If there’s one thing enterprises have learned in 2020, it’s how to navigate through uncertain times, and in 2021, organizations will likely have to continue navigating through a shifting landscape. One trend that we’ve seen this year, is that enterprises are leveraging streaming data as a way to traverse through unplanned disruptions, as a way […]
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 […]
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. Secured Apache Kafka clusters can be configured to enforce authentication using different methods, including the following: SSL – TLS client […]
Users today are asking ever more from their data warehouse. This is resulting in advancements of what is provided by the technology, and a resulting shift in the art of the possible. As an example of this, in this post we look at Real Time Data Warehousing (RTDW), which is a category of use cases […]
We are thrilled to announce that Cloudera has acquired Eventador, a provider of cloud-native services for enterprise-grade stream processing. Eventador, based in Austin, TX, was founded by Erik Beebe and Kenny Gorman in 2016 to address a fundamental business problem – make it simpler to build streaming applications built on real-time data. This typically involved […]
Cloudera delivers an enterprise data cloud that enables companies to build end-to-end data pipelines for hybrid cloud, spanning edge devices to public or private cloud, with integrated security and governance underpinning it to protect customers data. Cloudera has found that customers have spent many years investing in their big data assets and want to continue […]
In this blogpost, we are going to take a look at some of the OpDB related security features of a CDP Private Cloud Base deployment. We are going to talk about auditing, different security levels, security features of Data Catalog, and Client Considerations. You can find part 1 of this series, here. Auditing Comprehensive auditing […]
CDP for Azure introduces fine-grained authorization for access to Azure Data Lake Storage using Apache Ranger policies. Cloudera and Microsoft have been working together closely on this integration, which greatly simplifies the security administration of access to ADLS-Gen2 cloud storage. Apache Ranger provides a centralized console to manage authorization and view audits of access to […]
In this blog post, we are going to take a look at some of the OpDB related security features of a CDP Private Cloud Base deployment. We are going to talk about encryption, authentication and authorization. Data-at-rest encryption Transparent data-at-rest encryption is available through the Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) feature in HDFS. TDE provides the […]
Live data-streaming offers businesses exciting new opportunities to transform the way they operate, leveraging real-time insights to drive better decision making and enhance operational efficiency. To find out more about how streaming data might impact the financial services sector I sat down for a chat with Dinesh Chandrasekhar, Head of Product Marketing in Cloudera’s Data-in-Motion […]