Apache Kafka® Support

Apache Kafka is a powerful platform for streaming big data in real time for multiple providers and use cases, including data analysis downstream. Thousands of enterprises rely on Apache Kafka, as an open-source distributed event streaming platform, for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, and data integration. It is often used to move data from a traditional database or file storage into a modern analytic data warehouse like Snowflake® or Amazon Redshift or Apache Pinot™.

However, putting sensitive data in the clear can create massive security and compliance issues. The challenge is that legacy data encryption methods are not sufficient as they do not allow control over who can see what data and can also impede downstream data analytics and third party applications.

Baffle® Data Protection Services (DPS) Transform for Kafka is a purpose built software solution designed to simplify end-to-end security of the modern data pipeline.

Baffle DPS allows you to deploy a transparent data security mesh that encrypts or tokenizes sensitive data while it is being moved from a traditional database to a modern analytic data warehouse. This data-centric security approach ensures that no cleartext data is exposed in the analytics pipeline preventing the possibility of sensitive data from being stolen. With Baffle DPS, Kafka can implement functionality that provides end to end encryption of messages - with the consumer only being able to decrypt the Kafka topic from the Kafka broker if they have been granted the proper access.