Analytics

Databricks pitches Lakewatch as a cheaper SIEM — but is it really?

The agentic SIEM shifts costs from ingestion to compute, promising cheaper retention and deeper analytics on enterprise security data.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Mar 26, 20264 mins

AnalyticsSecurity Information and Event Management SoftwareSecurity Software

Articles

How Visa fights fraud

The financial services company has made massive investments in data and analytics to better detect and prevent fraud.

By Mary K. Pratt

Jun 28, 2022 6 mins

AnalyticsFinancial Services IndustryFraud

MassMutual’s Ariel Weintraub on bringing more intelligence to security

For the insurance company CISO, a do-it-yourself approach to security analytics and SOC staffing, pays off in increased agility and quicker responses to threats.

By Mary K. Pratt

Mar 31, 2022 7 mins

IT Skills and TrainingInsurance IndustrySecurity Infrastructure

Moving security operations to the cloud

New ESG research finds organizations are aggressively replacing on-premises security analytics and operations technologies with cloud-based alternatives. The shift comes with both short-term wins and strategic benefits.

By Jon Oltsik

Jan 13, 2020 3 mins

AnalyticsCloud ComputingSecurity

A common user interface for security operations?

Why it's time to change how security analysts visualize, manipulate, interact with, and act upon security telemetry.

By Jon Oltsik

Nov 20, 2019 5 mins

AnalyticsSecurity

Security Services Bridge Gaps Caused by Fragmented Network Environments

May 29, 2018 6 mins

Big DataNetwork SecuritySecurity

4 big changes coming to cybersecurity in 2020 and beyond

The pace of technology and market changes will pick up in 2020, impacting security technologies, innovation, investment, and the industry at large.

By Jon Oltsik

Oct 25, 2019 5 mins

AnalyticsCloud SecurityRisk Management

SOAPA vs. SOAR: How these security terms differ

SOAPA and SOAR look the same, but the terms are vastly different. Security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) tools represent a component of a security operations and analytics platform architecture (SOAPA).

By Jon Oltsik

Sep 13, 2019 4 mins

AnalyticsData and Information SecurityNetwork Security

Security analytics: It’s all about the data

More security data drives the need for data modeling, data management, and data discipline.

By Jon Oltsik

Jul 30, 2019 5 mins

AnalyticsSecurity

Network traffic analysis tools must include these 6 capabilities

Organizations want advanced analytics, threat intelligence integration, and IoT support among other things in network traffic analysis (NTA) tools.

By Jon Oltsik

Jul 18, 2019 3 mins

AnalyticsMalwareNetwork Security

5 threat detection and response technologies are coming together

Organizations use too many disparate point tools to detect and respond to cyber threats in a timely manner. As a result, CISOs want tight integration and interoperability across five cybersecurity technologies.

By Jon Oltsik

May 1, 2019 5 mins

Endpoint ProtectionMalwareThreat and Vulnerability Management

OpenC2 can accelerate security operations, automation, and orchestration

OpenC2, a standards effort from OASIS, has the potential to accelerate and automate risk mitigation and incident response. Users and vendors should jump onboard.

By Jon Oltsik

Apr 2, 2019 3 mins

AnalyticsRisk ManagementSecurity

What to expect at the RSA Conference 2019

The RSA Conference will feature cloud-scale security analytics, endpoint security suites, API security, advanced security services, and a traffic jam of people.

By Jon Oltsik

Feb 26, 2019 4 mins

Cloud SecurityEndpoint ProtectionNetwork Security