International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research

E-ISSN: 2582-2160     Impact Factor: 9.24

A Widely Indexed Open Access Peer Reviewed Multidisciplinary Bi-monthly Scholarly International Journal

Call for Paper Volume 8, Issue 3 (May-June 2026) Submit your research before last 3 days of June to publish your research paper in the issue of May-June.

Scalable Multi-Tenant Data Lakes with Zero Trust Security Architecture

Author(s) Chandrasekhar Anuganti
Country United States
Abstract The exponential growth of enterprise data volumes necessitates scalable storage solutions that maintain stringent security controls across multi-tenant environments. Traditional data lake architectures exhibit significant vulnerabilities when deployed in shared infrastructure contexts, particularly regarding data isolation, access control granularity, and lateral movement prevention. This research presents a novel multi-tenant data lake architecture that integrates zero trust security principles with cloud-native scalability frameworks. Our proposed system implements dynamic micro-segmentation through software-defined networking overlays, identity-aware encryption mechanisms operating at the data block level, and fine-grained access policies enforced during data ingestion and query execution phases. The architecture leverages hybrid deployment across Hadoop Distributed File System and Snowflake cloud data warehouse platforms to optimize performance characteristics while maintaining security isolation boundaries. Comprehensive evaluation using synthetically generated datasets scaling to 10 petabytes demonstrates near-linear scalability properties with query latency increases remaining below 8% under high-concurrency workloads involving 1000+ simultaneous tenant operations. Statistical analysis reveals 99.97% data isolation effectiveness with zero cross-tenant data leakage incidents across 50,000 test scenarios. The proposed architecture addresses critical gaps in existing multi-tenant data lake security frameworks while providing practical deployment pathways for enterprise-scale implementations.
Keywords data lakes, zero trust architecture, multi-tenancy, cloud security, micro-segmentation, identity-aware encryption, scalable storage
Field Engineering
Published In Volume 7, Issue 2, March-April 2025
Published On 2025-04-07
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i02.57207

Share this