In all the earlier chapters, you learned how to use Kafka. In this chapter, our focus is more towards securing Kafka. Securing Kafka is one of the important aspect in enterprise adoption of Kafka. Organizations have lot of sensitive information that needs to be stored in secure environment to ensure security compliance. In this chapter, we focus on ways of securing sensitive information in Kafka. We will focus on the different security aspects of Apache Kafka and will cover the following topics:
- An overview of securing Kafka
- Wire encryption using SSL
- Kerberos SASL for authentication
- Understanding ACL and authorization
- Understanding Zookeeper authentication
- Apache Ranger for authorization
- Best practices for Kafka security
