In an increasingly data-driven world, businesses are constantly striving to gather operational and customer data and to distil it into valuable business insights. What is often overlooked is the value of cyber security data analytics in helping to manage the cyber threat. This insight comes potentially from the security tools deployed to monitor various aspects of the infrastructure, and also from those deployed to monitor Network Operations.
Every day we see media coverage on the latest major cyber security breaches. At the same time, the threat landscape increases exponentially as new technologies such as the Internet of Things, big data and cloud computing expand the attack surface.
There has also been a step change in the threat environment from such things as state sponsored cyber activity, the leaking of ‘industrial strength’ state developed hacking tools into the wild (in particular the US National Security Agency tools such as ‘Eternal Blue’ and ‘Eternal Romance’, available on the web and used to facilitate the globally impacting WannaCry, NotPetya and Bad Rabbit cyber attacks). Added to the sheer volume of stolen credentials available on the web and…
