In my experience, and in the experience of many others as well, unfocused attempts at visualization over raw, unreduced data produce visualizations that are not particularly useful for security operations. Visualization does have tremendous potential to bring value to security operations when leveraged properly. Performing data reduction by posing specific, targeted, incisive queries into the data provides a good starting point for producing visualizations of high value to security operations. Get the picture?
The same is true for eDiscovery data. I’ve seen many a user go straight to a visualization of email connections, for example, over their entire dataset, and then dismiss the use of visualizations because there’s nothing useful in it. Which, of course, there isn’t. You need to define what kinds of connections you’re looking for (Over a date range, to/from one particular custodian of interest, etc.) before you start looking at the pictures that are going to show them to you.
Contrary to their claims, it seems like the company is willing to let anyone use their facial recognition search tool, and they seem unable to keep their own data safe. That’s not a good look. Read the whole thing, and prepare to be shocked, shocked I tell you, that a company willing to grab millions,…
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The thing that bugs me the most about this situation is not the argument about what Apple should or shouldn’t be required to do, it’s the number of politicians who feel the need to pipe in on behalf of the government, who clearly have no idea how encryption works. The whole point of encrypting data…
This is true, there’s no reason for people to be stuck only reading what social media decides they would like to read. Alas, too many of us are not actually interested in doing anything more than knowing what our social networks decide is important. “But anyone weary of black-box algorithms controlling what you see online…
Sure, I get why Google would make certain features available in Chrome and try to protect it’s users from phishing, browser highjacking, and drive by download attempts. But one of the security features also assures that I have to keep some other browser available on any machine. When staying at a hotel or other place…
“For example, Schneier and other experts testified that the same poor security exists in computers making their way into hospitals, including those used to manage elevators and ventilation systems. It’s not hard to imagine a fatal disaster, which makes it imperative that the government step in to fix this “market failure,” he said. The problems…