Securing Your Streaming Data with Role Based Access Control: What, Why and How

As streaming platforms such as Apache Kafka become the central nervous system of enterprises, it is crucial to ensure security of streaming data as such data plays an increasingly important role in mission critical applications in organizations. Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) is one of the most common ways to provide security for data in motion. Access control privileges that are defined in a RBAC service determine which role can access and perform operations on specific resources. In this talk, we first present the state of the art in Role-Based Access Control for streaming data in Apache Kafka. We then present a novel approach where we bring the same RBAC concepts from relational systems to the data in motion space and compare it with the current solutions.

Attendees will learn about the state of the art in security and Role-Based Access Control in data streaming technologies and understand challenges in these approaches. They will also learn a novel approach that they can use in their organizations to secure access to the streaming data, whether it is stored in one Kafka cluster or across many Kafka clusters.