Neutralize data breaches: a new breed of cyber attacks—advanced malware, exploitation networks, and motivated insiders—are stealing sensitive data from vulnerable ecosystems. But companies can neutralize data breaches by rendering the data valueless, de-identifying data through encryption, tokenization, and data masking.

By 2017, Big Data Technology will be the norm for data management.

The recently-publicized data breaches are indeed a wake-up call. While the risks have been there all along and baseline control programs have largely been in place, it is now clear that we must do more to protect our customers, our systems and our companies.

Large organizations worldwide are working to develop and deploy Big Data analytical facilities alongside their established business intelligence infrastructure. These initiatives are motivated in nearly equal parts by the conviction that new business insights and opportunities are buried in the avalanche of new data, by the knowledge that conventional business intelligence systems are unequal to the task, and by the fear that competitors will be first to master and exploit the available new data streams.