How to Secure Big Data in Hadoop

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http://www.cio.com/article/721077/How_to_Secure_Big_Data_in_Hadoop

By Thor Olavsrud
CIO
November 08, 2012

Big data promises to help organizations better understand their 
businesses, their customers and their environments to a degree that you 
could previously have only imagined.

The potential is enormous—as businesses transform into data-driven 
machines, the data held by your enterprise is likely to become the key 
to your competitive advantage. As a result, security for both your data 
and your infrastructure becomes more important than ever before.


Big Data Could Be Toxic Data If Lost

In the case of data that provides a competitive advantage, the need for 
security should be obvious. If you lose that data, or it winds up in the 
hands of a competitor, your advantage is lost. But worse, it could 
become a liability.

In many cases, organizations will wind up with what Forrester Research 
calls "toxic data." For instance, imagine a wireless company that is 
collecting machine data—who's logged onto which towers, how long they're 
online, how much data they're using, whether they're moving or staying 
still—that can be used to provide insight to user behavior.

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