Security is the next killer app for Hadoop
It looks like we can add security to the growing list of killer apps for Hadoop. The open-source, data-processing tool is already popular for search engines, social-media analysis, targeted marketing and other applications that can benefit from clusters of machines churning through unstructured data — now it’s turning its attention to security data.
At a high level, using Hadoop — or any big data tool — to sniff out security problems makes sense for the exact same reason to use Hadoop to do anything: Organizations have lots of data, and they’re trying to glean as many insights as possible from it.
I think targeted applications for specific industries and uses will help drive Hadoop and other big data tools into mainstream businesses, and security is a great starting point. Security concerns are universal, and anything that can bring a proven and white-hot technology like Hadoop to bear on them should garner serious attention.
