Government security workers have a big data problem

Government security workers are struggling with big data.

As they try to protect their networks and valuable data assets from an evolving and varied group of malicious actors, public-sector security workers say their efforts are slowed by an incomplete picture of their infrastructure, and that they often only detect threats after they have been inside the enterprise for some time.

Those are among the new findings of a study from the government IT consortium MeriTalk, underwritten by Splunk, a vendor that provides big-data analytics security technology.

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