The Cloud Security Alliance EMEA Congress ran in Edinburgh. The Big Data Working Group released a report, Big Data for Security Intelligence, that details how the landscape of security analytics is changing. Visit https://cloudsecurityalliance.org.
The report details the introduction and widespread use of new tools and opportunities for using large quantities of structured and unstructured data. The initial report also outlines some of the fundamental differences from traditional analytics and highlights possible research directions in Big Data security.
Alvaro Cardenas, lead author of the report, said: “The goal of Big Data analytics for security is to obtain actionable intelligence in real time. Although Big Data analytics holds significant promise, there are a number of challenges that must be overcome to realize its true potential. We have only just begun, but are anxious to move forward in helping the industry understand its potential with new research directions in Big Data security.”
In addition to looking at the differences between traditional analytics and Big Data analytics, the report discusses the impact of Big Data analytics on security, includes examples of Big Data usage in security contexts (network security, advanced persistent threats, enterprise event analytics and netflow monitoring to identify botnets), outlines a platform for experimentation on anti-virus telemetry data, and raises questions about the role of Big Data in security analytics. To access a full copy of the report visit: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/download/big-data-analytics-for-security-intelligence/.
The CSA held a dedicated session to discuss the research report at CSA Congress EMEA. Wilco van Ginkel, co-chair of the CSA Big Data Working Group and head of Enterprise Strategy at Verizon Enterprise Solutions will lead the “Big Data Working Group” session, which will focus on the report findings, along with a number of other relevant topics including the diversity of challenges facing enterprises surrounding Big Data analytics, a review of the Top 10 Big Data and Security and Privacy Challenges, and an investigation into the best practices to overcome the toughest Big Data challenges.
The CSA Big Data Working Group, chaired by Sreeranga Rajan, Director, Software Systems at Fujitsu Laboratories of America and co-chaired by Neel Sundaresan, Senior Director and Head of eBay Research Labs at eBay and van Ginkel is focused on taking industry ownership in addressing the urgency for collaborative research and solutions on Big Data topics. The group says that it’s working to address the security and privacy issues magnified by the velocity, volume, and variety of Big Data, such as large-scale cloud infrastructures, diversity of data sources and formats, streaming nature of data acquisition and high volume inter-cloud migration. The group consists of more than 30 CSA member companies in collaboration to provide industry guidance for Big Data security.
Visit: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/research/big-data/
