The phrase “with great power comes great responsibility” was excellent advice when Ben Parker said it to his nephew Peter, aka Spiderman. It is even more applicable to any organization using open source software to manage their big data analysis. This is especially true since, in 2018, significant vulnerabilities were identified and disclosed for both Hadoop and Spark, allowing unauthenticated remote code execution via their REST APIs. Many enterprises have adopted big data processing components … More →

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