1. Big Data
and
Security Intelligence
Bay Area's Big Data Think Tank - December 2012
Raffael Marty
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2. Doushuai's Three Barriers
‘You make your way through the darkness of abandoned grasses in a
search for meaning. As you do, where is the meaning?'
47th case of'The Gateless Barrier'
a collection of Zen koans

3. Outline
security is getting harder
we need new approaches
viz seems interesting
data mining can help
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4. Some Security Challenges
‣security expertise
‣understanding data
‣communicating security
‣everyone is compromised
‣constantly changing
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5. Solution?
‣ security expertise ‣ collaboration
‣ understanding data ‣ visual exploration, context
‣ communicating security ‣ visual representations
visibility anddata visibility,
‣ everyone is compromised ‣ complete
understanding
machine augmented analysis
‣ constantly changing ‣ quick learning cycles
adaptive solution
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6. visibility, you mean
visualization?
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7. Why Visualization?
the data... the stats ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe%27s_quartet
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8. Can We Do Without Viz?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe%27s_quartet
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9. Why Visualization?
‣Highest bandwidth to interact with humans
‣Put the human in the loop:
‣pattern detection
we need to enable humans
‣remembers context
to solve problems
‣fantastic intuition
‣can predict
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