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- Highs and lows of Big Data are cited
Speakers at a conference in the U.K. touted the analytics capabilities of Big Data while also expressing concerns about its widening use, Ben Rooney writes. "The richest examples of Big Data are to understand consumer behavior and optimize your product for it. That is where the danger can lie," Splunk's Stephen Sorkin said. "... The software only finds correlations, not causations. In order to find causal relationships you have to do work." The Wall Street Journal
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Neuroscientist makes a bet on Big Data's value:
Mobile-device guru and neuroscience expert Jeff Hawkins is focused on streaming real-time data collected for predictive analysis, and likens it to how the brain functions. The co-founder of Numenta says his Grok technology will prove his theory. "It only makes sense to look at old data if you think the world doesn't change," Hawkins says. The New York Times (tiered subscription model)/Bits blog
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- Amazon Web Services aims for bigger customers
Amazon Web Services is aiming higher with its cloud-computing products, competing with old-guard tech companies including Oracle, IBM and Hewlett-Packard for big corporate customers, AWS chief Andy Jassy says. "The old world of technology has a pricing model which is to charge as much as customers can pay," he said. "Customers are tired of it." Reuters
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- Analyst: Hackers are targeting mobile networks
Hackers are finding the volume of data on mobile networks appealing to their purposes, making the networks a more attractive target than Windows PCs, says Patrick Donegan of Heavy Reading. He said at an industry conference that Long-Term Evolution wireless networks are especially vulnerable to concentrated cyberattacks. "What we have seen to date is still just early skirmishes," Donegan said. Light Reading
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- Privileged access to critical infrastructure to be protected
Security-software vendors such as Cyber-Ark are coming up with products to protect the control systems of critical infrastructure, particularly the privileged-access accounts for those systems, Taylor Armerding writes. "So many of those systems were designed to work for decades, we can't simply rotate the equipment out as we might for a desktop computer," says Jason Healey of the Atlantic Council. CSO
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- White House seeks businesses' input on cybersecurity executive order
President Barack Obama's administration has been holding meetings with business executives, technology experts and privacy advocates, seeking to gain ideas and support for a planned executive order on cybersecurity. The "listening tour" -- which officials say is an unusual precursor to an executive order -- has included sessions with representatives of critical industries, including the energy sector, that would be directly impacted by Obama's action. Politico (Washington, D.C.)
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