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How to Manage Your Data When Expecting Brexit

The implications of a possible Brexit on privacy and compliance-related statutes, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Privacy Shield, and the Data Protection Act of 2018 (DPA) are vast. These regulatio Read more…

Sumo Logic Bolsters SIEM with JASK Play

Sumo Logic says it will be better positioned to protect clients from high volumes of security alerts in today's "perimeter-less" world thanks to today's acquisition of JASK Labs and its security information and event man Read more…

How Cloudera Is Battling Shadow IT with CDP

"Come use our analytics service in the cloud, but don't tell your IT department. It'll be our little secret." The siren call of shadow IT has tempted many business units with promises of fast results. But it's also exace Read more…

Back to Basics: Governance, Quality, Security Grab the Spotlight at Strata Data Conference

The Wild West days of big data may not be totally gone, but it sort of felt that way this week on the Strata Data Conference's Expo floor. Yes, there were vendors hawking the latest machine learning technology, but there Read more…

Data Gone Wild: Rampant Growth and Clouds Heighten Risk

Data may be the new oil, serving as the digital feedstock for innumerable downstream products. But like oil, data also carries risks for those attempting to harness it. Could a Deepwater Horizon-style event be lurking in Read more…

What to Expect at Strata This Week

We knew that big data was also fast. But what we didn't fully grasp perhaps was just how fast the technology changes. This week's Strata Data Conference is setting up to be a prime example of the punctuated equilibrium w Read more…

Governing Consumer Data to Improve Quality and Enforce Privacy

Consumer data is at the center of today’s digital economy. Arguably, it has become the world’s most valuable resource. Alphabet (Google’s parent company), Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft are the world’s mos Read more…

Data Regs and Facebook Fines: Dragging Us Toward Better Security

"Be like Facebook." That was the rallying cry in the early days of the big data boom, when companies were striving to monetize as much data as possible, and Facebook was the poster child of a new breed of company. But in Read more…

GDPR and the Transparency Revolution

It’s been over a year since GDPR went into effect, and in that time, the regulation has driven a great deal of meaningful conversations around consumer privacy and enterprise data management policies. In an age where " Read more…

Capital One Hack Highlights Poor Data Security Practices

A former AWS employee has been accused of accessing Capital One's misconfigured S3 storage buckets and copying the data of about 100 million Americans and 6 million Canadians to GitHub in the country's latest massive dat Read more…

Big Data Is Still Hard. Here’s Why

We're over a decade into the big data era that emerged from the tectonic collision of mobile, Web 2.0, and cloud forces. Bolstered by progress in machine learning, we stand at the cusp of a new AI era that promises even Read more…

Data Privacy and Smart Streaming Discovery: Getting Past the Furor

There’s a lot of furor worldwide about all of the data privacy regulations that are either in place, about to go into place, or are being debated as to whether they should go into place.  Just because there are rules Read more…

China and Iran Hacks Demonstrate Need for Better AI-Based Defense

Two events that were uncovered recently -- the cyberattack waged by Iran against the United States and the hack of 10 global telecommunications firms suspected by China -- underscores the growing need to improve security Read more…

How Dark Data, DevOps, and IT Complexity Are Hurting Security

Despite the lip service paid to being "data-driven," the average organization fails to collect or process more than half of the data it generates, according to a new report from Splunk. From an operational standpoint, th Read more…

4 Apache Cassandra Pitfalls You Must Avoid

The distributed nature of Apache Cassandra – boasting an architecture that avoids any single point of failure – enables the open source database to deliver the high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful r Read more…

Elastic Eyes Security and APM for Expansion Effort

IT administrators have long relied on the Elastic Stack to gain insight into the behavior of their servers and networks. Now the company behind the popular suite of tools is headed up the stack to take on big data challe Read more…

Surviving the Coming Data Governance Wave

A data governance wave is building in the United States. If you put your ear to the ground, you can hear it rumbling. It's inevitable that new regulations eventually will emerge that dictate how companies must ensure the Read more…

Filling Cybersecurity Blind Spots with Unsupervised Learning

What you don't know can hurt you. And when you're processing millions of transactions per day, what you don't know probably is hurting you. That's why using unsupervised machine learning techniques to create a fuller pic Read more…

Data Management Falls Short for Unstructured Data

Although data-centric enterprises have adequate strategies in place for managing their structured data, current tools are not sufficient for managing the recent wave of unstructured data growth, according to a new report Read more…

Data Privacy Day Shines Spotlight on Analytics, Looming Regs

How will you mark Data Privacy Day? There are some people who might take to the streets in protest of data abuses, and they would be justified in doing so. But others will use today's unofficial holiday to highlight a po Read more…

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