This is the opinion of Ben Bulpett, director of Enline, a company that has been identified by Oracle as a specialist in identity and access management. Bulpett spoke to Computerworld UK this week at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, where he said employee profiling and behavioural analysis will become an important element of enterprise security controls.

"The whole concept of Big Data is interesting. Organisations will want to start profiling users' log-on activity. It's about an element of risk, profiling and managing that set of users," said Bulpett.

"Companies will start collecting user data to conduct real-time risk based analyses."

Bulpett provided the example of an employee that logs on at 3am from an unknown IP address, which based on the user's past behaviour could be identified as unusual, and so an algorithm run by the company would then lock that user out.

"The younger generation of employees will drive a lot of this, remote working across multiple devices, and organisations have to be prepared. The only way you can do this is if you catch as much information as possible, profile it, and then put it through some sort of algorithm," said Bulpett.