Real Time Threat Response: Why It Is Critical

Real time is now!  Not thirty minutes, not one hour.

This kind of instantaneous information availability is a critical asset in security information monitoring and responsiveness.  While a web analytics or a BI (Business Intelligence) application can live with historical trends and reporting, security responsiveness needs to be trigger sharp. You don’t expect your security guards to wait for a twice-a-day break-in report before taking action do you? Unfortunately this is what many security applications do. From a security perspective, historical reporting and trend analysis is post mortem work that is beneficial for audit and compliance reporting and for forensic explorations of ‘what went wrong’.