With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), more and more of our devices are connected to the network, making it possible to amass data and analyze it for patterns and trends. In this way big data is becoming more of a resource for virtually every industry including security, where video captured by cameras can now be more easily stored and analyzed by software. However, this new technology has taken hold so quickly that some organizations are now sitting with immense quantities of raw data without the knowledge of how to best use it. Since big data is only going to get bigger, security professionals need to understand the best ways that they can put it to use.
