Wednesday 7 December 2011

Sifting through petabytes PRODIGAL monitoring for lone wolf insider threats

Security researchers for DARPA are developing a Big Data Analytics system to sift through mindbogglingly massive datasets, terabytes and petabytes, to spot lone wolf insider threats to the government.

About a quarter billion daily IMs, texts, emails, and other digital records will be analyzed by PRODIGAL over long periods of time to find the employees who "may not realize they are going down the slippery slope," to tackle and solve insider threat

Source:
http://blogs.computerworld.com/19382/sifting_through_petabytes_prodigal_monitoring_for_lone_wolf_insider_threats

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