by Fuel HQ

Fuel User Group's first ever Spark User Summit is only days away from taking place on 12 May in London, UK. 

Here are examples of sessions attendees will experience:

by Matt Keil

One of my roles in the company is to participate in our regular new hire training, and in our last session, I was asked a question that I had never been asked before. The question was “what is the coolest feature in our product that not everyone knows about?” While there are many, many very cool features in our product, without hesitation I told them that it is a combination of three features that allow customers to collect external data and use it to automate firewall deployment and policy updates.

Let me explain.

by Joerg Sieber

Most companies have it deployed somewhere in their networks. It is most often thought off as a productivity tool to stop employees from wasting time with social media, shopping, porn, gambling, or many other sites during working hours: URL Filtering. 

by Joerg Sieber

How do you eat an elephant?”

“One bite at a time!”

Remember the old saying? It holds true. But what if the elephant grows every time you take a bite, as is the case in today’s IT and security world?

Every time a data analyst takes a bite out of big data, more data appears, resulting in complete overload of information to the point where analysis paralysis sets in. Data from network operations, data from your firewalls, data from your mobile security solution, data from endpoints… it all keeps streaming in. Security professionals today are dealing with a world where data literally clogs up the analysis pipeline, making it useless beyond belief. According to Goldman Sachs, 90 percent of the world’s data has been created in the last two years. And the influx of data is not slowing down any time soon.