Big data and security involves managing huge amounts of data from various sources. Some key points:
- The amount of data generated annually is expected to grow exponentially to over 6.6 zettabytes by 2016. Individual companies like Facebook generate over 400 terabytes of data per day.
- Big data comes from a variety of structured and unstructured sources, and is distributed across multiple locations and systems. Both batch-based and real-time streaming approaches are used.
- Effectively organizing, analyzing, and deriving value from large, diverse datasets requires new approaches that can handle different data types and structures from many online and offline sources.