Appendix A. Solutions Available for Securing Hadoop

This section will focus on providing an overview of the various commercial and open source technologies that are available to address the various security aspects, and how they fit into the reference architecture of securing enterprise Big Data assets.

Hadoop distribution with enhanced security support

Intel Distribution of Apache Hadoop software provides some enhanced security features in a Hadoop distribution. Some of the key features for Intel's distribution are:

  • It provides an integrated data encryption feature for sensitive data. The encryption is based on OpenSSL 1.0.1.C, which is optimized for Intel AES-NI.
  • Apart from encryption, Intel's distribution supports out of the box compression and ...

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