Securing Sensitive Data: How to Navigate the New World of Compliance

This paper describes five best practices for achieving the latest compliance standards based on work done between MasterCard and the Hadoop market leader, Cloudera. The urgent need for partnerships to embrace data usage and security is detailed as well as the importance of achieving the latest compliance standards to use data responsibly, with a flexible, future-proof platform, to defend against potential security breaches.

In 2015 global businesses will spent $76.9 billion on data security. To add some perspective, that's more than the entire GDP of most developing countries, more than the annual Israeli defense budget, and more than the entire New York City budget for 2015.

That number is also an indication of the priority companies place on data security.