Tackling the Big Data Challenge

Post date: Sep 06, 2012 6:29:58 AM

Alliance Seeks to Help Business, Government Adopt Best Practices

To address the security and privacy challenges magnified by the velocity, volume and variety of big data, the Cloud Security Alliance has formed a big data working group. What are the group's objectives?

"The goal of this group is to help industry and government adopt best practices," says J.R. Santos, global research director for CSA, in an interview with Information Security Media Group.

In the interview, Santos, CSA Chief Operating Officer John Howie and Arnab Roy, research member of Fujitsu Laboratories of America, outline six specific themes:

• Big data-scale crypto;

• Cloud infrastructure;

• Data analytics for security;

• Framework and taxonomy;

• Policy and governance;

• Privacy.

Read more:http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/interviews/tackling-big-data-challenge-i-1647?rf=2012-09-05-eb&elq=d1e3c347e60f45a8a1bc96d3209d19e6&elqCampaignId=4439

By Eric Chabrow, September 5, 2012.