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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.

Keysight Technologies has launched the new Keysight Nemo 5G RAN Analytics software, a fully automated cloud-based solution for streamlining data processing, as well as reporting and analytics, to speed analysis of a mobile operator's 5G radio access network performance. Keysight Nemo 5G RAN Analytics software is based on a centralized, web-based data management platform for enterprise-level analytics and reporting.

Options announced its partnership with Packets2Disk to offer trade-latency monitoring and business analytics as a fully managed service. Telemetry Analytics, powered by Packets2Disk, records traffic with high fidelity packet capture technology with the power to decode and store market data and trading messages for detailed monitoring and analytics.

Dynatrace announced customers can extend Smartscape, the Dynatrace platform's real-time and continuously updated topology, to bring Dynatrace's powerful AIOps and analytics capabilities to more open-source services, including OpenTelemetry, FluentD, and Prometheus. As a result, DevOps and SRE teams can easily curate and analyze data streams from any source, at scale.