Ed Bailey, Principle Technical Evangelist - Cribl

State and local cybersecurity organizations face the challenge of aggressive threat actors and rapidly growing data volumes without their budgets growing simultaneously. Security and IT teams also work with limited staffing, so every decision and project has to be focused on efficiency. Leaders know that nothing can be wasted, so organizations must spend time creating sustainable strategies to help guide downstream decision making so that every decision is aligned with a common goal. Defining and implementing a comprehensive security and observability data strategy is critical to creating and maintaining a sustainable organization wide monitoring and security posture.

In this session, attendees will learn:

• What is a data strategy, and why is it important?
• Why you get started by understanding your business strategy
• How to define your technical goals
• Define your end state data strategy
• Walk through a scenario to show the value of a high-quality data strategy

Ed Bailey is a passionate engineering advocate with more than 20 years of experience in instrumenting a wide variety of applications, operating systems, and hardware for operations and security observability. He has spent his career working to empower users with the ability to understand their technical environment and quickly make the correct data-backed decisions. At the same time, he has worked with business leaders to balance economic efficiency with the right mix of technical capabilities to meet current and future requirements.