Practical Hadoop Security

Practical Hadoop Security is an excellent resource for administrators planning a production Hadoopdeployment whowant to secure their Hadoop clusters.A detailed guide to thesecurity options and configurationwithin Hadoop itself, author BhushanLakhe takes you through a comprehensive studyof how to implement defined security within a Hadoop cluster in a hands-on way.

You will start witha detailed overview of all the security options available for Hadoop, includingpopular extensions like Kerberos and OpenSSH, and then delve into a hands-on implementation of user security (with illustrated code samples)with both in-the-box features and with security extensions implemented by leading vendors.

No security system is complete without a monitoring and tracing facility, so Practical Hadoop Security next steps you throughaudit logging and monitoring technologies for Hadoop, as well as ready to useimplementation and configuration examples--again with illustrated code samples.

The book concludes with the most important aspect of Hadoop security – encryption. Both types of encryptions, for data in transit and data at rest, are discussed at length with leading open source projects that integrate directly with Hadoop at no licensing cost.

Practical Hadoop Security:

• Explains importance of security, auditing and encryption within a Hadoop installation
• Describes how the leading players have incorporated these features within their Hadoop distributions and provided extensions
• Demonstrates how to set up and use these features to your benefit and make your Hadoop installation secure without impacting performance or ease of use
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What you’ll learn

• Understand your options for implementing Hadoop user security
• Learn how to configure and set up security for your Hadoop cluster
• Set upHadoop audit logs, Hadoop metrics, monitoring technologies and related products
• Configure and set up logging, metrics and monitoring for your Hadoop cluster
• Discover and implement encryption for data in transit and data at rest
• and much more.
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Who this book is for

Practical Hadoop Security is an excellent resource for Hadoop administrators who want to secure their environment. IT management planning a production Hadoop environment will also find this text useful. This book is also for students who wish to learn about Hadoop security.