Data spillage in hadoop clusters
Joe Beckman, Tosin Alabi, Dheeraj Gurugubelli · Annual Information Security Symposium · 2015
Data spillage is the undesired transfer of classified information into an unauthorized compute node or memory media. The loss of control over sensitive and protected data can become a serious threat to business operations and national security (NSA Mitigation Group, 2012. We seek to understand if classified data leaked, by user error, into an unauthorized Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), be located, recovered, and removed completely from the server.