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Large and small businesses face daily reminders that their data’s security is under attack by digital pirates, hackers, and cybercriminals. These threats require an immediate response, whether it's an unexpected hacking threat or a newly discovered database vulnerability. In this guide, we’ll help you understand these threats and how to prevent them in 2021.
In the previous post, we talked about Kerberos authentication and explained how to configure a Kafka client to authenticate using Kerberos credentials. In this post we will look into how to configure a Kafka client to authenticate using LDAP, instead of Kerberos. We will not cover the server-side configuration in this article but will add some references to it when required to make the examples clearer.
As part of our ongoing commitment to supporting Government regulations and standards in our enterprise solutions, including data protection, Cloudera recently introduced a version of our Cloudera Data Platform, Private Cloud Base product (7.1.5 release) that can be configured to use FIPS compliant cryptography.
If you’re moving data in and out of Kafka, chances are you’re using Apache Kafka Connect. The strength of the Kafka community means we have a large catalog of available connectors for hundreds of different technologies, helping to accelerate the integration of Kafka with 3rd party systems.
Sauce Labs provides a number of features that help secure your testing experience and ensure that your data and applications are safe while using our cloud platform. One of the most popular features is Sauce Connect Proxy—a built-in HTTP proxy server that opens a secure "tunnel" connection for testing between a Sauce Labs virtual machine or real device and a website or mobile app hosted on your local computer ("localhost") or behind a corporate firewall.
Several years ago when I was working on a big data project, I saw something a data engineer shouldn’t see. Curious to understand the level of detail in a new credit score dataset we’d received in our data lake, I queried it. I was surprised at how easily and suddenly my screen was flooded with the mortgage history, overdraft limits and year-end financial statements of my colleagues, and I felt deeply uneasy.
This is the first installment in a short series of blog posts about security in Apache Kafka. In this article we will explain how to configure clients to authenticate with clusters using different authentication mechanisms.
