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...

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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,...

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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...

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