The role of analytics in security operation

Log management and monitoring of network activity are important security operation from a business perspective. These activities also range from daily simple individual log files to security information and event management systems. But, nowadays, monitoring is expanding to include more data which are analyzed continuously. Real time alerting and daily reports on emerging threats and vulnerabilities are also very important to detect and respond to security events. Data analytics look at behavior across and between all monitored devices and people. Read more at - http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/adventuresinsecurity/continuous-monitoring-extended-to-big-data-analytics-70597