NSA Submits Open Source, Secure Database To Apache

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/enterprise-apps/231600835

By J. Nicholas Hoover
InformationWeek
September 06, 2011

The National Security Agency is moving to open source a secure database 
technology, Accumulo, that it has been developing internally since 2008.

The spy agency over the weekend submitted the project, constructed of 
about 200,000 lines of mostly Java code, to the Apache Foundation for 
incubation.

Fine-grained access control is the primary feature of Accumulo that 
differs from other similar databases. Accumulo includes cell-level 
security, which would allow organizations making use of it to let users 
access only particular fields of the database.

In its submission to the Apache Foundation, the NSA said that it expects 
that verticals that have a keen interest in privacy, such as the 
government and healthcare providers, may find the most use for Accumulo. 
Other features include a storage format that improves compression.

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