Demystifying Big Data in the Cloud

Big data in the cloud are an emerging paradigm for huge and federated data processing, storing and distributing by deploying web applications. Scalability, elasticity, pay-per-use pricing, and an advance of ICT scale from large and dynamic applications and performance are the major reasons for the success and widespread adoption of big data cloud infrastructures. It is ‘no secret of the enterprise data', which is challenging for privacy and security. In this chapter, authors deeply discussed and introduce novel approaches and methodologies to easily understood big data phenomenon and technology towards data or web resources privacy and security. Nutshell, big data has a powerful potential to predict cloud risks to develop and deploy corporate security strategies. The chapter's contribution is, in general, to gain a meaningful insight of big data in the cloud and its applications, which is hot issues for today's businesses to make proactive and knowledge-driven decisions.