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Apache Ignite Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Apache Ignite Quick Start Guide Distributed data caching and processing made easy

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789347531
Length 260 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Securing data

Application security has become a necessity for protecting sensitive data from malicious activity. Ignite provides the following mechanism to protect our sensitive data:

  1. Inter node communication: Ignite doesn't have a master node to communicate with other nodes. When a new node gets added or removed from the network, the cluster rebalances data transparently. Therefore, we need to secure the inter-node communication channel so that when a new node is added, it doesn't get our application data automatically. Ignite allows you to use SSL socket communication to provide a secure connection among all Ignite nodes. We can configure SSL context factory to use trusted certificates and passwords.
  2. Authentication: Ignite allows you to secure the cluster by configuring authentication, but authentication is only supported when persistence is enabled.
  3. Trusting serialized...
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