Cloud Computing: Fortscale and the Enemy Inside

February 13, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from VirtualizationReview. Author: Dan Kusnetzky.

Fortscale’s Idan Tendler, CEO and co-founder, came by to discuss what his company has been doing since our last conversation at the Splunk user group conference roughly a year ago. Each time I have the opportunity to speak with him, I learn something more about how analysis of the organization’s operational and machine logs can help.

This time Tendler pointed out that many of today’s security breaches or thefts of customer data can be attributed either to malicious staff behavior, or staff not following the enterprise’s data governance or security policies. Staffers are typically given access to many of the organization’s data assets…

They’re trusted to use them appropriately and follow the organization’s guidelines and policies. Unfortunately, a few take advantage of the access granted them to gather data either for their own benefit or to sell to others…

Read more from the source @ http://virtualizationreview.com/articles/2015/02/12/fortscale-and-predictive-analysis.aspx