The role of streaming machine learning in encrypted traffic analysis

Organizations now create and move more data than at any time ever before in human history. Network traffic continues to increase, and global internet bandwidth grew by 29% in 2021, reaching 786 Tbps. In addition to record traffic volumes, 95% of traffi… Continue reading The role of streaming machine learning in encrypted traffic analysis

How organizations analyze data to source insights that inform business decisions

ChaosSearch shared key findings from a survey of 1,020 U.S. IT professionals on data retention, data usage, and investments in data lake and cloud data platforms. The findings show that IT talent may be wasted on moving, migrating, pipelining, and tran… Continue reading How organizations analyze data to source insights that inform business decisions

Which technologies can help legal and compliance teams navigate a changing landscape of risk?

In this interview with Help Net Security, Zack Hutto, Director of Advisory Services at Gartner‘s Legal and Compliance Practice, talks about the challenges legal and compliance teams are facing and the technologies that can help them. What are tod… Continue reading Which technologies can help legal and compliance teams navigate a changing landscape of risk?

Seqera Labs grabs $5.5M to help sequence Covid-19 variants and other complex data problems

Bringing order and understanding to unstructured information located across disparate silos has been one of more significant breakthroughs of the big data era, and today a European startup that has built a platform to help with this challenge specifically in the area of life sciences — and has, notably, been used by labs to sequence […] Continue reading Seqera Labs grabs $5.5M to help sequence Covid-19 variants and other complex data problems

Three reasons why ransomware recovery requires packet data

Data from SonicWall’s 2021 Cyber Threat Report showed more ransomware attacks in the first half of 2021 than in all of 2020. Much of the recent conversation around ransomware (fueled by attacks like the Colonial Pipeline and Kaseya) has focused on prev… Continue reading Three reasons why ransomware recovery requires packet data

Companies betting on data must value people as much as AI

The truth is, we are still early when it comes to data transformation. The success of tech giants that put data at the core of their business models set off a spark that is only starting to take off. Continue reading Companies betting on data must value people as much as AI

Executives have increased business analytics usage

The pandemic has spurred rapid adoption of enterprise technologies around the globe, according to ManageEngine. The first report of The 2021 Digital Readiness Survey found that U.S. executives have truly upped the ante — 67% have increased their use of… Continue reading Executives have increased business analytics usage

Acoustic: Solving a CyberDefenders PCAP SIP/RTP Challenge with R, Zeek, tshark (& friends)

Hot on the heels of the previous CyberDefenders Challenge Solution comes this noisy installment which solves their Acoustic challenge. You can find the source Rmd on GitHub, but I’m also testing the limits of WP’s markdown rendering and putting it in-s… Continue reading Acoustic: Solving a CyberDefenders PCAP SIP/RTP Challenge with R, Zeek, tshark (& friends)