DataBee CEO on the evolving role of data in cybersecurity

Businesses face a cat-and-mouse game as they try to stay a step ahead of hackers. But accessing and analyzing key data is critical for any cybersecurity organization that's tasked with tamping down and responding to threats.

Providing and automating that critical data to the Fortune 500 crowd is a primary focus of DataBee, a unit of Comcast Technology Solutions that launched last May. The technologies and systems DataBee now offers to the enterprise market were, in fact, incubated at Comcast and the company's internal security teams.

DataBee effectively takes a data-driven approach to cybersecurity – it gathers data from sources from across the enterprise (such as logs and security tools) and ties them together into a secure data pipeline that can be studied and analyzed.

One aim is to help enterprises and their chief information security officers (CISOs) implement the controls that can prevent or react to a breach. And it's critical for those CISOs to have access to data and evidence that can prove to an auditor or a regulator that those controls are in place and working as they should, Nicole Bucala, DataBee's CEO, explained on the Light Reading Podcast.

"So, the questions that the teams have to ask are many [and] they're diverse. And to be able to answer a question correctly, you need good data," Bucala said.

Here's a snapshot of what was covered (click the closed captioning button in the player for a lightly edited transcript):