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Big data is the hot buzzword in security analytics today, but buyers are skeptical because many companies have spent years building “data lakes” only to discover it was impossible to “drain the lake” to get something useful.

And unfortunately, today’s solutions often include expensive clusters coupled with static business intelligence reports and “sexy” dashboards that look good but add little to useful and productive security analytics. Focusing on the analytics and how to use the data (very valuable data) in order to make real time decisions, discover critical patterns, determine on-going and changing security policies and dramatically improve security – ah – that’s useful.

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