{"id":3572,"date":"2013-02-14T07:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T15:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=3572"},"modified":"2013-02-14T07:00:37","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T15:00:37","slug":"big-data-and-intelligence-driven-security-smart-machines-attempt-to-re-invent-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/big-data-and-intelligence-driven-security-smart-machines-attempt-to-re-invent-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Data and Intelligence-Driven Security: Smart Machines Attempt to Re-Invent Security"},"content":{"rendered":"

Within the next two years, Big Data will disrupt the status quo in most information security product segments, including fraud detection, governance, risk and compliance, network monitoring, and user authentication and authorization. \u00a0That’s the prediction made in an EMC\/RSA whitepaper titled Big Data Fuels Intelligence-Driven Security<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Eddie Schwartz <\/a>of RSA, the security division of EMC, said that<\/a> “Intelligence-driven security reinforces the idea that no man is an island. When organizations combine outside information with all of their own data that’s available to them they start to see a more informed view of threats… \u00a0In the coming year, top-tier enterprises with progressive security capabilities will adopt intelligence-driven security models based on Big Data analytics. \u00a0Over the next two to three years, this security model will become a way of life.”<\/p>\n

According to an ESG Research report<\/a>, 47 percent of enterprise organizations collect 6TB of security data or more on a monthly basis to support their cyber-security analysis requirements. Furthermore, 43% of enterprise organizations collect \u201csubstantially more\u201d security data then they did 2 years ago while an additional 43% of enterprise organizations collect \u201csomewhat more\u201d security data then they did 2 years ago. \u00a0The type of data that’s being collected includes activities, firewall logs, asset data, vulnerability scans, and DNS logs. \u00a0Increasingly organizations are also beginning to collect large volumes of network data packets.<\/p>\n

The RSA report found that “Big data analytics, when used within an intelligence-driven security program, automates many risk assessments and threat detection processes and puts the advantage of time back in an organization’s hands. \u00a0Big data analytics also helps enhance situational awareness and shorten reaction times to potential risks and problems.”<\/p>\n

That’s not to say that getting from the current state of security to one that’s ‘intelligence driven’ will be a slam dunk. \u00a0Jon Oltsik<\/a>, principal analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) Research, reports on the findings<\/a> from a survey on data security analytics:<\/p>\n

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