The text discusses the importance of balancing security and compliance in today's cloud landscape. It highlights the challenges of integrating these two goals and provides guidance on how to measure an organization's security posture using various metrics, including mean time to detect (MTTD), mean time to acknowledge (MTTA), mean time to resolve (MTTR), intrusion attempts, false positive rates (FPR), security incidents, governance effectiveness, compliance, and preparedness. The text also touches on the use of Service Level Objectives (SLOs) as a framework for gauging success and connecting security to broader operational goals. It emphasizes the need for organizations to tailor their approaches to meet their unique goals and provides examples of how Datadog can help bridge the gap between security and compliance by enabling real-time monitoring and analysis of these key metrics.