The Importance Of Log Management In Big Data

Companies are mostly using Big Data solutions for log management. Sam Heywood (director of the Cloudera Security Centre of Excellence of Cloudera) said that "log data, intrusion alerts and other types of security-related information is a perfect fit for Big Data systems". Unlike the traditional approaches to collect the information, Big Data offers a platform which is scalable in order to collect the data and hence also cost-effective. It also provides the tools for long-term analysis which remains unaffected by the rules-based approaches. The necessary steps taken by the companies’ leads to an increase in security because they want to make sure that they are operating Big Data system in a safe and secure environment.

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