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. [...] ______________________________________________ Visit the InfoSec News Security Bookstore Best Selling Security Books and More! http://www.shopinfosecnews.orgReceived on Sun Nov 11 2012 - 22:14:07 PST
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