Cloud Security in Map/Reduce

Presented at DEF CON 17 (2009), July 31, 2009, 12:30 p.m. (20 minutes)

This presentation is an overview of the operations principles of Map/Reduce and Hadoop with examples of typical implementation in a business environment. It points out significant security issues that now exist and others that will certainly arise. The presentation also offers suggestions for improving security in existing installations, and presents improvements to provide security going forward.


Presenters:

  • Jason Schlesinger - Security Researcher
    Jason Schlesinger is a computational mathematics undergraduate student at Arizona State University. He has studied different forms of cloud computing over the former half of the year 2009. He has a history of technical support and information technology, with an emphasis on open source telephony.

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