Johannesburg, 04 Mar 2014
Story highlights:
* RSA and Pivotal have announced the availability of a Big Data for Security Analytics reference architecture, providing insights into the visibility, analytics and actionable intelligence organisations need to detect and investigate today's security threats.
* RSA Security Analytics, supported by Pivotal Hadoop technology, helps organisations quickly detect, investigate and respond to security incidents before they have the opportunity to impact business.
* The RSA Pivotal Reference Architecture serves as a guide to organisations looking to create a scalable approach to security analytics, and also ties into a wider approach to analytics of IT operations data and the creation of an "IT Data Lake".
RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC), has announced the availability of a new reference architecture created with Pivotal to help organisations add flexibility and power to security analytics while laying the foundation for broader IT analytics investments. Building on the expertise of both RSA and Pivotal, this reference architecture helps organisations gain insights into the visibility, analytics and actionable intelligence they need to detect and investigate today's security threats while also providing a solid foundation for a broader 'IT Data Lake' strategy, which helps to control costs and enables organisations to gain maximum value from IT systems.
Additionally, the new reference architecture showcases how the technologies from both companies can work together to help organisations investigate and respond to security incidents before they have the opportunity to impact the business. Together, RSA and Pivotal can help security analysts and incident responders with:
* Greater visibility through full network packet capture, log collection and contextual data enrichment to spot threats designed to evade detection by common security tools.
* Enhanced analytics at the time of packet capture and throughout its life cycle to its archival and retirement, to spot anomalies and reveal indicators of attack and compromise.
* Actionable intelligence through data visualisation, feeds of suspicious activity, and prioritisation of alerts that allow analysts to respond appropriately to threats.
* Enterprise deployability and scale, using distributed, high availability, scale-out architectures that allow for expansion and flexibility to scale to the largest of environments.
* Flexibility and agility through the ability to take advantage of new analytics modules and new data sources as they are developed or integrated, ensuring security operations are 'future-proofed' as threats and business processes evolve.
Leveraging an open Hadoop-based data warehouse, RSA Security Analytics allows customers to take advantage of the innovations coming out of the Hadoop ecosystem. By partnering with Pivotal, RSA is able to offer customers the most complete set of analytics tools on the market today - delivering superior visibility above and beyond traditional log-based solutions while lessening dependence on data science skills. By bringing together the leaders in security analytics and data science, RSA and Pivotal are delivering a foundation for a broader 'IT Data Lake' strategy, to help organisations control costs and enable IT to gain maximum value from the analytics and IT systems.
Analyst quote:
Jon Oltsik, Senior Principal Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
"Big data is one of the most important trends in IT, but there is still confusion around what technologies to leverage in order to derive maximum value from these disparate information sources. From an information security perspective, modern data centres produce huge amounts of data about themselves that can help improve security availability, performance and efficiency, but it's often captured in silos and tough to correlate and analyse. The foundation offered by RSA and Pivotal will be extremely valuable not only for organisations looking to bolster security capabilities, but also those considering expanding their big data strategy beyond just security."
Pivotal quote:
Todd Paoletti, Vice-President, Product Marketing, Pivotal
"When it comes to modern day security threats, data is key to stopping the bad guys. RSA is building on the big data expertise at Pivotal that lays the groundwork for a more secure computing environment. With the Big Data for Security Analytics reference architecture, organisations now have a forward-looking guide to better stop threats through the use of sophisticated data and analytic techniques."
RSA executive quote:
Grant Geyer, Vice-President, Security Analytics, RSA, The Security Division of EMC
"Last year, we broke new ground with the launch of RSA Security Analytics and this year we are taking that innovation one step further. By partnering with Pivotal, we are offering customers a new, scalable approach to analytics that goes well beyond security to benefit the full IT organisation."
Additional resources:
* Learn more: RSA-Pivotal Security Big Data Reference Architecture
* EMC Pulse blog: RSA & Pivotal: Big Data and Security Done Right
* Learn more about RSA Security Analytics
* Connect with RSA via Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn and the RSA Speaking of Security Blog and Podcast.
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