IT security leaders trying to base more of their day-to-day decisions on statistical analysis of relevant data coming from IT infrastructure and business processes. Security teams often lack the skills to aggregate and manipulate data in order to draw meaningful conclusions from statistical trends. In the coming years, an IT security team will not be complete without at least one data scientist among its ranks, says Dan Mitchell, product manager of data sciences for RSA, The Security Division of EMC. “I think data science gives us the opportunity to get ahead of the attackers and have them be behind for a change,” says Mitchell.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/database-security/it-security-faces-big-data-skills-and-resource-gap