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RSA Teams with Pivotal to Offer Security Analytics and Big Data Playbook
February 2014 by Marc Jacob
RSA, The Security Division of EMC announced the availability of a new reference architecture created with Pivotal to help organizations 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 organizations 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 organizations to gain maximum value from IT systems.
Additionally, the new reference architecture showcases how the technologies from both companies can work together to help organizations 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 lifecycle to its archival and retirement, to spot anomalies and reveal indicators of attack and compromise.
· Actionable intelligence through data visualization, feeds of suspicious activity, and prioritization 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 organizations control costs and enable IT to gain maximum value from the analytics and IT Systems.
