Chapter 9: An Overview Of Security Aspects

In Chapter 8, Exploring the Admin User Interface, we learned about the admin user interface, which provides several features to help manage the cluster. The admin user interface is also very useful in debugging issues as it provides metrics about the health of the cluster, transactions, and queries.

In this chapter, we will learn about security. The increase in cloud usage has given rise to an enormous amount of surface attacks. Now, hackers have various ways to compromise a given system and leak its data. Ransomware, phishing, malware, spyware, and threatware are some of the most popular programs that intend to cause harm to your systems and leak their data, either to gain popularity or money. Cloud cybersecurity experts are the most sought-after in today's world. Since a transactionally distributed SQL database will be at the heart of any core infrastructure, it's of the utmost importance to pay attention to the security aspects...