Security Analytics: Challenges and Future Directions

The frequency and type of cyber attacks are increasing day by day. However, well-known cyber security solutions are not able to cope with the increasing volume of data that is generated for providing security solutions. Therefore, current trend in research on cyber security is to apply Big Data Analytics (BDA) techniques to cyber security. This field, called security analytics (SA), can help network managers in the monitoring and surveillance of real-time network streams and real-time detection of malicious and/or suspicious patterns. Researchers believe that an SA system can assist in enhancing all traditional security mechanisms. Nonetheless, there are certain issues related to incorporating big data analytics to cyber security. This paper presents an analysis on the issues and challenges faced by Security Analytics, and further provides future directions in the field.