Security & Compliance Analysis
Increasing volume of data is changing data management and analysis
There is such an avalanche of data from numerous security and IT systems that companies are finding it nearly impossible to get a clear picture of how well they're managing security and compliance.
Figure 1. The increasing number of users, points of access, and online activities are generating very large volumes of data, making analysis of user contact nearly impossible without Skytide, which can handle very large volumes of data from all data sources.
To comply with evolving federal and industry regulations, enterprises are investing in expanded systems, information storage, time-consuming audits, and the people to manage it all. At the same time, sophisticated attacks by external parties and internal policy violations by employees result in substantial risk of downtime, remediation, liability, litigation, and damage to corporate reputation.
This puts enormous pressure on Security and Compliance officers and their staffs, who are faced with the challenge of sorting through an exponentially growing volume of event data and log files. For example, to get a complete picture of how secure their systems are, a bank needs to analyze card-swipers, web logs, intrusion detection system (IDS) logs, firewall logs, surveillance video, application logs, network access logs, call center transcripts, and banking transactions.
Analyze large volumes of diverse data to gain key insights
One can only be confident of the company's security and compliance performance if all the available data from all parts of the business are being analyzed. There is no such thing as 100% security but rather a constant move toward a more secure environment by continuously monitoring and analyzing all data and by continually introducing new analytical models in response to ever-changing security threats.
The Skytide Analytical Platform analyzes all data — structured, unstructured, and extensible — from all data sources to provide insight that security and compliance professionals need to meet their objectives.
Using the Skytide Analytical Platform for security and compliance analysis, companies can:
- Analyze patterns across multiple events to provide insight into attacks, breaches, faults and systemic problems
- Perform event correlation across numerous sources to expose insider abuse, policy violations or operational anomalies
- Analyze a series of events and identify risks associated with action or inaction
- Reduce risks through early identification of the sequences of events that may adversely effect business performance
- Identify the drivers behind key performance indicators (KPI), enabling companies to address the root cause and improve business performance while maintaining high levels of security and compliance.
Solution benefits for security & compliance management
Our unique patented technology is based on industry standards, such as Java, SOA and XML, so it can be implemented quickly and without disruption to your current systems. Skytide technology was designed with ease-of-use in mind while providing the capability to meet complex analytical needs.
- Fast Time To Analysis—Since Skytide does not require that data be normalized and imported into a proprietary repository, datamart or data warehouse, analytics can be performed in near-real time or at the user's discretion.
- Flexible, Customized Reports—Skytide allows the user to slice and dice the data as needed. It is not limited by pre-defined reports and a fixed view of the data because Skytide brings the data in at the time that the analysis is needed.
- High Value, Low Cost—Skytide delivers high-value, low-cost solutions. For example, you don't need to license a data warehouse or datamart, which can be cost-prohibitive.
- Streamline Your Analysis—You can focus on only the important data you need to satisfy your analytical requirements, significantly lowering the bandwidth and storage requirements.