The threats of cyber attacks are growing increasingly challenging as a result of the increasing complexity of the enterprise network. With increased connectedness come more serious types of attacks, as breached systems are taken over and used as the launch point behind the firewall for insidious behaviors such as data exfiltration or ransomware attacks. More …Read More
Using Automation to Supplement Agility
There is always excitement around the opportunities related to adopting a modified or a new system development methodology. However, one of the biggest challenges is that despite the promise of improving the manner in which the application design and development phases proceed, the focus remains on satisfying functional requirements while largely ignoring the data requirements. …Read More
Maturing the Big Data Analytics Paradigm
Within the past 9 to 12 months, the hoopla over “big data” platforms has begun to yield to greater distinction among the various uses of these platforms to achieve particular business objectives. Instead of generically talking about big data (and, by that, referring specifically to Hadoop), more people are beginning to examine the anticipated outcomes …Read More
Enhancing Data Discovery Using Streamed Event Data
The use of the term “data discovery” to describe interactive analyses involving data pulled from multiple sources reflects the unfolding reality that end-user data analysts are not only seeking greater control over the use of data, they are rapidly expecting immediate access to data to drive the intuitive processes that lead to actionable insight. And …Read More
Leveraging Big Data Techniques for Big Data Quality
The orders of magnitude scaling of data volumes for “big data” applications has many different types of data quality practitioners figuratively salivating at the potential opportunities for applying their favorite data quality techniques. First, for some practitioners, there is the perception that in a big data environment, “lots of data” means “lots of errors,” which …Read More