looking at security through a business lens

In this podcast hosted by Evan Schuman, Don Elledge explains that he anticipated many of these changes in the early 2000s, when he was still a partner at Deloitte. He talks about how he built Edgile as a security consulting firm that looks at digital transformation through a business lens, creating client solutions that capture strategic advantages through technology.

“Edgile’s business-aligned security approach is proactive, not reactive, and in sync with what the modern enterprise needs to do,” explains Elledge. “We combine expertise in three distinct practice areas—Identity, GRC/IRM, and Cloud Security—enabling clients to approach security not as a cost center but as a growth enabler.”

About the speaker

Don Elledge

Don Elledge founded Edgile in 2001 and is responsible for growing the company into a leading security and risk services organization serving Fortune 500 companies. Don advises clients on security and risk issues driven by the rapidly changing technology environment. His forward-thinking views have positioned Edgile as a trusted, strategic partner.

About the host

Evan Schuman

Evan Schuman is a veteran IT journalist who currently writes for DarkReading and Computerworld. His byline has appeared in articles for numerous media companies, including The New York Times, Associated Press, Reuters, TechCrunch and eWEEK. Evan has been been quoted on security issues in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and Time, among others. He has consulted on cybersecurity content issues for Microsoft, Capital One, Harvard Business Review, JPMorgan and MIT, and regularly lectures on cybersecurity topics at Columbia University and New York University.