Big Data Security and Privacy Issues - A Survey

Nowadays, many people get connected with each other in one virtual world known as "Cyber Society" instead of physically connected. The interaction of people with cyber society components, such as social media, search engines, blogs, websites-with their services, causes generation of enormous amount of data termed as, "Big Data". With adaption of Big Data in banking, finance, retail industry, health care, smart city, social media and IT sectors, it has started gaining importance along with many research challenges such as heterogeneity, data life cycle management, data processing, scalability, security and privacy, and data visualization. Many security and privacy issues emerged with Big Data that are not likely to be solved by conventional security solutions. Hence, this article is aimed to present overall perspective snapshot of security and privacy issues of Big Data.