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How Palo Alto Networks Blocks 30,000 New Pieces of Malware Daily Via AI, Machine Learning, and Big Data
Scott Stevens, SVP, Global Systems Engineering at Palo Alto Networks, discusses how the company uses AI, machine learning, and big data to find and block malware for its customers. If we’re looking at how are we dealing with malware and finding unknown malware and blocking it, we’ve been doing that for years. The platform at Palo Alto Networks uses big data analytics and machine learning in the cloud to process and find all of the unknown malware, make it known and be able to block it.
What Cities Can Learn From Their Data
The 21st century is shaping up to be the century of data. We are collecting more and better data than ever before. And the possible applications include everything from improved security and more efficient movement through public spaces to better allocation of resources and strategic planning. But, while access to this data can help improve our lives in truly meaningful ways, we are also facing new challenges about how to better collect, understand, and make use of it.
What’s The Worst That Could Happen With Huge Databases Of Facial Biometric Data?
The widespread use of facial recognition technology is almost upon us. The new iPhone is available with FaceID where you can unlock your phone with your face. Facial recognition is not new. It’s been a sci-fi staple for decades, and its practical roots are in the 1960s with Palo Alto researchers on RAND Tablets manually mapping out people’s features. Even back then we could give a computer enough data to be able to match a person to a their photograph.
WD Purple Now Shipping 6-TB Capacities to Excel in IoT “Fog” Surveillance Environments
Video surveillance is a highly data-rich application within the “Internet of Things (IoT)” ecosystem. WD Purple hard drives excel in new and existing home and small business security system environments with up to eight hard drives and up to 32 high-definition (HD) video cameras. WD Purple hard drives are being offered in capacities from 1-TB up to 6-TB.
NANA Management Services Selects HP to Deliver Next Generation Security
HP announced that NANA Management Services will use HP big data analytics software to augment its real-time video surveillance solution. NANA’s Virtual Guard Services uses an integrated approach where real-time video surveillance and highly advanced computer analytics work together to instantly identify a potential threat.
Auckland New Zealand Selects HP to Drive Groundbreaking Future Cities Initiative
Auckland Transport, Auckland’s government agency responsible for all of its transportation infrastructure and services, will deploy video analytics powered by HP IDOL on servers and storage from HP Enterprise Group and with support from HP Software Professional Services.
City of Atlanta’s MARTA Selects BRS Labs as Provider of Artificial Intelligence
Behavioral Recognition Systems, Inc. (BRS Labs), creator of AISight® the artificial intelligence-based analytics solution that teaches itself to recognize and alert on unexpected patterns within massive volumes of data, continues its rapid growth in the mass transit industry as more agencies choose to implement the award-winning behavioral recognition software as part of their public safety initiatives.
Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office Deploying 5.5PB DDN SFA Storage
With its zero-tolerance toward crime, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office has deployed a video surveillance and storage archive system with 5.5PB of DataDirect Networks, Inc., storage. As the nation’s third largest Sheriff’s office, Maricopa County, which is located in Airizona and encompasses the Phoenix metropolitan area, has between 7,500 to 10,000 inmates in its jail […]
Scapegoating Face Recognition Technology As Privacy Wormhole Doesn’t Solve Anything
Facial recognition technology is facing a blitz of negative media with wormhole-like theories that this technology results in mass surveillance, destroys anonymity, and will forever change the way people behave in public. Advocates of this theory are calling for federal privacy regulation that will give a face a right of privacy it has never had […]
Eagle Eye Networks Announces Cloud Video API That Scales To Big Data Analytics
Eagle Eye Networks, provider of a cloud managed, on-demand security and operations video management system, announced the Eagle Eye Video API, targeted at businesses and video solution developers integrating video into their applications. The Eagle Eye Video API provides a robust set of storage, analytics, indexing, and interfaces for quickly building or integrating applications with […]
Neil McDonald From Gartner Discusses How To Find A Needle In A Haystack
Needle is a bad guy and haystack is your enterprise, how do you find the needle. Neil McDonald, a big data Gartner analyst suggests that you separate the hay as you know what hay looks like and find the needle. From a security context, Neil suggests that look for meaningful deviation from normal and isolate […]
Future: The Surveillance Of Everything
Estimates vary, but by 2020 there could be more than 30 billion devices connected to the Internet. Once dumb, they will have smartened up thanks to sensors and other technologies embedded in them and, thanks to your machines, your life will quite literally have gone online. The implications are revolutionary. Your smart refrigerator will keep […]
Solink Introduces Contextual Analytics To Help Customers Use Video To “See” Big Data
Solink Corporation is pleased to announce the release of its unique event-based video discovery platform at ISC West 2014. Solink was founded to address the predominantly unstructured, undiscoverable and inaccessible nature of recorded surveillance video and make it an invaluable resource for the entire enterprise. With over 400 Petabytes being created and stored daily, recorded […]
Market Implications Of Metadata; Critical Aspect Of Video Surveillance
Understanding the Importance of Metadata in Physical Security, Surveillance and Retail Intelligence Applications. In our last post, we discussed what Meta Data is: “Data that provides information about other data.” We touched briefly on why having that kind of data could be important for the Physical Security and Surveillance industry. Today we will delve a […]
Video Surveillance Trends: 2013
IMS Research (now part of IHS Inc. (NYSE:IHS)), has recently released its fourth annual video surveillance trends for the year ahead white paper. These predictions for 2013 and beyond, serve to provide insight into key trends and opportunities in the video surveillance industry. They are: 1. New Battle Ground in Image Quality 2. Mobile Video […]
Ooyala Uses Big Data To Deliver Real Time Video Analytics
Ooyala uses Big Data to power real time video analytics for a global network of content publishers. Computing UK recently ran an article that looks at how Ooyala’s video technologies are powering new media experiences around the world. In fact, Ooyala has been focused on big data and video analytics since the beginning: Beginning in […]