Toward a Big Data Architecture for Security Events Analytic

Abstract

Cloud Computing did come up with so many attractive advantages such as scalability, flexibility, accessibility, rapid application deployment, and user self service. However in hindsight, Cloud Computing makes ensuring security within these environments so much challenging. Therefore traditional security mechanisms such as firewalls and antivirus softwares have proven insufficient and incapable of dealing with the sheer amount of data and events generated within a Cloud infrastructure. Herein, we present a highly scalable module based system that relies upon Big Data techniques and tools providing a comprehensive solution to process and analyze relevant events (packets flow, logs files) in order to generate an informative decisions that will be handled accordingly and swiftly.