The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) today launched the Big Data Working Group to address security and privacy issues of big data.
Big data's security and privacy issues are magnified by its velocity, volume, and variety. The issues include large-scale cloud infrastructures, diversity of data sources and formats, streaming nature of data acquisition and high volume inter-cloud migration.
To address the large number of issues tied to big data security and privacy, the group will look to provide research and guides on six specific themes: big data-scale crypto, cloud infrastructure, data analytics for security, framework and taxonomy, policy and governance, and privacy.
Specifically, the CSA Big Data Working Group will identify scalable techniques for data-centric security and privacy problems. The group will look to develop the best practices for security and privacy in big data, abd help industry and governments to adopt them. The Group will also liaise with other organizations to coordinate the development of big data security and privacy standards, and accelerate the adoption of novel research that aim to address security and privacy issues.
The immediate focus for CSA Big Data Working Group will be to develop an experimental platform of test data sets from different industry verticals such as e-commerce and healthcare. The group's first research report, due to release this fall, will identify the new and fundamentally different technical and organizational problems when addressing big data security and privacy.
Future planned reports include a focus on providing specific actionable information for big data security and privacy, creating standards for big data security and privacy best practices, and establishing security and privacy test beds to help strengthen security and privacy of big data cloud platforms.