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The EMC division’s latest moves may herald the approach of more user friendly analytics offerings, Stefanie Hoffman writes

By Stefanie Hoffman

No one can deny that Big Data has changed the way we think about, store, secure and process information. At the very least, it’s one of the most salient and disruptive trends that has emerged in the last few years. And it’s not going away any time soon, likely spurring long-lasting changes to the IT environment for years to come.

That fact has been reaffirmed in a new brief by RSA, the security division of EMC, which maintains that Big Data is expected to alter almost every discipline in information security dramatically and be the driving force behind sweeping changes throughout the industry. It’s a trend that will fuel intelligence-oriented security models down the road.

Eddie Schwartz, chief information security officer at RSA, said: “In the coming year, top-tier enterprises with progressive security capabilities will adopt intelligence-driven security models based on Big Data analytics. Over the next two to three years, this security model will become a way of life.”

And that means the channel should start refreshing security portfolios with a Big Data focus and rev solutions that harness intelligence garnered from massive quantities of data.

Many of those changes are well underway. RSA projects that organisations will regularly deploy and release off-the-shelf Big Data offerings that support their security endeavours over the coming year.

The trend comes as a sharp contrast to past deployments, in which Big Data analytics tools were custom-built to be deployed in SOCs. However, 2013 will likely usher in a trend of commercialised Big Data offerings that will ultimately make the technology more intuitive and accessible for more users.

Inevitably, over time, Big Data also will change the nature of conventional security conventions, such as anti-malware, data loss prevention and firewalls.

Three to five years down the road, data analytics tools will likely evolve to enable greater advanced predictive capabilities and automated controls. This promises to expand threat analytics and intelligence markets further, RSA predicts.

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