First, we're still playing catch-up and trying to close our Big Data skills gap there are just too few data security professionals with expertise to feel confident that all business have a handle on their data security.
In a recent study, Forrester calls this "expense in depth," causing 90% of data security professionals to experience persistent technical challenges, including keeping up with evolving cyber threats and dealing with disparate products that don't communicate.
The future lies in analyzing this data to give security professionals a comprehensive view of their security posture.
The NRF and Monster.com suggest what future demand will look like: technologists, app developers, designers, marketers, logistics managers, data security experts, finance professionals, contracting and compliance managers, analysts, and more.
But a key to success will be learning how to more effectively turn data into pictures, so that it tells a story not just to data scientists but to security professionals as well.
NeuStar : This Virginia-based firm ($1.1 billion market cap), a Lockheed Martin spinoff, provides real-time cloud-based information services and data analytics, enabling marketing and IT security professionals to promote and protect their businesses.
The combination of contextual overview and future directions in the field makes this brief a useful resource for researchers and professionals studying systems security, data security and data structures.
What remains to be seen is whether privacy experts, marketers and security professionals can agree that data minimization is an important step.
Because much of the innovation in big data and security is now in the open source world, here are some lessons that data scientists have learned and to which security professionals need to pay attention.
An extremely talented group of individuals, LulzSec have used innovative techniques to access secure digital data which has tested the protective skills of many hardened security professionals.
But today, he added, the need is for automated tools that mine data flows to spot threats and issue alerts to security professionals.
