This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.rstudio.com/blog/how-data-scientists-and-security-teams-can-work-together
Photo by Liliane Limpens on Unsplash Data scientists are hungry for every bit of data they can use in their work. Security teams, on the other hand, are primarily concerned with making sure that data stays put and no one ever gets access without authorization. There’s a natural tension, which can result in friction and miscommunication.
Gordon Shotwell, lead data scientist at Socure, has dealt with this tension firsthand.