Key aspects to consider Key solution requirements Magnitude and frequency of updates: Certain data sources, such as financial transactions and network data, have extremely large data volumes and frequent updates Diversity of data: Security organizations deal with a wide variety of data types and formats: + Structured: e.g., government databases, financial transactions + Semi-structured: e.g., Emails, police or intelligence reports with freeform text + Unstructured: e.g., images, videos, audio files, text documents The ability to scale to exponential big data volumes and continuously provide the most up-to-date data + The capability to store, fuse, and analyze all types of data, including structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. An estimated 80% of new data generated is unstructured + Analytical engines (such as text, image, video and audio analytics, as well as speech-to-text transcription, translation and face recognition) to process raw data and generate meaningful information for investigations A Practical Guide to Adopting a Digital Intelligence Solution 8