Big data is best known for its volume, variety, and velocity — collectively referred to as the “3 Vs” — and all three of those traits make security an elusive goal. Targeting companies grappling with that challenge, the Cloud Security Alliance on Friday released a new report offering 100 best practices. As its name would suggest, the CSA focuses on promoting the use of security best practices within the cloud computing world; corporate members include VMware, Microsoft, AWS, and Red Hat. In an earlier report , the CSA broke down big data security risks into a set of the top 10 major challenges. Now, for each of those, it presents 10 best practices designed to help enterprises keep their information safe.For companies working with distributed programming frameworks such as Apache Hadoop, for example, the CSA recommends using Kerberos authentication or an equivalent to help establish trust.To ensure that the privacy of data subjects is not compromised, all personally identifiable information such as names, addresses, and Social Security numbers must be either masked or removed. It’s also important to watch for the presence of “quasi-identifiers” that can almost identify a data subject, including ZIP code, date of birth, or gender, the… Read full this story
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