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Security analytics uses data analysis - often aided by machine learning - to detect security threats and measure the effectiveness of security operations. Others deal with assessing the effectiveness of your security operations processes to help you detect inefficiencies or risks within your approach to security management.

A group of academics has designed a new system known as "Privid" that enables video analytics in a privacy-preserving manner to combat concerns with invasive tracking. "People are already worried about location privacy with GPS - video data in aggregate could capture not only your location history, but also moods, behaviors, and more at each location," Cangialosi added.

French data protection regulators on Thursday found the use of Google Analytics a breach of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation laws in the country, almost a month after a similar decision was reached in Austria. Of the data protection decree, which govern the transfers of personal data to third countries or international entities.

As networks continue to evolve and security threats get more complex, security analytics plays an increasingly critical role in securing the enterprise. By combining software, algorithms and analytic processes, security analytics helps IT and security teams proactively detect threats before they result in data loss or other harmful outcomes.

The Austrian data protection authority has ruled that use of Google Analytics by a German company is in breach of European law in light of the Schrems II EU-US data sharing ruling. Datenschutzbehörde, or DSB, has found that a German publisher, not named in the case, was in breach of Article 44 of the General Data Protection Regulation in the use and operation of Google Analytics - commonly used throughout web publishing and ecommerce - because of its movement of personal data to the United States.

Netacea announced results from a report that shows skewed analytics caused by bots cost businesses just as much as click fraud, despite click fraud's much bigger profile. Ad fraud and skewed analytics caused by bots cost businesses 4% of their revenue.

The global security analytics market is projected to grow from $12 billion in 2021 to $25.4 billion by 2026, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate of 16.2% during the forecast period, according to ResearchAndMarkets. Security analytics is a security approach that investigates security events and analyzes inconsistent behavior across networks and systems to bring situational awareness and understanding of security risks within organizations.

Zero trust architecture is not a new concept, but with the White House Executive Order published earlier this year, many in the networking space have started to ask about how network visibility analytics fits into the equation. With all the vendor confusion around what is and is not ZTA, I'd like to explore its impact on network visibility.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Hitachi Vantara's Pentaho Business Analytics software that could be abused by malicious actors to upload arbitrary data files and even execute arbitrary code on the underlying host system of the application. Pentaho is a Java-based business intelligence platform that offers data integration, analytics, online analytical processing, and mining capabilities, and counts major companies and organizations like Bell, CERN, Cipal, Logitech, Nasdaq, Telefonica, Teradata, and the National September 11 Memorial and Museum among its customers.

Microsoft has announced today that it will start anonymizing user-level info by default Microsoft 365 Usage Analytics beginning with September 1, 2021. "At Microsoft, we're committed to both data-driven insights and user privacy," said James Bell, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Microsoft 365 Product Marketing & Growth Strategy.