BalaBit Blog

In February, we visited the RSA Conference at San Francisco. This is the biggest event of the IT security industry with about 25.000 attendees, 365 exhibitors, and hundreds of sessions held by thought leadership experts. This post is focusing on a megatrend that was articulated at the conference as the key driver of our industry in the next years: Big Data Security. Let me summarize my thoughts on BDS and its relationship with BalaBit technologies. Big Data Security – another buzzword or something more?Perhaps, we all feel the same when we hear “Big data” security: it is a very generic phrase - IT security experts, vendors, providers, etc. have various interpretation of what it really means in real-life business scenarios. We also have our own BDS interpretation and we believe that we can help companies to meet at least two BDS challenges:I.) Protect the sensitive part of your Big Data!In our interpretation, you should focus on securing databases that really matter to you - strongly protect those, leave others alone! Fully protecting all data at a company is impossible due to budget and other resource constraints. So you need to evaluate the risks related to your data assets, prioritize these risks and focus only those that might be interesting from a cyber-attacker point of view. Consequently, you need to build strong walls only in front of systems (applications, databases, processes, etc.) that contain your most sensitive data.How can we support you to protect your Big Data? ... [Read More]