Data-Driven Security Unleashed: The Information Security Practitioner’s Guide to Better Security

Leading IT analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) will be releasing new research from its data-driven security series, entitled Data-Driven Security Unleashed (DDSU). In this latest iteration, EMA gathers insight from managers and operations personnel responsible for some aspect of information security.  The tools they deploy to gather and utilize data to prevent, detect, and respond to security issues is examined.  The need for more and variant sources of data are changing the speed and methods in which they are able to manage each of these functions.

Join David Monahan, research director of security and risk management at EMA, to get highlights of key findings that were identified in the areas of SIEM, security analytics, endpoint threat detection and response. In addition to these findings, 15 other classes of security tools, including new comer deception technology, will be discussed, along with:

• Rankings of 18 different tools categories with their respective deployment and satisfaction within the respondent groups  

• Top use cases for various tools

• Which tool capabilities had greatest overall impact on

• Gaining better context about incidents
• Accelerating incident response
• Accelerating breach detection
• Accelerating detection of malicious threat actors

This data will aid the IT/security practitioner in making tough choices about which technologies their peers find useful for solving their information security problems.