A practitioners guide to securing your Hadoop cluster

Mark Donsky, Andr Araujo, Syed Rafice, and Mubashir Kazia walk you through securing a Hadoop cluster. Youll start with a cluster with no security and then add security features related to authentication, authorization, encryption of data at rest, encryption of data in transit, and complete data governance.

Many Hadoop clusters lack even the most basic security controls. This is due to several factors: some security features did not exist as recently as two years ago, and the complexity of Hadoop security has proved daunting to administrators. Mark Donsky, André Araujo, Syed Rafice, and Mubashir Kazia walk you through securing a Hadoop cluster. You’ll start with a cluster with no security and then add security features related to authentication, authorization, encryption of data at rest, encryption of data in transit, and complete data governance. For each security feature, Mark, André, Syed, and Mubashir cover the following topics: