Building Data Streaming Applications with Apache Kafka

Summary

In this chapter, we covered different Kafka security paradigms. Our goal with this chapter is to ensure that you understand different paradigms of securing Kafka. We wanted you to first understand what are different areas you should evaluate while securing Kafka. After that, we wanted to address how parts of securing Kafka. One thing to note here is that Authentication and Authorization is something you have to always implement in a secure Kafka cluster. Without these two, your Kafka cluster is not secure. SSL can be optional but is strongly recommended for highly sensitive data. Please keep not of best practices of securing Kafka as these are more gathered from  practical industry implementation experiences of securing Kafka.