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eWEEK VIDEO: Rohit Ghai, President of RSA Security, outlines the intersection of identity, risk and trust and how his firm is bringing them together to help improve security outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article informs that Security firm Netsurion is launching its first new services, new SIEM-at-the-Edge and Breach Detection Services, since acquiring security information and event management (SIEM) vendor EventTracker in October 2016. It is noted that the new services would expand Netsurion's product portfolio bringing advanced threat detection and mitigation capabilities to small businesses and branch offices.

The article focuses on the concern shown by the U.S. President Barack Obama for the increasing data security issues. Topics discussed include declared nation's digital infrastructure as the strategic national assets, threat on nation's data security due to outside hackers, crime syndicates and untrusted insiders and signing of an executive order asking the IT sector to join with the federal government and military for renewing efforts to strengthen data security by sharing security information.

The article offers brief information on a software released by Exabeam which will enable enterprises to use full potential of their previous security information and event management (SIEM) deployments, launched at the Splunk .conf2014 conference on October 6, 2014.

The article reports that the independent researcher Alexandre Pinto will propose the use of machine learning to leverage network defense at the forthcoming Black Hat conference to be held in Las Vegas, Nevada in July 2013. It states that he plans to discuss how to use machine-learning algorithms to help establishments get more value from their security log data. Pinto mentions that the conference is about a model he developed to help determine not potential behavior from log data.