Fiction #1: Security companies are equipped to handle the volume and velocity of Big Data.
Fiction #2: Security developers are easily extracting value from collected data.
Fiction #3: Analytics technology is ready-made for security.
Fiction #4: Leveraging Big Data in a security context is as simple as using it for any generalized purpose.
Fiction #5: Big Data will cause major change in the security industry within the next year.
Fiction #6: There is a widespread belief that Big Data sets offer a higher form of intelligence that can generate insights that were previously impossible.
Fiction #7: Big Data searched with dumb algorithms fails to yield what little data can yield using smarter algorithms.
Fiction #8: Most data scientists have experience with Big Data. This isn’t true because much of Big Data isn’t directly used; rather, it is summarized or “map reduced” before being analyzed, which is often not very big.