BrandPost: How to Secure Big Data Environments with Identity Management and Auditing

Many organizations are deploying Hadoop to help launch their big data projects. Unfortunately, Hadoop runs in non-secure mode by default, which means sensitive data is at risk of both internal and external threats. Given the value of data in Hadoop, it’s critical that organizations secure their big data deployments before moving them into production.As part of that effort, organizations should strictly control user access to nodes in a Hadoop cluster. At the same time, however, they also n