Big Data Security: A Review on Issues and Challenges

Abstract: Big data, a recently accepted term that refers to a very big collection of very large and compound data sets, is facing serious security and privacy challenges. Big Data has developed into a essential for business, researchers, healthcare, and government agencies. Big Data deals with collection of enormous digital information for analysing, visualizing and to draw the insights for the prediction & prevention of cyber-attacks. The world is becoming more and more interconnected with the advent of the Internet of Things and new technologies. The users are producing more and more Internet of Things (IOT) data from different devices and systems in the unstructured form which is highly unmanageable and this management of data is the challenging job. In this paper we elaborate various security issues related to big data and their possible solutions to overcome the problems. After all what are the security and challenges facing Big Data?

Keywords: Big Data, Data Encryption, Security, Cloud Computing, Data Transmission