I agree when Verizon's Baker says "the bad news from this year's report is that the cybercriminals and other attackers are getting better at what they do, while the security community is not improving its game quickly enough to keep pace." The bad news, as Wade Baker, principal author of the Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) series, says is that: "After analyzing 10 years of data, we realize most organizations cannot keep up with cybercrime – and the bad guys are winning." My view is that that we are now more concerned about attackers that are targeting our data flow, including data in memory since the DBIR reported that "RAM scrapers" went from a low #17 in 2012 and shoot up the charts to a very concerning #4 spot in 2013. My view is that that we are now less concerned about attackers that are targeting our stored data since the DBIR reported that "Capture stored data" went from a #4 in 2012 and to a less concerning #9 spot in 2013 and "Privilege abuse" went from a #14 in 2012 and to a less concerning #17 spot in 2013. I think that file encryption will not stop the bad guys. The bad guys are no longer attacking stored data. The bad guys are now attacking the data flow, including data in memory. My view is that we now need to secure the data flow, including data in memory. The bad guys are no longer attacking stored data. I'm increasingly concerned about Big Data and Cloud platforms, great targets for attackers. An important development was the addition of coarse-grained volume or file encryption will only solve one problem, protecting data at rest, but considering one of the primary goals is using the data, one might suggest that it provided little in the grand scheme of Data security. Sensitive data in use for analytics, traveling between nodes, sent to other systems, or even just being viewed is subject to full exposure. What they're seeking is advanced functionality equal to the task of balancing security and regulatory compliance with data insights and data utility. This balance is critical for Big Data and Cloud platforms. Emerging Big Data and Cloud platforms are presenting new use cases that are requiring data insight for analytics, high performance and scalability for Big Data platforms cannot be achieved by old security approaches. New security approaches are required since Big Data is based on a new and different architecture. Big Data is introducing a new approach to collecting data by allowing unstructured data to be blindly collected. In many cases we do not even know about all sensitive and regulated data fields that are contained in these large data feeds. Analysis of the content is often deferred to a later point in the process, to a stage when we are starting to use the data for analytics. Then it is too late to go back and try to apply data security and compliance to regulations. My view is that we now need to secure the data flow. The bad guys are no longer attacking stored data in files.

1. The Bad Guys
are Winning

2. Wade Baker, principal author of the Data Breach
Investigations Report (DBIR) series, says is that:
“After analyzing 10 years of data, we realize most
organizations cannot keep up with cybercrime – and
the bad guys are winning.”
"Attackers are getting quicker at compromising
systems over the past 10 years,"
"Less than 25 percent of good guys discovered these
incidents in days or less. This is not a good situation ...
The bad guys are winning at a faster rate than the good
guys are winning."

3. The Bad Guys
are Attacking
Your Data

4. Ram scraper [mal] 223
"RAM scrapers" went from a low #17 in 2012 and shoot
up the charts to a very concerning #4 spot in 2013.
Verizon’s 2014 Data Breach Investigations Report

5. Export data [mal] 327
“Export data" went from a low #7 in 2012 and shoot up
the charts to a very concerning #2 spot in 2013.
Verizon’s 2014 Data Breach Investigations Report

6. Capture stored data [mal] 133
“Stored data" went from a #4 in 2012 and to a less concerning
#9 spot in 2013
Verizon’s 2014 Data Breach Investigations Report

7. Privillege abuse [mis] 65
"Privilege abuse" went from a #14 in 2012 and to a less
concerning #17 spot in 2013
Verizon’s 2014 Data Breach Investigations Report

8. Capture stored data [mal] 133
My Conclusion: File Encryption is Not Helping
Verizon’s 2014 Data Breach Investigations Report
File encryption

9. Privillege abuse [mis] 65
My Conclusion: Database Monitoring will Not Help
Verizon’s 2014 Data Breach Investigations Report
Database Activity
Monitoring

10. Ram scraper [mal] 223
Export data [mal] 327
My Conclusion: Secure The Sensitive Data Flow
Verizon’s 2014 Data Breach Investigations Report
Data Tokenization
Data Tokenization

11. Attacking
Emerging
Platforms

12. Cloud and Big Data
Emerging Big Data and Cloud platforms are presenting new use cases that are requiring data
insight for analytics, high performance and scalability for Big Data platforms cannot be achieved
by old security approaches.
An important development was the addition of coarse-grained volume or file encryption will
only solve one problem, protecting data at rest, but considering one of the primary goals is
using the data, one might suggest that it provided little in the grand scheme of Data security.
Sensitive data in use for analytics, traveling between nodes, sent to other systems, or even just
being viewed is subject to full exposure.
What they’re seeking is advanced functionality equal to the task of balancing security and
regulatory compliance with data insights and data utility.
This balance is critical for Big Data and Cloud platforms.

13. Big Data
Big Data is introducing a new approach to collecting data by allowing unstructured data to be
blindly collected. In many cases we do not even know about all sensitive and regulated data
fields that are contained in these large data feeds.
Analysis of the content is often deferred to a later point in the process, to a stage when we are
starting to use the data for analytics.
New security approaches are required since Big Data is based on a new and different
architecture.
Then it is too late to go back and try to apply data security and compliance to regulations.

14. Conclusion
My view is that that we are now more concerned about attackers that are targeting
our data flow.
My view is that that we are now less concerned about attackers that are targeting our
stored data.
I think that file encryption will not stop the bad guys.
I found some good news in an interesting report from the Aberdeen Group that
revealed that "Over 12 months, data tokenization users had 50% fewer security-
related incidents (e.g., unauthorized access, data loss or data exposure than
tokenization non-users".
Nearly half of the respondents (47%) are currently using tokenization for something
other than cardholder data.
The name of the study is "Tokenization Gets Traction".