The Odd Couple: Hadoop and Data Security | OnStrategies Perspectives

Final paragraphs of a timely Hadoop/data security reality check

"Incumbents such as IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, and SAP/Sybase will (and in some cases already are) likely extend their protection umbrellas to Hadoop. That places onus on third parties – both veteran and startups – on the Hadoop side to get their acts together and align behind some security gateway framework allowing centralized administration of authentication, access, authorization, and data protection measures. Incubating projects like Apache Knox offer some promise, but again, the balkanized nature of open source projects threatens to make this a best of breed challenge as well as you have related functions — like what you do with data at different portions of the lifecycle – part of the domain of separate projects.
For Hadoop to go enterprise, the burden of integration must be taken off the backs of enterprise customers. For Hadoop security, the open source meritocracy will have to stop talking piecemeal projects before incumbents deliver their own faits accomplis: captive open source silos to their own security umbrellas."

The Odd Couple: Hadoop and Data Security | OnStrategies Perspectives