Cybercom’s Rogers: China’s massive 2015 attack points to Big Data analysis as new espionage trend

Special to WorldTribune.com

Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon

China’s theft of millions of records on Americans was part of a Big Data spying program conducted by Beijing that has prompted the Pentagon to take new steps to secure large data concentrations.

Adm. Mike Rogers / Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP
Adm. Mike Rogers / Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP

That was the assessment of U.S. Cyber Command commander Adm. Mike Rogers who … called the compromise of 22 million records from the Office of Personnel Management, as well as millions of heath care records in an earlier attack disclosed last year, a new form of cyber spying. …

Analyzing large data repositories is a new trend in cyber espionage, Rogers says. “If you go back five, ten years ago, I remember discussions where we thought there is just so much data here, no one could put it all together,” Rogers said. “Its very size makes it very difficult for an adversary to generate knowledge or understanding out of. And yet you look at the power of big data analytics now, whether that be in the private sector helping to understand patterns of behavior to generate tailored advertising, whether you look at it from an intelligence perspective, where you use the power of big data analytics to try to understand large masses of data to look for the analytic trends that help us understand what’s going on.”

The ability to analyze Big Data tranches is now available with refined software, a development that has made the targeting of databases increasingly attractive to nation states like China.

SEE COMPLETE TEXT

Please follow and like us:

You must be logged in to post a comment Login