I’ve written about both topics from many angles and now, as the industry becomes more focused on automation as a cornerstone of effective security, the secret to making meaningful progress in both areas is to leverage the symbiotic relationship between them. In other words, using automation to make your people more efficient, and using your people to make automation more effective. It requires a balanced approach where repetitive, low-risk, time-consuming tasks are prime candidates for automation, while human analysts take the lead on irregular, high-impact, time-sensitive investigations with automation simplifying some of the work.