Security in your streaming solution

Secure access to sources and sinks in your solution is paramount. There are some considerations that you might want to go through when implementing a streaming solution with ASA.

Connecting to sources and sinks

If you examine the Integrating sources and Writing to sinks sections, you will find the authentication mode in the list of the connectors in almost every one except Event Hubs and IoT Hub, where you would use key and connection strings to connect.

Implementing authentication with either service users and passwords or managed identities will already create very secure access into your sources and sinks. Azure Active Directory implements a multitude of security measures to eliminate the possibility for attackers to break into your solution.

With the use of managed identities, you are implementing a service principal. This is a kind of Azure user that can only be used with Azure services. You can compare them to the on-premises service...