Big Data Security

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Background................................................................................................................................2
Security and privacy concerns...................................................................................................3
Strategies for addressing the concerns.......................................................................................5
Conclusion and future trends.....................................................................................................7
References..................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction
Data security has been of great concern in many enterprises. In addition, there are
various dynamics in the data storage systems and technology impact the need for data
security. In the market, there is number of cutting edge technologies that executives and
managers need to be fear like increased use of internet, cloud servers and storage and various
other networking systems (Kshetri, 2014).
Big data is categorized by its variety, volume, veracity and value. To identify the
validity and value of data, it must first be processed and analyzed by organizations who look
to gain benefit from such information. In today’s digital age, big data analysis shows a
significant role in enterprises by contributing to their marketing strategies by building digital
portfolios on consumers through data and information attained from social media sites,
purchase history and search engines (Xu et al, 2014). These data are analyzed by the
company to explore customer preferences, determine trends and thus enable organizations to
market their services or products as per the expectations and interest of consumer. Though,
there are some drawbacks too in related to these big data projects considering privacy and
ethical concerns.
This report highlight all these concerns and other security and privacy factors linked
with big data. In addition, several strategies are also recommended for addressing these
concerns and in last, a conclusion is derived considering the future trends.
Background
Today’s information-age has led to cyberspace becoming a progressively important
feature. There is a continuous rise in security breach in information with relation to big data
security. Big data security is also a concern of cyber security and as per the report released by
computer security institute; it was found that almost 66% of all the data security breach
incidents in enterprises tend to be conducted from within the organisation by authorized user
(Tene & Polonetsky, 2012). In this emerging technology, big data basically identify
repositories which are beyond the capability of current applications of the database
management system considering management, analyzation and storage facilities for these