IT security report

Dealing with “big data”, ie extremely large amounts of data, will dominate the company’s agenda in the coming years. From the point of view of IT security, only the analysis of all generated data – a 360-degree view – ensures that cyber threats can be immediately identified in the increasingly complex IT networks.


Explosion of the data sets


Today's technology leads to a rapidly growing data volume. The need for a proactive, continuous and granular inventory of all activities has never been greater than at the moment. It is only through an all-encompassing view that companies can define how many and, above all, what activities on the networks represent the normal, everyday state in the different dimensions of their IT landscape.


High-Tech Cyber ​​Attacks


In addition, they have the ability to analyze all real-time activities that exceed the threshold for this normal behavior, "said Ralph Kreter, Regional Director Central Europe & Middle East, LogRhythm, a provider of log management solutions Br>

Countermeasures


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Rather than avoiding the analysis of large amounts of data, companies should recognize the added value for their own security, which provides intelligent solutions. The automatic analysis is one of the few ways to navigate efficiently through the huge amounts of data, thus also securing large and complex IT networks, the IT security expert adds.


"Over the past few years, the focus of cyber attacks has shifted seriously: in addition to the theft of information and financial delays, critical and critical infrastructure systems are increasingly becoming the target of attacks - with global, negative impacts," says Kreter

"This development is highly worrying, because on the one hand the number of high-tech and complex cyber attacks is constantly increasing, and on the other hand, the world is becoming more and more dependent on technologies." In the meantime, the control of most aspects of daily life takes place over the Internet - from traffic systems to ATMs to intelligent electricity meters and other infrastructure components.


"The number of potential weaknesses continues to grow in the coming years, and many of the country-wide infrastructures still come from a time before the large commercialization of the Internet, and control of system security is often limited to physical components," says Kreter More from


Companies would therefore need to rely on intelligent security platforms that combine multiple functions.


"In the end, one can only take action against threats, which are also aware: only those who know exactly what has happened in their network and have defined the normal state in advance can adequately react to threats, prevent potential damage and uncomprehend an attack" , Explains Kreter.