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Security in 2013: The “Productization” of Big Data

posted by Scott Crawford | January 29, 2013 | 0 Comments

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(UPDATE: This week, both IBM and EMC’s RSA Security Division announced new Big Data initiatives in security. More to come on this front…) In my last post, I noted that I expect intelligence and the coordination and integration of defense technologies to be key drivers of the IT security market in 2013. This is not...

Posted in Security Tags: big data, Data-driven security, EMC Corporation, Hadoop, HP, IBM, intelligence, NetWitness, RSA Conference, RSA Security, Security information and event management, SIEM, Splunk

Validating the Rise of Data-Driven Security: EMC/RSA Acquires Silver Tail

posted by Scott Crawford | October 30, 2012 | 0 Comments

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This morning, EMC’s RSA Security Division announced its intent to acquire Silver Tail Systems. The press release is here. I’ve written about Silver Tail before, going back to one of my first posts on the rise of data-driven security. In a five-part blog series introduced by that post, I described how data-driven security is evolving...

Posted in Security Tags: big data, Data-driven security, RSA Security, Silver Tail Systems

Why I’m at IBM’s Information on Demand Conference This Week

posted by Scott Crawford | October 22, 2012 | 0 Comments

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This week, I’m at a big vendor’s big conference – a conference which, on the surface, may not appear to be primarily about security: IBM’s Information on Demand event in Las Vegas. “But you’re a security analyst. Why are you going to IOD?” you ask. (And if you didn’t, let me explain:) With over 12,000...

Posted in Security Tags: BI, big data, Data-driven security, GRC, IBM, risk management

The Rise of Data-Driven Security: Research Report Now in the EMA Library

posted by Scott Crawford | August 2, 2012 | 0 Comments

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For the last several months, I’ve been heads-down on a research project that culminates over a year of investigation into the rise of what I have been calling “data-driven security”: security efforts informed and defined by their reliance on insight – and increasingly enabled by emerging technologies for large-scale data management, as well as by...

Posted in Security Tags: big data, Data analysis, Data-driven security, Research

Security and Big Data: Two Sore Points and Seven Questions

posted by Scott Crawford | February 2, 2012 | 0 Comments

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There’s no question that the intersections of Big Data and security have grabbed a lot of attention in the year-plus since I’ve been blogging on this topic. Indeed, it seems that Big Data will be one of the major focus areas at the RSA Conference a month hence: I count at least three sessions and...

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Security: A Big Data Problem?

posted by Scott Crawford | October 20, 2011 | 0 Comments

Last week, I had the opportunity to spend a few days with a truly interesting and diverse group of practitioners, who I think are on to the future of information security. It will come as no surprise to anyone who follows this blog that I believe that future is centered on the ability to do...

Posted in Security Tags: big data, Data-driven security, Trends

This Week in New York: A Real-World Workshop on Big Data and Security Intelligence

posted by Scott Crawford | October 10, 2011 | 0 Comments

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With the acquisitions of Q1Labs and NitroSecurity last week, the industry’s attention has been drawn anew to the value of security information and event management (SIEM). In the enterprise, SIEM is often the focus of security operations, collecting data from a variety of point products, management and monitoring systems. But as I wrote on Tuesday,...

Posted in Security Tags: big data, Data-driven security, Hadoop, Zettaset, Zions Bancorporation

Beyond SIEM: IBM-Q1Labs, McAfee-NitroSecurity and Changing Perceptions of Data-Driven Security

posted by Scott Crawford | October 4, 2011 | 0 Comments

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This morning, a pair of announcements were made in the same space: IBM and McAfee are both making acquisitions in security information and event management (SIEM); IBM of Q1Labs, McAfee of NitroSecurity. On the surface, there appear to be few surprises in these deals. Both “acquirees” have been widely rumored to be close to an...

Posted in Security Tags: big data, Data-driven security, IBM, intelligence, McAfee, NitroSecurity, Q1Labs, SIEM

Data-Driven Security Trendspotting: Big Data

posted by Scott Crawford | August 1, 2011 | 0 Comments

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I’ve been looking over this year’s Black Hat agenda with an eye toward new thinking on a topic I’ve been blogging about over the last several months: the rise of data-driven security. By this I mean the increased leverage of data mining and analysis to deliver more detailed and accurate insight into the reality of security posture...

Posted in Security Tags: big data, Data-driven security, GOTO Metrics, Hadoop, Pervasive Software, security analytics, Zettaset

Security in the Era of Big Data

posted by Scott Crawford | December 16, 2010 | one Comments

A lot of ink (digital and otherwise) has been spilled over Wikileaks this year, but there is one central aspect of the recent “cablegate” case that I wonder if we really get in infosec: Simply put, information has gotten huge – and this doesn’t just mean the content we must protect. The sheer volume of...

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