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Chanchal Singh
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Chanchal Singh has over half decades experience in Product Development and Architect Design. He has been working very closely with leadership team of various companies including directors ,CTO's and Founding members to define technical road-map for company.He is the Founder and Speaker at meetup group Big Data and AI Pune MeetupExperience Speaks. He is Co-Author of Book Building Data Streaming Application with Apache Kafka. He has a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from the University of Mumbai and a Master's degree in Computer Application from Amity University. He was also part of the Entrepreneur Cell in IIT Mumbai. His Linkedin Profile can be found at with the username Chanchal Singh.
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Manish Kumar works as Director of Technology and Architecture at VSquare. He has over 13 years' experience in providing technology solutions to complex business problems. He has worked extensively on web application development, IoT, big data, cloud technologies, and blockchain. Aside from this book, Manish has co-authored three books (Mastering Hadoop 3, Artificial Intelligence for Big Data, and Building Streaming Applications with Apache Kafka).
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An overview of securing Kafka

Kafka is used as a centralized event data store, receiving data from various sources, such as micro services and databases.

In any enterprise deployment of Kafka, security should be looked at from five paradigms. They are as follows:

  • Authentication: This establishes who the client(producer or consumer) is that trying to use Kafka services. Kafka has support for the Kerberos authentication mechanism.
  • Authorization: This establishes what kind of permission the client (producer or consumer) has on topics. Kafka has support for ACLs for authorization. Apache tools, such as Ranger, can also be used for Kafka authorization.
  • Wire encryption: This ensures that any sensitive data traveling over the network is encrypted and not in plain text. Kafka has support for SSL communication between the client (producer or consumer) and the broker. Even inter-broker...
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Published in: Aug 2017Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781787283985

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Chanchal Singh

Chanchal Singh has over half decades experience in Product Development and Architect Design. He has been working very closely with leadership team of various companies including directors ,CTO's and Founding members to define technical road-map for company.He is the Founder and Speaker at meetup group Big Data and AI Pune MeetupExperience Speaks. He is Co-Author of Book Building Data Streaming Application with Apache Kafka. He has a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from the University of Mumbai and a Master's degree in Computer Application from Amity University. He was also part of the Entrepreneur Cell in IIT Mumbai. His Linkedin Profile can be found at with the username Chanchal Singh.
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Manish Kumar

Manish Kumar works as Director of Technology and Architecture at VSquare. He has over 13 years' experience in providing technology solutions to complex business problems. He has worked extensively on web application development, IoT, big data, cloud technologies, and blockchain. Aside from this book, Manish has co-authored three books (Mastering Hadoop 3, Artificial Intelligence for Big Data, and Building Streaming Applications with Apache Kafka).
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