Security

The video we posted on June 23rd, 2015 (link here) introduced our efforts to open up our big data platform to other teams within AppNexus. Data Platform as a Service (DPaaS) is our internal offering that allows other teams at AppNexus to run analytics upon our…

When last we saw our heroes, they were battling Hadoop authentication in DPaaS. But our intrepid knights were able to overcome that crafty foe and move on to the next obstacle: authorization. And that’s where our story continues…

Last week a security researcher, Randy Westergren, pointed out in a blog post a vulnerability from cross-site scripting (XSS) that was common across our industry and impacted AppNexus. We’ve since rolled out a patch to the immediate issue and encourage you to read…

As we’ve seen in our past couple of posts — Securing our Big Data Platform: Part 1 and Securing our Data Platform: Part 2 — we’ve been hard at work beefing up the security of our Big Data Platform. We had one other important piece of the puzzle to solve before…