Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Executive Summary Organizations are challenged today as never before to protect their information assets, as well as the underlying networks and services that gather, store, process, and transmit this information. The same better, faster, cheaper information and communication technologies (ICT) that…
Benchmark cybersecurity analytics service delivers new vulnerability management insights
Top Priority Sector: cyber_security Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology, in partnership with Tripwire, a provider of risk-based security and compliance management solutions, has announced that the top 25 percent of vulnerability management contributors scanned their networks nearly continuously and had an average aggregate host risk score of…
Salient Federal Solutions appoints Cynthia Walker as director of the Data Analytics Center of Excellence
Top Priority Sector: federal_agencies_legislative Fairfax, VA-based Salient Federal Solutions, a provider of information technology, training, engineering, and intelligence analytics services to agencies in the intelligence, defense, homeland security, cyber security, and federal civilian markets, has announced the appointment of Cynthia Walker as director of Salient’s Data Analytics Center of Excellence…
Predictive analytics market to hit $6.5 billion globally by 2019, says Transparency Market Research
Top Priority Sector: security_services According to a new market report, Predictive Analytics Market, published by Transparency Market Research, the market for predictive analytics software is forecast to reach US $6. Read More…. View full post on The Cyber Wars
How to improve critical infrastructure security with geospatial analytics
Jim Stokes Top Priority Sector: law_enforcement_first_responders Read More…. View full post on The Cyber Wars
Human trafficking: Using analytics to address a faceless crime
Dale Peet Top Priority Sector: law_enforcement_first_responders Image Caption: Dale Peet During my entire 23-year career as a police officer, I never dealt specifically with an individual who admitted they were a victim of human trafficking. That doesn’t mean that human trafficking isn’t a problem, or that it doesn’t happen in…
Using social media ‘Big Data’ analytics to analyze or predict events
Louis Chabot Top Priority Sector: cyber_security Image Caption: Louis Chabot In July, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) issued a RFP looking for new Big Data tools to track social media postings and interactions, reflecting a growing interest within government to use social media and open source data to…
Large Volume Predictive Analytics At a Major U.S. Airport
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InfoSec 2012: IBM launches new threat analytics engine
IBM is growing its Security Systems unit with the launch of a new threat analytics appliance, which the company claims can identify suspicious behaviour in the network to protect organisations against hidden threats. IBM launched its Security Systems division in October 2011, drawing together disparate security products developed by IBM…
Guardian Analytics launches mobile banking fraud detection tool
Guardian Analytics launched FraudMAP Mobile this morning, a product for financial institutions that detects possible fraudulent online banking transactions executed with a mobile device. FraudMAP Mobile is an extension of the security vendor’s FraudMAP Online product for desktop computers, which studies how a bank’s customer uses an online banking site….
