The challenge of both VDI and public cloud is that they are disruptive. To the end-users and management, that disruption must be justified.

Recognized Big Data security solutions can only examine data that administrators and engineers have programmed them to identify. They cannot, on their own, choose to browse data sets that they "think" might yield information, nor can they detect information about risky user behaviors that hasn't been captured.

Many highly security-conscious organizations outside the Fed seem to equate continuous monitoring with “buy more live sensors.”

Despite the billions of dollars spent annually by government and private industry to protect their networks and critical data assets, the large majority of breaches can be tied directly to human error and/or a breakdown in protocol.