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From YouTube: The Last Pickle: Hardening Apache Cassandra for Compliance or Paranoia

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Speaker: Nate McCall, Co-Founder

Security is always at odds with usability, particularly in the context of operations and development. More so when dealing with a distributed system such as Apache Cassandra. In this presentation, we'll walk through the steps required to completely secure a Cassandra cluster to meet most regulatory and compliance guidelines.

Topics will include:
- Encrypting cross-DC traffic
- Different types of at-rest disk encryption options available (and how to tune them)
- Configuring SSL for inter-cluster communication
- Configuring SSL between clients and the API
- Configuring and managing client authentication

Attendees will leave this presentation with the knowledge required to harden Cassandra to meet most guidelines imposed by regulations and compliance.