The GSN 2015 Digital Yearbook

GSN 2015 DIGITAL YEARBOOK OF HOMELAND SECURITY AWARDS RECIPIENTS
IT Security Products and Solutions
RSA, The Security Division of EMC
2015 Winner
Awards Category:
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Best Big Data Analytics Solution
Name of Nominated Product, Service,
or Program:
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RSA Security Analytics
Reason this entry deserves to win:
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The application of Big Data Analytics/Data Science
techniques to the challenge of IT security is in its early
stages, but what is clear given the seemingly unending
stream of major breaches, is that what the security
industry is doing today isn’t working. A new approach
to IT security is needed. A key challenge is that the
detection of what can be very subtle and targeted attacks
is nearly impossible with the signature, perimeter,
and log/SIEM dependent security systems that are most
prevalent today. The attraction of Big Data Analytics
and its associated Data Science techniques are that they
provide capabilities that are most in need to address
today’s security challenges, namely the ability to ingest
and manipulate a very large and diverse set of data
from across an enterprise, over a long time horizon,
and apply analytic techniques to it which are tuned to
finding subtle signals of an attack amongst the everyday
normal activity of the organization. Attackers have
learned to hide in plain sight and move low-and-slow to
remain undetected. By using Data Science models with
the right data, one can shine a light on this activity. RSA
Security Analytics deserves to win this award because
it uniquely combines the ability to collect, ingest and
make sense out of large amounts of internal telemetry
– logs, events, full network traffic, netflow, endpoint
activity, IT asset, identity, and other business context
and combine it with external threat intelligence to
massively increase the security visibility of the organization.
To this data RSA Security Analytics applies multiple
detective analytic techniques, including those based
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