Hadoop vendors make a jumble of security

A year ago a Deutsche Bank survey of CIOs found that “CIOs are now broadly comfortable with [ #Hadoop ] and see it as a significant part of the future data architecture.” They're so comfortable, in fact, that many CIOs haven’t thought to question Hadoop’s built-in security, leading Gartner analyst Merv Adrian to query, “Can it be that people believe Hadoop is secure? Because it certainly is not.” That was then, this is now, and the primary Hadoop vendors are getting serious about security. That’s the good news. The bad, however, is that they’re approaching Hadoop security in significantly different ways, which promises to turn big data’s open source poster child into a potential pitfall for vendor lock-in.

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