Nermin Hamza Ewais

Assistant Professor at KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY, KSA

IOT & Big Data Security

Session Title | NoSQL database security.

In a different way of the relational databases. NoSQL is being non-relational, distributed and open-source. Not only can NoSQL systems handle both structured and unstructured data, but they can also process unstructured Big Data quickly. This led to organizations such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google accepting NoSQL systems because of These organizations process tremendous amounts of unstructured data used by millions of users. NoSQL databases are divided into 4 categories: Key-value stores, Document databases, column stores, and Graph stores. Every category has different database engines like MongoDB, CouchDB, Cassandra ….etc.

The talk is going to focus on the following points:

1. History of NoSQL and Why NoSQL databases?

2. What is the difference between relational database and NoSQL

3. The security issues in for databases ex: authentication, access control, privacy …

4. How the security issues were handled in NoSQL databases and the difference between them and relation-databases

5. The security challenges in NoSQL databases

  • Nermin is Assistant Professor at the information technology department in the Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY, Jeddah, KSA
  • She was Assistant Professor at Cairo University
  • She has a Ph.D. degree in computer science at network security field
  • She has got “Certified Ethical Hacker” since 2017
  • She Participates at security research papers in many security approaches like security in non-SQL databases, authentication in cloud system, privacy protection ..etc.
  • She is a Supervisor of security thesis (Master and Ph.D.)
  • She is a Supervisor of under graduation projects in information technology
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