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OIG: VA Workers Hid ‘Big Data’ Project Privacy, Security Risks

Data Breach Today

Report on Canceled VA Project Offers Governance Lessons for Others The Department of Veterans Affairs’ watchdog agency alleges that two VA employees “concealed” and “mispresented” the cybersecurity and privacy risks of an ambitious "big data" project that would have analyzed 22 million veterans’ health records dating back two decades.

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Big Data Analytics' Role in Security

Data Breach Today

Splunk's Haiyan Song Shares Insights on Addressing Emerging Threats Big data analytics can help security professionals stay ahead of emerging challenges in a rapidly changing threat landscape, says Splunk's Haiyan Song.

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MY TAKE: What if Big Data and AI could be intensively focused on health and wellbeing?

The Last Watchdog

The blue-sky mission is to bring modern data mining and machine learning technologies to bear delivering personalized services that ameliorate not just physical ailments, but also mental and even emotional ones. The healthcare industry’s Big Data disconnect seems entrenched. Fixing data governance. The current U.S.

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Waging a War on Cybercrime With Big Data and AI

Data Breach Today

He discusses how to use massive lists of historical data to train AI to spot and stop malicious activity. Some 95% of today’s compromises are either zero-day exploits or malware-free attacks; that means that signature-based behavioral defenses only work for 5% of attacks, says Joe Head of Intrusion Inc.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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Cloud Security: 'Big Data' Leak Prevention Essentials

Data Breach Today

Big data analytics and search tools give organizations the ability to analyze information faster than ever before. But too many organizations deactivate security controls built into Elasticsearch, Amazon S3 buckets and MongoDB when they deploy, leaving their data exposed, says Elastic's James Spiteri.

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Role of Big Data in Human Resource Management

AIIM

Those who have been practicing Human resource management for years knows the importance of relying on data analytics for creating an enhanced work culture or else they might lag behind that of other departments. With the ever-growing technology advancement, Human Resource professionals have started embracing the future: data analysis.

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Top Considerations for Building an Open Cloud Data Lake

Data fuels the modern enterprise — today more than ever, businesses compete on their ability to turn big data into essential business insights. Increasingly, enterprises are leveraging cloud data lakes as the platform used to store data for analytics, combined with various compute engines for processing that data.

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12 Considerations When Evaluating Data Lake Engine Vendors for Analytics and BI

Businesses today compete on their ability to turn big data into essential business insights. To do so, modern enterprises leverage cloud data lakes as the platform used to store data for analytical purposes, combined with various compute engines for processing that data.