/plushcap/analysis/datastax/2020-11-how-keep-pirates-hackers-away-your-booty-data-cassandra-rbac

How to Keep Pirates “Hackers” Away From Your Booty “Data” with Cassandra RBAC

What's this blog post about?

The text discusses strategies for implementing Cassandra Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) to enhance data safety in a database. It emphasizes the importance of maintaining separate roles for users and permissions, creating standardized roles for common permissions like "read-only" and "read-write", and avoiding overly complex role structures. The text also suggests using prefixes or suffixes for roles specific to keyspaces or tables, and advises against assigning "roles of roles" to users.

Company
DataStax

Date published
Nov. 5, 2020

Author(s)
Matt Kennedy

Word count
703

Language
English

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