Cyber Security Threats to Open Government Data and Effective Solutions
Explore the growing cyber security threats faced by open government data initiatives, including the risks highlighted by the US Department of Defense. Learn from a case study of an undisclosed government organization's challenges and the successful implementation of a real-time network defense system by SAS to combat cyber threats effectively.
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Cyber Security threats to Open Government Data Vishal Marria April 2014
The Govt Cyber threat Landscape : Be Afraid The US Department of Defense detected 300 Million network penetration attempts last year, up from 6 million in Yr. 2000 The US Govt Accountability Office found in its survey that 23 of the 24 agencies surveyed did not have computer security protections in place Govt computer networks are constantly bombarded with cyber threats from sources around the world It is evidenced that, Govt departments sharing open data attracts more global attention on cyber threats The analytics approach to Cyber security .
Case Study: Undisclosed Govt Organization Situation: A government organization needed to coordinate and monitor the defense of its vast global networks 90 percent of the alerts were of a probing nature that did not require immediate action, a lot of valuable time was wasted on unnecessary investigations In addition, many network monitors produced huge volumes of data in different formats, and the dept did not have any way of doing historical analysis of data visualization on this massive threat data
Case Study: The challenge The organization asked SAS, Can you Give us a real-time network defense system that automatically generates attack alerts when threat response actions are required, while also dramatically reducing the number of false positives? Pinpoint anomalous properties of network traffic, which would normally go undetected, as well as uncover hidden relationships and behavior patterns Aggregate, correlate and merge data from all our network monitoring devices and any other data sources so we could achieve complete network domain awareness
Case Study: The solution SAS developed a hybrid cyber security defense mechanism due to the global nature of access to the govt organization s web channels
Case Study: The results Potential threats were recognized sooner than ever before Analysts were able to investigate incidents on a network view of data at greater speed Billions of rows, rapidly explored in seconds . Scalability to handle growing volumes of data Critical pain point of Alert Prioritization achieved
