The combination of the polymorphic nature of malware, failure of signature-based security tools, and massive amounts of data and traffic flowing in and out of enterprise networks is making threat management using traditional approaches virtually impossible. Until now, security has been based largely on the opinions of researchers who investigate attacks through reverse engineering, homegrown tools and general hacking. In contrast, the Big Data movement makes it possible to analyze an enormous volume of widely varied data.
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Needle in a Haystack: Harnessing Big Data for Security
Posted by: Dan Hubbard September 14, 2013 05:00 AMThe combination of the polymorphic nature of malware, failure of signature-based security tools, and massive amounts of data and traffic flowing in and out of enterprise networks is making threat management using traditional approaches virtually impossible. Until now, security has been based largely on the opinions of researchers who investigate attacks through reverse engineering, homegrown tools and general hacking. In contrast, the Big Data movement makes it possible to analyze an enormous volume of widely varied data.