Apache: Big Data 2016

Reliable, high-rate ingestion of data from a large variety of sources is the first step toward answering big analytical questions, and Apache Kafka, a scalable publish-subscribe messaging system, is a popular choice for this goal. With the increasing adoption of Kafka, security has become more important than ever. In this talk, Ashish Singh will review recent advancements made in Kafka towards closing security gaps, and discuss how addition of pluggable authorization in Kafka has enabled Apache Sentry (incubating) to provide an enterprise-grade, fine-grained, role-based authorization in Kafka. The talk will conclude with a demonstration of a working example of how administrators can rely on Sentry for enforcing fine-grained authorization in multi-tenant Kafka platforms.