U.S: Big Data Tools on the Rise

U.S: Big Data Tools on the Rise

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21914214_m featureU.S Government IT leaders believe continuous monitoring and advanced analytics can help agencies better understand their networks and security.

According to Information Week the new report — based on conversations with 18 federal government IT leaders with expertise in big data, cybersecurity, and operations — found that agencies are exploring the opportunities and threats emerging at the intersection of their big data and cybersecurity initiatives.

Experts from agencies including the Government Accountability Office (GAO), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), General Services Administration (GSA), and NASA, discussed the emerging interplay between these two disciplines and other trends in a study conducted by MeriTalk, underwritten by Northrop Grumman.

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According to the report, continuous monitoring and advanced analytics can help agencies gain “unprecedented understanding of their networks and security posture.” As big data and security infrastructures evolve, agencies will require dashboards that can aggregate input from different analytical tools.

“The technology that enables large-scale data analytics is rapidly evolving and still relatively expensive. Successive waves of hardware and software innovation in this space will drive out complexity and cost over time,” Joseph Hungate, principal deputy inspector general of the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, said in the report.

Down the road, “intelligent analytics” — an engine that can ask and answer inquiries and issue alerts without requiring human input — could act in lieu of highly trained data scientists, some government executives predicted. Most agencies today report that they don’t have analytics engines that can interact with data and alert of impending danger at the same level as human scientists.