• Natives restless with SIEM, study shows

  By John P. Mello Jr. | 07 March, 2013 00:15

  Complexity, manpower requirements among IT gripes

• RSA: IT security managers skeptical on Big Data Security proposition

  By Ellen Messmer | 28 February, 2013 17:19

  While "Big Data Security" is now the industry buzzword and defines a way to get enterprise customers into a new method of threat detection based on mining massive amounts of security-event and business data to pinpoint threats, the response from a few IT shops seems to be"thanks, but no thanks."

• Do enterprise security teams want Big Data Security?

  By Ellen Messmer | 27 February, 2013 17:35

  A big theme at the RSA Conference this year is a concept known as Big Data Security -- the idea that massive amounts of data related to both network security and of business context should be stockpiled to be analyzed to pinpoint malware, rogue insiders and stealthy attacks aimed at stealing sensitive data.

• Evolving security standards a challenge for cloud computing, expert says

  By Ellen Messmer | 08 November, 2012 15:53

  Any enterprise looking to use cloud computing services will also be digging into what laws and regulations might hold in terms of security and privacy of data stored in the cloud. At the Cloud Security Alliance Congress in Orlando this week, discussion centered on two important regulatory frameworks now being put in place in Europe and the U.S.

• Splunk explains it all

  By Joel Snyder | 26 September, 2011 14:28 | 2 Comments

  If there's gold in log files, Splunk, Inc's Splunk will help you to find it. Splunk bridges the gap between simple log management and security information and event management (SIEM) products from vendors such as ArcSight, RSA, Q1 Labs, and Symantec.

• 12 hybrid security products to watch

  By Christine Burns | 11 February, 2013 06:19

  Securing a hybrid cloud is not the same thing as deploying hybrid security products.

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