As more and more analytics projects graduate from siloed pilot implementations to production, the need for control grows more pressing in the enterprise, necessitating a new approach to security that focuses on the data itself rather than the perimeter as traditional models have. The problem is that Hadoop and  many of the other open source technologies used to sift through large volumes unstructured information today don’t yet provide this level of protection out-of-the-box.

A company called Zettaset is addressing the analytics functionality gap with Orchestrator, a management platform that  supports all the major distributions of the batch processing framework and, as of this week, HBase as well. The database runs directly on top of HDFS and provides a higher degree of  read/write consistency than many other NoSQL platforms, a feature that has helped it become one of the most widely used technologies in the Big Data community.

Zettaset’s newly unveiled HBase Security extends the capabilities of Orchestrator deeper into the Hadoop ecosystem through a unified console for configuring and protecting large-scale deployments. Among other things, it provides the ability to assign access privileges at the table, column and column family  levels, granularity aimed at making it easier for admins to achieve the delicate balance between flexibility and effective governance.

Application-level security is becoming increasingly important, but as far as IBM is concerned, it’s no substitute for a comprehensive network protection policy.  The technology stalwart is rolling out an offering called the Threat Protection System that it describes as an end-to-end analytic architecture capable of detecting attacks and responding before any damage can occur. The platform combines an enhanced version of the firm’s QRadar Security Intelligence threat detection tool with its brand new Incident Forensics software and Trusteer Apex, an end-point protection product featuring integrations with a wide array of partner solutions.

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