Hadoop Security: Seven Ways to Kill an Elephant

Presented at Black Hat Europe 2014, Oct. 17, 2014, 3:30 p.m. (60 minutes)

Many companies are getting Hadoopy often with little or no consideration of security because Big Data is on their list of cool projects. Have they opened the door to compromise? Better predictions and more intelligent decisions are expected from our biggest data sets, yet can we really trust the systems we secure the least? And is anyone ready to face why our best "learning" machines continue to make amusing and sometimes tragic mistakes? Infosec is in this game but Big Data is moving at a pace faster than our controls are being considered. What have we done about emerging vulnerabilities and threats to Hadoop as it leaves many of our traditional data paradigms behind? This presentation, based on the new book "Realities of Big Data Security" takes the audience through seven simple ways to deal with serious risks and elephantine security challenges here today.


Presenters:

  • Davi Ottenheimer - EMC
    Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, has more than nineteen years experience managing global security operations and assessments, including a decade of leading incident response and digital forensics. He is co-author of the book "Securing the Virtual Environment: How to Defend the Enterprise Against Attack," published in May 2012 by Wiley. An expert in compliance, he served as a qualified PCI DSS and PA-DSS assessor with K3DES, and former Board Member for the Payment Card Industry Security Alliance and the Silicon Valley chapters of ISACA and OWASP. He formerly was responsible for security at Barclays Global Investors (BGI), the world's largest investment fund manager (now BlackRock). Prior to BGI he was a "dedicated paranoid" at Yahoo! and responsible for managing security for hundreds of millions of mobile, broadband, and digital home products. Davi received his postgraduate academic Master of Science degree in International History from the London School of Economics.

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