IT Security Faces Big Data Skills and Resource Gap

In the near future, IT security teams will not be complete without at least one data scientist among its ranks.

As IT security leaders try to base more of their day-to-day decisions on statistical analysis of relevant data coming from IT infrastructure and business processes, theyre running into a skills and resource gap. Often security teams have lots of specialists with deep technical knowledge of attack techniques and trends, but they frequently lack the skills to aggregate and manipulate data in order to draw meaningful conclusions from statistical trends.
As the speed and volume of security data continues to mount, so will that gap, which is why many within the industry believe that in the coming years, an IT security team will not be complete without at least one data scientist among its ranks.
In the past, it has always been us who has been behind the game, trying to catch up with the attackers techniques, says Dan Mitchell, product manager of data sciences for RSA, The Security Division of EMC. I think data science gives us the opportunity to get ahead of the attackers and have them be behind for a change.
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