Security News > 2020 > May > Long Tail Analysis: A New Hope in the Cybercrime Battle

The term long tail first emerged in 2004, created by WIRED editor-in-chief Chris Anderson to describe "The new marketplace." His theory is that our culture and economy are increasingly shifting away from a focus on a relatively small number of "Hits" at the head of the demand curve and toward a huge number of niches in the tail.

You determine how to aggregate the events in a way that provides enough meaning for analysis.

You might be particularly interested in the objects that fall within that long tail.

There are new, machine learning-based technologies that use integrated reasoning to automate long-tail analysis.

As the market matures and this capability becomes available, long-tail analysis will super-charge your cybersecurity efforts.

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https://threatpost.com/long-tail-analysis-hope-cybercrime-battle/155992/