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Big Data Security: Challenges and Solutions

Enterprises are using big data analytics to identify business opportunities, improve performance, and drive decision-making. Many big data tools are open source and not designed with security in mind. The huge increase in data consumption leads to many data security concerns. This article explains how to leverage the potential of big data while mitigating big […]

Let’s Talk Encryption

Click to learn more about author David Schlesinger. Wait! I promise – no math! Really! How encryption happens is not your job, and you may be excused from knowing the algorithms, remembering who discovered what, and why there is a secret key. Encryption systems scramble data into gibberish for protection, and then the gibberish can be […]

Ransomware – The New Cyber Protection Racket

Click to learn more about author David Schlesinger. Now that a number of newsworthy institutions such as hospitals, schools, and government offices, have fallen victim to what is called “Ransomware”, the media have finally noticed it. Ransomware, for those not yet familiar, is a pernicious type of cyber-attack where downloaded malware (i.e. “malware” is malicious software […]

Securonix Unveils Big Data Security Analytics Platform

by Angela Guess A new press release states, “Securonix, the market leader in security analytics and predictive cyber threat detection, announced today the general availability of a next-generation security analytics platform that combines a big data security lake, security incident and event management (SIEM), user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) and cross-channel fraud monitoring and […]

Cybersecurity Weather Report

Click to learn more about author David Schlesinger. This will be brief, as befits a weather report. However, it will need to be a little bit more specific than the typical TV weathercast. First, beware of growing internet storm clouds approaching. These storms are caused by the heating up of state-sponsored hacking groups. Many nations are […]

Zettaset Announces Advanced Encryption Platform for Big Data in the Cloud

by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “Zettaset, the leader in Big Data security, today announced availability of its advanced data protection platform for large-scale cloud environments. The new Zettaset XCrypt™ Cloud Encryption Gateway provides enterprise customers with full client-side encryption control of all data hosted in cloud storage environments as well as […]

Zaloni Offers New Data Lake Management and Governance Platform

PRWeb has published the Zaloni announcement of their new Bedrock Data Lake Management Platform 4.2. Bedrock helps businesses govern and manage data across the enterprise, and Bedrock adds exciting new capabilities around data privacy, security and data lifecycle management. “The updated Bedrock platform gives enterprises more fine-grained control over what data resides in the data lake […]