Business leaders and chief security officers take note: when it comes to risk mitigation, compliance alone is not enough to protect your enterprise. It takes a broader security strategy--of which compliance is a part of the whole--to hit the high-water mark. In fact, those organizations that focus on security first to become compliant are seeing greater business impact. Instead of focusing solely on meeting compliance benchmarks, these companies are changing the way they achieve a high-water mark for security performance.

Let's face it, we are entering an era of tighter statutory requirements and rapidly changing regulations. But focusing solely on statute requirements can lead to a disjointed strategy that is neither comprehensive nor aligned with business goals. While compliance mandates are often used to drive security investments, compliance by itself does not ensure a company's security posture.

And while compliance cannot be the sole focus of a security strategy, technology by itself cannot safeguard an enterprise. Increasingly sophisticated threats and growing concerns over data losses are just a few of the issues facing CSOs. For this reason, businesses simply cannot afford to think about security in purely technical terms.

Instead, businesses must look beyond their technology and compliance needs and understand the challenges of ensuring their company's security posture. Achieving this level of transparency requires the right mix of innovation,