Mark Terenzoni, CEO of Sqrrl, joins John Furrier and Dave Vellante in theCUBE for their ongoing coverage of Hadoop Summit. sqrrl builds software for Apache Accumulo and enables the development of secure, real-time applications that leverage big data. The three discuss security and Sqrrl’s business strategy.

Vellante observes that there is significantly greater awareness of security in the industry and asks how Sqrrrl architects security. Terenzoni states that security is not a bolt on. He explains,“You can’t at some point decide you want to be secure and try to bolt it on.” We’ve built the ecosystem to allow it to interface and work in an enterprise environment. He notes that Sqrrl has added some encryption capabilities around the whole system. Terenzoni’s main concern with security is that, “It can’t be a pointed solution, it can’t address one piece of the ecosystem. It’s a stack. When we’re talking about security is that we have to address the whole stack.” He adds that more projects that provide security will help HDFS and Hadoop roll out more readily to customers.

Sqrrl enterprise is in revenue now with version 1.1. of the product, which has been out for a month. Terezoni says the company is targeting opportunities in the government, banking, finance, telecommunications and healthcare. He explains that the company offers “a solution for developers to build real time big data applications very quickly and very easily. Once its ingested, its readily available.” The company has also built in discovery analytics.