Secondary and Primary Issues in Analytics - Dumnonia Organization

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A report Secondary and Primary Issues in Analytics - Dumnonia Corporation
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Executive summary
Big data has become a subject of concern in business organizations today. It could also be
noted that this technology is associated with security issues. Dumnonia is one of the
organizations known Australia wide for insurance services. The organization serve massive
population including the Australia citizens. It has also extended its operation oversea.
Considering the population served by Dumnonia, the organization is holding a considerable
amount of data. And these data have to be kept as big data hosted in their information system.
Dumnonia’s CEO is worried about how they can secure their users’ data. Being that the
organization mainly offer medical insurance services, it holds sensitive data that need maximum
protection.
There have been traditional ways of protecting data in such circumstances. However, the
methods have become outdated and also considering the fact that there have been a considerable
increase in data, there is need for security management strategy that is up to date. K-anonymity is
a promising security management approach and would be the recommendable approach for the
organization. This approach involves anonymizing data making it difficult for cyber criminals to
access. It works best with big data hence the move to implement the approach as Dumnonia
corporate wish to do would be a wise decision being that the organization also wish to expand
their system and hence the amount of data they will be holding massive data. In this document,
we discuss some aspects involving data analytics. This paper examine the implantation of the k-
anonymity as a model to ensure security for the organization’s big data system. We have
explored the organization drivers in relation to the implantation of the k-anonymity approach, we
have also done technology assessment solutions and k-anonymity implementation guide. A
comparison for two publicly available implementations is also done. Based on these analysis, it

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must be noticed that the k-anonymity approach promise a considerable significance as far as a
system security is concerned, thus implementing it would be a good move for the organization.
The organization drivers
The key drivers for the organization is the cloud based technology which they currently
use as the case study states that the organization undertakes initial pilots including the use of
AWS and cloud services, thus a lot depend the pilot studies outcome. After the studies, the
organization may shift to other platforms based on the company’s requirements such as big data
cloud platform.
As far as security issues are concerned, the current key driver for the organization is
focusing on the perimeter security. The organization still uses security systems used in the past
like IDS, firewall, they also employ security management technologies including the use of
malware protection, encryption, and password. The organization is however not very sure on the
security facet for securing the big data system.
About the organization’s database and data handling, the company depends on the
traditional data storage i.e. an organization data warehouse as a driver. They however noticed the
potential significance of a cloud-based approach but they are afraid of the operational draw backs
of cloud based big data system and privacy as well as security issues associated with cloud based
systems.
In regards to customers, the organization currently have a policy that should be fit its
customers. This is essential as it provides the organization with an opportunity for gaining a
competitive advantage of the customers’ data that they possess.
The organization drivers in relation to the deployment of k-anonymity

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Dumnonia is an insurance agency serving wide ranging population. According to the case
study, the corporate’s customers population is inclining. Additionally, due to the reason that the
organization is big and operates in many countries, it holds massive data. Currently, the
organization’s data volume is swelling at a considerable rate. And the factors concerning big data
requires the utmost attention. As such, the changes that are experienced in the company needs to
be explored in a proper manner. We can consider that the organization need to know various
factors so as to understand the significance, relationships, importance as well as improvements
within the company which could result from the use of big data. Thus the significance of the
study could be determined and will be better for Dumnonia corporate in future hence this drives
the corporate towards the adoption of the k-anonymity technology (Khoshgozaran, Shahabi and
Shirani-Mehr, 2011, pp.435-465).
The k-anonymity refers to a method that can be used to anonymize data in a company’s
big data system so that the organization’s private information are not identified in their system.
According to the scenario script, the corporate uses a traditional-based system. They have an
organizational warehouse. They also have controls that should be relevant to its customers in
order to keep the customers happy. However, achieving this will be just but a dream if the
organization customers’ details are under risk. Besides, they also need to gain a competitive
advantage due to the big data they are holding. Providing security to their customer’s data should
therefore be a priority. For instance, on the off chance that their consumers are in a certain poste
code-when consumers experience some problems concerning data breach-the organization
should launch new security management approaches such as a new big data security approach
that would offer maximum protection to their consumers’ data. This way, Dumnonia’s customers