| Note: The following blog post was migrated from the Elastica/Blue Coat website. It was first published on 7/14/2016. |
ISACA Journal published an article authored by Elastica Cloud Threat Labs on the importance of Data Science as a tool to achieve visibility, detection, and protection in the cloud.
An excerpt from the article ……...
Cloud-based applications and services continue to prove their value to enterprises, providing users with unprecedented levels of convenient access, up-to- date features, business efficiency, and collaboration capabilities. As the usage of cloud applications grows, however, so do the number and complexity of threats designed to attack such services. In this article, we discuss the benefits of using Data Science as a tool for improving cloud security by showing how it can be used to improve data visibility and in the process enhance threat detection and protection.
Sharing, collaboration, and anywhere access are the prominent features of modern cloud applications. However, cloud security faces scalability challenges. In other industries facing this same problem, Data Science techniques have proven highly successful. Examples include web search, high-speed finance, high-volume image and video processing, and even large-scale defense systems. Recently, it has also been increasingly adopted in on-premises computer and network security applications. There is no doubt that Data Science can be used as a core technology to secure and strengthen cloud applications by implementing algorithms that can detect threats through large-scale data mining.
The article is authored by Aditya K Sood and Michael Rinehart.
The digital edition is available here for download - http://www.isaca.org/Journal/archives/2016/volume-4/Pages/data-science-as-a-tool-for-cloud-security.aspx. You need to be an ISACA member.
About ISACA Journal:
The Journal provides important information on industry advancements and professional development to those involved in the IS audit, information security and governance communities. Each issue gives significant attention to a single topic, but touches on other topics of interest as well, to ensure well-rounded coverage. The ISACA Journal's more than 250,000 readers are practitioners, managers and senior executives in more than 180 countries around the world. The circulation list is a combination of association members; paid subscribers, which includes university, corporate and government libraries worldwide; and pass-alongs.
Website: http://www.isaca.org/Journal/Pages/default.aspx