The story of the last decade is one of data. In 2010, the world collectively generated two zettabytes of data. In 2018, that number jumped to 33 zettabytes of data. By the end of 2019, the world will have generated, in the space of 12 months, an estimated 41 zettabytes of data. By 2025, that number will grow to 175 zettabytes generated in a single year.
Out of opportunity and necessity, this data has given rise to an entire field dedicated to mining and leveraging it for business insight and acceleration. Solutions aimed at marketing, finance, operations, and of course, IT and security, have proliferated alongside the data itself. The evolution of those technologies itself tells a story about how the world views data, and what lies ahead for the next decade.
It started with analytics. Analysis tools promised to mine burgeoning data sets for insight. As the data grew, technologies increasingly incorporated machine learning to bring greater scale to the task of transforming data into knowledge. The next frontier is automation, putting data to work to scale human capacity.
In 2019, one of the hottest topics in automation was around it’s potential for security operations – and it’s no wonder. SecOps teams are fighting a losing battle against an increasingly powerful enemy.
According to Cybersecurity Ventures, global damages from cybercrime are expected to exceed $6 trillion by 2021 – more than the global trade of all major illegal drugs combined. That’s double the $3 trillion in damages reported worldwide in 2015.
At the same time, the cybersecurity skills shortage already strains enterprise resources. According to ESG Research’s Jon Oltsik, 53 percent of organizations report “a pr ..
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