The continued rise of Big Data raises many concerns regarding the security and privacy of the data of individuals, companies and our society as a whole. Since the beginning of digital data storage, security breaches have occurred whereby attackers view, steal, modify, or delete data they should not have access to, and these breaches have increased in number and severity over time. Big data has become a very attractive target for attackers for obvious reasons. In the past, an attacker would target a specific user to steal their personal or financial information, but as public and private organizations began collecting and storing massive amounts of information from individuals, these attackers began to focus their own time and resources to breach the data stores of these organizations. From the attackers' point of view this makes perfect sense, why would they spend time and effort hacking an individual's data when they can hack a large data store containing the personal information of a huge amount of users? There are b...