Security teams collect a heck of a lot of data today.  ESG research indicates that 38% of organizations collect, process, and analyze more than 10 terabytes of data as part of security operations each month.  What types of data?  The research indicates that the biggest data sources include firewall logs, log data from other types of security devices, log data from networking devices, data generated by AV tools, user activity logs, application logs, etc. It’s also worth mentioning that the amount of security data collected continues to grow on an annual basis.  In fact, 28% of organizations say they collect, process, and analyze substantially more data today than two years ago, while another 49% of organizations collect, process, and analyze somewhat more data today than two years ago.

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