Defense Technology

Threat Intelligence's Big Data Problem

InformationWeek: Something’s gotta give: nearly three-fourths of enterprises today say they ignore security events because they’re overwhelmed by the deluge of alerts. And that doesn’t even take into account the firehose of threat intelligence data they’re funneling today, a new report shows.

Mega-retailer Target was the poster child for security alert awareness gone bad—the needle in the haystack Target dismissed was actually the clue that it was under a major attack in the fall of 2013. Nearly three years after that epic data breach, security events, alerts, and threat intelligence feeds are exploding in many enterprises hungry for hints that they are in the bullseye. The tradeoff is that this deluge of data is drowning security teams who must sift, separate, and correlate the real threats from the false positives or irrelevant information.

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