“We’re a global team, with security team members in Romania, India, and the United States, as well as some of our smaller offices, and getting people to collaborate seamlessly across time zones on similar projects can be hard,” Van Horenbeeck says. “We’re not perfect, but we try to address it by encouraging collaborative behaviors, giving individuals within a region autonomy to solve specific problems,” and ensuring there’s opportunity for people to connect in person.

“It is great that we’re a multidisciplinary team,” Van Horenbeeck says. “We have program managers, security engineers, compliance analysts, researchers, and individuals whose expertise is to communicate. In addition to that, we work very closely with our legal partners. [When] you bring all those skills together, you’re going to build better solutions than when you build them in siloes.”

Adobe has created a “trust organization” that unites legal, security, and policy groups.