Analytics From A to Z

Analytics became one of the big security buzzwords of 2016, with seemingly every vendor adding some form of analytics capabilities to their security offerings. Security experts said they expect to see more vendors leveraging analytics, from behavioral to data, more deeply throughout their offerings. However, as analytics permeates security, experts said they also expect strong analytical capabilities to be table stakes in security, which could prove to be a problem – or an impetus for acquisition -- in 2017 and beyond for pure-play stand-alone security analytics companies.