Organizations attempting to implement a world-class insider threat program must ensure their focus is on prevention rather than detection, writes Haystax Technology CEO Bryan Ware in his most recent Security
A Security Analytics Approach That Does Work
So far in this series, we’ve reviewed some of the more widely deployed solutions for security analytics, and explained how and why they fail most of the time. In this
Network World: Haystax CEO Bryan Ware On Managing Insider Threats
Haystax Technology CEO Bryan Ware, a regular contributor to Network World, recently published his insights into lessons learned from the front lines of managing risk from insider threats risk management.
Three Weaknesses of Rules-Based Systems
Rules-based systems use ‘if-then’ rules to derive actions. For example, a fact that ‘Sally is 22 and unemployed’ is matched to a rule that ‘If a person is between 18
Machine Learning vs. Model-First Approaches to Analytics
Machine learning has revolutionized our world. It powers our smart phones, determines which advertisements we view and soon it will dominate the automobile industry through self-driving cars. Even Google now
Making Bayesian Networks Accessible
Bayesian Networks are among the more sophisticated capabilities applied to security analytics, relying as they do on decision science and statistics rather than software engineering expertise. But in many implementations
Most Campuses Have Security Cameras. Now What?
More than 90 percent of all school, university and hospital campuses are now equipped with video surveillance systems, and many of the remainder plan to purchase them in the near
Three Security Analytics Approaches That (Mostly) Don’t Work
Note: This is the introductory post of a five-part series assessing three common security analytics approaches that typically don’t work well. Future articles will examine each of the three in
