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Data Deletion in a World with Endless Storage

Storing data has become so easy and inexpensive that for many organizations there’s effectively no limit to the amount of data they’ll keep. Adding more space in the data center or, increasingly, taking advantage of Read more…

2018: A Big Data Year in Review

As 2018 comes to a close, it's worth taking some time to look back on the major events that occurred this year in the big data, data science, and AI space. There's a lot that occurred – and a lot that we chronicled in Read more…

Data Breaches and Abuses Abound, But Regulatory Appetite Appears Lacking

The holiday season brought no respite from the recent spate of data breaches that have compromised the private data of millions of Americans, with Marriott International bearing the brunt of the bad news. However, despit Read more…

Six Months In, GDPR’s Impact Uncertain In the U.S.

We've barely scratched the surface on the impacts of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the far-reaching European Union law that went into effect six months ago. As European law enforcement organizations prep Read more…

Telemedicine Breach Highlights Database Vulnerabilities

Each day, it seems, brings another major data breach, many involving human errors such as ensuring that security and privacy settings are properly configured before data is exposed to “the wild,” that is, the intern Read more…

Now Hiring: Data Protection Officer

With GDPR now in effect, companies will need to ensure ongoing compliance, which may include appointing a data protection officer (DPO). In the United States and Europe alone, that translates to an estimated 28,000 new D Read more…

Does Open Source Boost Security? Hortonworks Says Yes

Organizations are best served security-wise if they favor and adopt open source technology -- especially enterprise open source -- over proprietary alternatives, according to Hortonworks. However, not everybody agrees th Read more…

Sumo Logic Broadens Reach Into Modern Machine Data

Sumo Logic today announced a range of new features in its cloud-based analytics platform that should improve its customers' capability to glean operational and security insights from machine data emanating from modern ap Read more…

Why Security Pros Need To Think Like Data Gurus

In the information security space, innovation is the name of the game. When your adversary ups her game, you must take steps to improve yours too. But according to security experts, today's cyber threats have grown so so Read more…

Okera Emerges from Stealth with Big Data Fabric

While data platforms like Hadoop and object stores like S3 have become popular places for organizations to stash massive amounts of data, the platforms haven't solved companies' data management challenges. In fact, they' Read more…

Danger and Difficulty Temper Data’s Huge Potential

It has been called the new oil, the new currency, the new religion. It is data, of course, and it's having a monumental impact on how we build business systems in the 21st century. However, for all the potential benefits Read more…

‘Unlinkable Data Challenge’ Opens with $50k Grand Prize

Think you have a clever way to unlock big public data for analysis without compromising citizens' privacy? Then the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) would like to hear from you for its "Unlinkable Da Read more…

Mr. Robot Thrills Elastic Crowd with Real-World Hacks

Have you ever watched a hacking scene in a TV show or a movie and cringed at the flashing lights, the whirring sirens, and other ridiculous depictions of technology? The folks behind the hit hacker drama Mr. Robot sure h Read more…

Five Tips for Winning at Data Governance

By now, you've hopefully realized that having a great data analytics strategy also requires having a good data governance strategy. After all, if your data is ungovernable, then the analytics you're running atop it will Read more…

Keeping Your Models on the Straight and Narrow

Organizations of all stripes have adopted predictive models to help drive decision-making. But an increased reliance on machine learning can quickly turn into an expensive liability if bias, privacy, and other concerns a Read more…

Masking Technical Complexity in the Security Data Lake

Today's growing cybersecurity threat demands a sophisticated response, one that increasingly involves the utilization of big data technologies like parallel file systems and machine learning. However, some security exper Read more…

How ‘Purple Rain’ Bolsters Security Intelligence for Capital One

In the cat-and-mouse game of cyber security, sometimes you win, and sometimes the bad guys get a victory. Thanks to a powerful new security framework dubbed "Purple Rain," the folks at Capital One are setting themselves Read more…

The Next Data Revolution: Intelligent Real-Time Decisions

Over the past decade, big data analysis and applications have revolutionized practices in business and science. They enabled new businesses (e.g., Facebook, Netflix), to disrupt existing industries (e.g., Airbnb, Uber), Read more…

Speed of the Essence for ‘Machine Data’ Analytics

The ability to automate the analysis of "machine data" is most widely leveraged to speed IT operations along with use cases such as data security, a new industry survey finds, while accelerating the analysis of ephemeral Read more…

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