Big Data As Tool To Both Prevent And Investigate Breach

That you can put a library in your pocket or bring up ten years of research while sitting at the beach is amazing, and convenient, but it’s also symptom and example of a huge problem: There’s more and more data, and it’s scattered all over the place. That’s part of why compliance with the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which goes into effect next year, will be very difficult for many companies. The GDPR will require a report, usually within three days, of any breach that involves private data of EU citizens. “Easier said than done,” observes Stuart Clarke, CTO Cyber Solutions at Nuix, but he explains how using big data techniques can make a breach both less likely to happen and easier to investigate and report on if it does happen, by enabling the company to “quickly uncover and act on the key facts, events and identities hidden among masses of digital evidence.”