Securing your Big Data in Hadoop: Strategies & Best Practices

Apache Hadoop has found itself at the Core of Enterprise Computing in the recent years. As many corporations move their core business operations to Big-Data systems based on Hadoop for analyzing/processing the data, security becomes one of the critical factors in their technology selection process. Since Apache Hadoop platform has numerous (open-source) toolsets, it is critical to understand the data security built-in each tool and other options to secure the data if the toolset does not provide what is needed by enterprise security requirements.

This talk will first cover fundamental security aspects such as Authentication, Authorization and Auditing and then discuss standard/extended security options available in Apache Hadoop ecosystem. Then, we will discuss Apache Ranger (http://hortonworks.com/hadoop/ranger/) in depth as how it can be used to secure Hadoop ecosystem from a centralized web interface and various aspects of Security Administration (with a demo). Then, we will go over strategies and best practices to be used in securing enterprise data within big data systems.

Speakers Bio:

Selvamohan Neethiraj

Selvamohan Neethiraj (Selva) manages the enterprise security development team at Hortonworks (HDP), working on Apache Ranger (http://hortonworks.com/hadoop/ranger/) to enable central security framework for Hadoop ecosystem. Previously, Selva was a co-founder and CTO of a Hadoop Security startup, XASecure, which built a security product that addresses some of the key security gaps in the Hadoop Infrastructures. Selva had presented a technical session "You are Hacked: Ten Strategies to secure your Enterprise Java EE Applications" at JavaOne Conference.

Velmurugan Periasamy

Velmurugan Periasamy (Vel) has many years of software industry experience in developing and managing large-scale enterprise systems. He works in enterprise security development team at Hortonworks, contributing to Apache Ranger. He is a frequent speaker at technical conferences and delivered many presentations in JavaOne, OSCON, Jazoon etc.

Sponsors:

MACH37 (https://www.mach37.com/) - Cybersecurity Accelerator