[HIB]Explosion of data driving information security industry

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In ArcSight’s Silicon Valley office, Rick Caccia, the infosec firm’s vice president of product marketing, tells Infosecurity’s editor, Eleanor Dallaway, that in addition to the constant tide of cybercrime, it’s huge amounts of data that are driving this industry.Cybercrime, which Caccia believes will “always exist”, keeps the industry healthy and profitable. “That, and the explosion of data. The problem is about big data as much as security. We’ll [the information security industry] always be trying to catch up with the bad guys”. One of the problems, Caccia said, “is that we’re trying to layer on defense after we’ve built the cyberworld”.Dr Prescott Winter, ex-CTO of NSA, joined ArcSight in March 2010 as their CTO. He, alongside the rest of his colleagues at ArcSight, is in the business of reducing cybercrime, which ArcSight categorise into four problems.

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