Chapter 1. Hadoop Security Overview

Like any development project, the ones in Hadoop start with proof of concept (POC). Especially because the technology is new and continuously evolving, the focus always begins with figuring out what it can offer and how to leverage it to solve different business problems, be it consumer analysis, breaking news processing, and so on. Being an open source framework, it has its own nuances and requires a learning curve. As these POCs mature and move to pilot and then to production phase, a new infrastructure has to be set up. Then questions arise around maintaining the newly setup infrastructure, including questions on data security and the overall ecosystem's security. Few of the questions that the infrastructure ...

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