Data analytics is at the juncture of man and machine

The network, in my mind’s eye, feels like a complex labyrinth with winding passages leading to opened and closed ports and firewalls exploding. Interestingly, when I did a little Google search to make sure I had my Greek mythology correct, I stumbled across this nugget of wisdom.

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In reference to Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and the labyrinth built by Daedalus, Wikipedia warns, “This story thus encourages others to consider the long-term consequences of their own inventions with great care, lest those inventions do more harm than good.”



From what I hear, the myriad of security tools that elicit alerts of potential threats can sometimes do just that. Because IT folks are “inundated” and “barraged” with alerts, they stop paying attention to them all together. The result is exactly then the same consequence of an invention doing more harm than good. Whether that perception is true or false is up for debate.

Sisense CEO Amir Orad holds that data analytics can be used to improve security in the enterprise.

“Getting endless alerts is a problem. It’s too much, too many applications, and too much traffic,” Orad said. “What is happening now at large organizations is that they have way too many incidents, and we are trying to analyze all the events they are getting from the various systems then they have to determine what is a priority within those incident."

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