In recent years, organizations of all sizes have been collecting increasing volumes of traffic and application telemetry data from different devices, logs, and services. Much of it is leveraged to inform operational and strategic decisions. However, this same data also has the potential to significantly strengthen an organization’s security posture—but only if it’s processed and used effectively.
To strengthen cybersecurity, there is plenty of data that organizations can and do collect to understand what’s happening inside their environments. It comes from log files, system events, network traffic, applications, threat detection systems, intelligence feeds, and myriad other sources. However, the sheer volume of this data can pose a significant challenge as organizations look to extract value from what they’re gathering to inform security policy, threat detection and risk mitigation.
