Security appliances wrestle with blanket coverage To someone responsible for the network security of an SMB (small to midsize business), a one-box solution that handles every enterprise security function is a hot commodity. Naturally, the all-in-one security appliance aims to provide the required level of effectiveness without the complexity and expense of layered security products and dedicated staff. And that’s a hugely attractive prospect in today’s Wild Wild Web, where worm infections, Trojan horse invasions, and exploits of security holes are constant threats. [via InfoWorld: Security]
It’s a new expression I haven’t heard before. ‘Civilisational data mining.’
Let me start by putting it in some context. Every character, you or I have typed into the Google search engine or Facebook over the last decade, means something, to someone or perhaps ‘something,’ if it’s an algorithm.
In May 2014, journalists revealed that the United States National Security Agency, the NSA, was recording and archiving every single cell-phone conversation that took place in the Bahamas. In the process they managed to transform a significant proportion of a society’s day to day interactions into unstructured data; valuable information which can of course be analysed, correlated and transformed for whatever purpose the intelligence agency deems fit.
And today, I read that a GOP-hired data company in the United States has ‘leaked’ personal information, preferences and voting intentions on… wait for it… 198 million US citizens.
Within another decade or so, the cost of sequencing the human genome …
Let me start by putting it in some context. Every character, you or I have typed into the Google search engine or Facebook over the last decade, means something, to someone or perhaps ‘something,’ if it’s an algorithm.
In May 2014, journalists revealed that the United States National Security Agency, the NSA, was recording and archiving every single cell-phone conversation that took place in the Bahamas. In the process they managed to transform a significant proportion of a society’s day to day interactions into unstructured data; valuable information which can of course be analysed, correlated and transformed for whatever purpose the intelligence agency deems fit.
And today, I read that a GOP-hired data company in the United States has ‘leaked’ personal information, preferences and voting intentions on… wait for it… 198 million US citizens.
Within another decade or so, the cost of sequencing the human genome …
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