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In a recent audit I found that audit logs were not being archived, the team was puzzled on why I was insistence on audit logs.  Here are my thoughts  on the importance of enabling the Audit logs for the various targets in your digital ecosystem, we need the audit logs for your servers, end point devices, applications, databases, network devices, security  tools in your digital ecosystem. Many administrators disable the audit log since because they do not understand that the audit log is one of simplest & effective tools available to keep your environment safe. The audit log tracks every action undertaken in your digital ecosystem by users and unwelcome visitors (read potential hackers), the audit log records the duration of time that an user was logged in, which files were opened, what was changed and if required even the keyboard activity. To run a secure organization we need to constantly assess our vulnerability and the audit log is the key to...

"SMAC" is the a acronym for Social, mobile, analytics & cloud the four pillars of the fifth wave of technology as defined by  Cognizant Technology the  Teaneck, New Jersey headquartered ITES company (NASDAQ Symbol : CTSH). SMAC will change the customer dialogue by leveraging on the collective strength of the Social Media Network, Mobile devices, Analytics driven by Big Data solutions and Cloud Computing as the underlying backbone of affordable and reliable engine for computation.  Let us look at each of these components and their impact on our lives today: 1. Social Media - The Social Media has seen breakneck growth and significant valuation with the winners, we have the four undisputed leaders in this segment Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest  & LinkedIn with competition from Yahoo, Google and Microsoft and another hundred more social media sites of different hues and aspirations.   2. Mobility - The way we handle and process information anytime an...

It is a sad day for the runners and their friends and relatives who participated with joy in the Boston marathon only to meet with disaster at the finishing line. Analysis of the Images using Big Data Analytic's could help  in finding a pattern and help in pinning the culprits. First is creating the unstructured data of the images by collecting as many images and videos in every camera or mobile that ever captured anything before during and after the marathon run. Then comes the task on getting the best minds in the world to build the analytic engine to scan every image available to analysis the various clues that it could generate. Though it may be like finding a needle in a haystack, with today's Big Data Analytic tools there is a good probability of even identifying the eye of the needle in the haystack. Those who work in the area of Big Data Analytics' should come together and analyse  the images and also any other data that could be...