Some of the more annoying short-term issues will be around collecting, normalizing, and sharing security data in a multitude of formats, schemas, and syntaxes. Large public sector and commercial organizations are already experimenting with technologies like Hadoop, Splunk, and PacketPig to bring the security and big data analytics world together. The security industry should get behind the Interface for Metadata Access Points (IF-MAP) standard introduced by the Trusted Network Connect sub-group in 2008.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2223897/could-if-map-accelerate-big-data-security-analytics-.html