Toward a cloud-based security intelligence with big data processing

Abstract

As the adoption of Cloud Computing is growing exponentially, a huge sheer amount of data is generated therefore needing to be processed in order to control efficiently what is going within the infrastructure, and also to respond effectively and promptly to security threats. Herein, we provide a highly scalable plugin based and comprehensive solution in order to have a real-time monitoring by reducing the impact of an attack or a particular issue in the overall distributed infrastructure. This work covers a bigger scope in infrastructure security by monitoring all devices that generate log files or generate network traffic. By applying different Big Data techniques for data analysis, we can ensure a responsive solution to any problem (security or other) within the infrastructure and acting accordingly.