As more and more companies deploy big data technologies, including Apache Hadoop, Cassandra and other related technologies, security is becoming more critical. As big data technologies become more mainstream, it is critical that they are deployed with the same safeguards, auditing and protection capabilities inherent in existing IT platforms such as BI tools, RDBMS platforms and data storage platforms. Because of the relative new-ness of big data platforms, the security community is working rapidly to create the necessary capabilities for seamless integration into existing security frameworks. Gaps do still exist, but are rapidly being closed. These gaps demand focus by organizations as they manage risk related to security and access of corporate data assets.
Planning security for a big data solution is similar to that of other data-centric platforms deployed by many IT departments.