Data security is essential to support multiple use cases for data access within Hadoop while monitoring user access and providing central administration of security policies.

It is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive data security across the Hadoop platform

It defines, administers, and manages the security policies through its centralized platform

It provides a centralized security administration, access control and detailed auditing for user access within the Hadoop HDFS, Hive, HBase, Storm, Knox, Solr, Kafka, NiFi, YARN