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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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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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Atos Taps Senior Accenture Exec to Run Eviden Security Group

Data Breach Today

Current Atos Security Leader to Leave as Company Gets 3rd CEO In Less Than 2 Years Atos snagged the longtime European CEO of Accenture Technology to lead its soon-to-be-independent $5.76 billion cybersecurity, big data and digital unit.

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Big Data Analytics: Taking a Predictive Security Stance

Data Breach Today

Carbon Black's Matt Bennet Shares Insights on Making Big Data Meaningful Big data holds the key to moving from a preventive security stance to a more predictive stance, says Matthew Bennett of Carbon Black.

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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. I had a lively discussion with Craig Hinkley, CEO of NTT Application Security , about the thinking behind this crusade.

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Three Strategies for Big Data Security

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The 2018 Thales Data Threat Report (DTR) has great information on Big Data use and security. We surveyed more than 1,200 senior security executives from around the world, and virtually all (99%) report they plan to use Big Data this year. Top Big Data Security Concerns.