A White House advisory board today began planning a study of how “big data” analytics could be used to address cybersecurity and other national security and emergency preparedness (NS/EP) challenges.  The National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee will form a scoping committee to determine the boundaries of its work.  “It is a potentially boundless topic,” noted Scott Charney, a committee member and corporate vice president at Microsoft Corp.’s Trustworthy Computing Group.

Mr. Charney suggested that the scoping committee come up with a “handful of scenarios” related to NS/EP and determine how big data might apply in those situations.  “If we don’t do this in a very phased way, we might find it very hard to make any recommendations,” he said.

Lisa Hook, president and chief executive of Neustar, Inc., was tentatively chosen to chair the scoping committee, which will be formed at the next NSTAC meeting scheduled for May 6 in Washington. – Tom Leithauser, tom.leithauser@wolterskluwer.com

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