Today, Apache Kafka is the technology of choice for ingesting real-time, streaming data. But security remains a critical concern—especially if you’re dealing with sensitive data such as financial transactions, healthcare records, or customer addresses. 

In these situations, your pipelines require encryption, access control, and audit logging from the very beginning. Without these safeguards, sensitive data can be exposed before it ever reaches its destination—putting your business at risk of breaches, fines, and reputational damage. Kafka alone doesn’t offer comprehensive protection, which is why modern teams layer in tools purpose-built for secure, compliant stream processing.

This free ebook will walk you through how to provide a comprehensive security posture for your Kafka environment, including:

• Encryption in transit, at rest, and at the field level

• Scalable authentication and RBAC policies

• Compliance monitoring for threat detection

• Chaos testing to ensure resilience and performance under pressure

• Why (and how) Kafka’s built-in tools cannot stand on their own