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. Â Visualization does have tremendous potential to bring value to security operations when leveraged properly. Â 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. Â 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.
Patrick DiDomenico does a great job of testing out Facebook’s “Download your Information” feature and testing exactly how useful it would be as a form of electronic discovery. He concludes: According to my test, the Facebook DYI feature gathers a user’s information as it appears in their Facebook account at the time of the initiation…
Underestimated: Law Firm Data Breaches Will our digital lives leave a fossil record? Don’t Bet the Farm on Slack Space Hackers Spoofing Zoom to Obtain Credentials and Passwords – Makes sense, who can keep track of which invites are real and which aren’t? 😉 Google Announces New, Free Digital Skills Training Sessions Online Here’s Another…
Just wanted to toss out some links to some more stuff from ILTA this week. I will have another post with some thoughts about the benefits of the conference, but for right now, I have a couple of things I wanted to get out to folks. First of all, if you attended our ILTAU session…
4 Reasons To Apply For New Jobs Every Six Months– You should apply and interview for a new job every six months just out of habit. You don’t have to accept anything, but knowing what you can get on the open market is always nice.
“Engagement Largely Comes Down To Whether People Have A Manager Who Cares About Them, Grows Them And Appreciates Them” When we wonder why we’re seeing so much more job-hopping, and disengaged employees, this is clearly the biggest reason. Employees recognize that they need to grow, they need to develop their skills, and acquire new skills….
