The recent bombing at the Boston Marathon serves as a stark reminder that mass violence, whether a result of terrorism or other acts, remains a critical threat for organizations.
With the shift from analog to digital and few managed systems to many, security operations teams are facing new challenges when it comes to managing vast amounts of real-time and archived information, and making sense of it all when important decisions need to be made quickly. Meet big data.
According to a poll, American voters say 48 - 38 percent that the government could use the information from universal background checks to confiscate legally-owned guns.
The signs are all around that Big Data is the first major post-cloud technology that can change our useof data as much as the cloud has changed the way we deploy it.
A new study says that gunshot wounds and deaths cost Americans at least $12 billion a year in court proceedings, insurance costs and hospitalizations paid for by government health programs.
Picture this – in 20 minutes, one enterprising hacker at the 2012 Defcon conference in Las Vegas learned one Wal-Mart store’s physical logistics – from the janitorial contractor to where employees go to lunch – key details about the make and version numbers of the Wal-Mart manager’s PC, browser and anti-virus software, and got the manager to upload the address of an external website into his browser – no questions asked.
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