Preface

Today, many organizations are implementing Hadoop in production environments. As organizations embark on the Big Data implementation journey, security of Big Data is one of the major concerns. Securing sensitive data is one of the top priorities for organizations. Enterprise security teams are worried about integrating Hadoop security with enterprise systems. Securing Hadoop provides a detailed implementation and best practices for securing a Hadoop-based Big Data platform. It covers the fundamentals behind Kerberos security and Hadoop security design, and then details the approach for securing Hadoop and its ecosystem components within an enterprise context. The goal of this book is to take an end-to-end enterprise view on Big Data security by looking at the Big Data security reference architecture, and detailing how the various building blocks required by an organization can be put together to establish a secure Big Data platform.