Harnessing The Power Of Metadata For Security

As enterprises battle to keep pace with online traffic growth by throttling up network speeds, they are beginning to lose the war on cyber crime. Why? Because security tools are limited in how much traffic they can intelligently process. Further, these same security devices need to take on increasingly sophisticated functions to combat evermore advanced and persistent cyber attacks. As a consequence, many existing security applications will be rendered ineffective in the very near future.

Metadata is data about data or put another way, a kind of summary or high-level view of data. By providing security tools with summary takes of the packet data traversing networks, metadata can become a powerful weapon for enterprises looking to separate signals from noise, reduce time to threat detection, and improve overall security efficacy.