There has been a data explosion within security teams, as organisations everywhere seek to increase their effectiveness in preventing breaches of defences through improved correlation and data sharing. You have probably seen this happening within your own working environment, too.

In the quest to achieve this sought-after level of ‘good enough’ security, the findings of new research from the Enterprise Strategy Group, ‘Big Data Intersection with Security Analytics’, partially sponsored by Symantec, are encouraging.

You won’t be too surprised to hear that, in our ‘Big Data’ world, we are collecting a lot more data than we used to two years ago. There is only one direction in which that arrow is going to be pointing from now on. What is interesting here, though, is that lots of people are vested in this information to do their job – and that is likely to envelop even more people, across a wide range of roles over the next...

Cyberspace presents an incredible amount of opportunity for today’s organisations. Connectivity, innovation, productivity and collaboration are just some of the benefits on offer. However, cyberspace presents equally significant risks. Those risks can have huge impact and visibility; it seems that a week cannot go by without another cyber incident being splashed across internet feeds, newspapers and websites. This visibility means that cyber risks have the attention of the executive management of every organisation.

Cyber risks include targeted attacks, advanced persistent threats, data loss, denial-of-service attacks, hackitivism, negligent and malicious insiders, reputational damage, cyber espionage and nation state threats. In 2011, Symantec blocked over 5.5 billion malware attacks, an 81% increase over the previous year, witnessed a 36% increased in web based attacks and an increased focus and intensity of advanced persistent...

Join Symantec and Washington University at the St. Louis Symantec $25k Cyber Security Challenge. This one-of-a-kind event invites security professionals and ethical hackers like yourself to help further improve current security technologies and solutions.

Come learn about the current global threat landscape and IT trends requiring organizations to take new approaches in security – cloud, mobility, compliance, etc.

Stay for the "Challenge", an exciting cyber "Capture the Flag" (CTF) simulation. Take part for a chance to win cash and prizes! And don't miss the Hands-On Security Demo Lab that will showcase current security solutions around mobile, data loss, encryption, email and web security and more.

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If any new recuirements come to the picture it must be reviwed. I have SSIM in my organisation implemented before few years rules was as it is. Now security purpose and engineering approch needed to update it. so accordingly older rules must be updated, and if necessary it must be added new once for provideing better services.