The Cloud-y Future of Security Technologies

With a healthy dose of technologies and techniques borrowed from big-data companies such as Google and Facebook, engineers in the security industry have led a sea change in how security products are designed and implemented. Rather than rely upon ad hoc threat detection networks and loose partnerships with other security firms to detect new threats, security firms are moving to cloud-based product models, where threat information for malicious network traffic, malware, and various forms of attacks is centrally aggregated and processed from endpoints. Large teams of analysts-focused manual identification of threats are now being displaced by data mining and machine learning, pushing the effective time to live of an attack from weeks to hours. In this talk I will show you how it's been done.