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Posted to users@kafka.apache.org by Jamie Wang <ja...@actuate.com> on 2012/11/30 20:28:39 UTC

Security measure

Hi,

Is there any security enforcement built into Kafka broker that the system can have control  who can send and consume messages?   I understand kafka is most likely installed/deployed behind firewalls. But even with that, someone with knowledge of topic can potentially sabotage or sniffing information (especially within a financial company). Anyone has any suggestions on how to handle this?

Thanks
Jamie

Re: Security measure

Posted by Joel Koshy <jj...@gmail.com>.

Right now, no - clients can of course send/store only encrypted messages to
help mitigate that limitation.



On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Jamie Wang <ja...@actuate.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there any security enforcement built into Kafka broker that the system
> can have control  who can send and consume messages?   I understand kafka
> is most likely installed/deployed behind firewalls. But even with that,
> someone with knowledge of topic can potentially sabotage or sniffing
> information (especially within a financial company). Anyone has any
> suggestions on how to handle this?
>
> Thanks
> Jamie
>