Leveraging Big Data approaches to security can help make the much-needed intelligence-driven security model – comprised of pervasive monitoring and threat intelligence sharing – a reality for organizations that face growing and sophisticated cyber-attacks. In his opening keynote at RSA Conference Asia Pacific 2013, Art Coviello, Executive Vice President of EMC Corporation and Executive Chairman of RSA, The Security Division of EMC, outlined how leveraging Big Data approaches to security can help make the much-needed intelligence-driven security model a reality for organizations in the face of growing and sophisticated cyber-attacks. While addressing the crowd at RSA Conference Asia-Pacific held in Singapore, Coviello explained that within many organizations, a lack of understanding and knowledge and unbalanced security budgets are current impediments to the adoption of an intelligence-driven security model.