But rather than merely scoop up a third-party vendor's product and resell it, Hortonworks has announced a plan to contribute the security solution back to the open source community as an Apache Software Foundation project.
The acquired company, XA Secure, produces a security solution for Hadoop designed to add "data security, authorization, auditing, and overall governance" features to the product. Several existing companies, such as Sprint, have already been using XA Secure's Hadoop solution.
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