Protecting Hadoop Data At Rest with HDFS Encryption

Please join us to learn some best practices for data encryption & we'll be raffling off 2 copies of Hadoop Security, published by O'Reilly.

Agenda:

• 6-630 Food and drinks

• 630-715 Tech Talk with Q&A

• 715-8 Networking

Protecting Hadoop data at rest with HDFS encryption

Data encryption is a requirement for many business sectors dealing with confidential information, such as finance, healthcare, and government. To meet these requirements, transparent, end-to-end encryption was added to HDFS. Once configured, data read from and written to certain HDFS directories is transparently encrypted and decrypted without requiring any changes to user application code. This encryption is also end-to-end, meaning that data is protected both in-flight and at-rest, and can only be encrypted and decrypted by the client. This improves security since HDFS itself never handles unencrypted data or data encryption keys.

During this talk, we will cover the design, implementation, and usage of transparent encryption in HDFS.

Speaker: Eddie Garcia, Chief Security Architect at Cloudera

Eddie Garcia leads the company’s customer-facing technical resources including the pre-sales technical team, implementation and deployment engineers, security architects, customer support and the DevOps infrastructure used by Gazzang and our customers. Prior to this role, Eddie was Gazzang’s VP of Engineering responsible for software development and Quality Assurance. He was also the chief architect of the Gazzang zNcrypt product platform. He has more than 18 years of experience in both building and delivering commercial software products and in-house IT solutions.

Location notes: We will provide a validation for parking. The garage (Bank of America) is located on 6th street between Brazos and Congress. Turn left in front of the P. Terry’s. Pull a ticket upon entry and we will provide you with a validation.