Big data analytics are the future of cyber security Posted on : May 05 - 2015

Developments in hacking culture and enterprise technology mean that big data-led intelligence defences are the future of the security industry, according to EMC.

David Goulden, CEO of information infrastructure at EMC, made the claim during a press session at EMC World attended by V3.

"The security industry is changing dramatically. If you look to the past, firewall and antivirus technologies came up as the main solution in the second platform," he said.

"But at this stage in IT the apps were generally used within the enterprise so it was manageable. But this is no longer the case in the third platform."

Goulden explained that in today's threat landscape there is no way that companies can keep determined adversaries out of their systems.

He added that to overcome the challenge businesses will have to adopt big data analytics solutions that identify and combat malicious activity on the network.

"The two big challenges in security are big data challenges and based on intelligence. The first is how to securely authenticate who is coming into the network," he said.

"The second big challenge in security is the identification of anomalies occurring in your network in real time." View more