Security

In this section of our reference documentation, learn about the basic workflows for securing your Dell Data Analytics Engine, powered by Starburst Enterprise platform (SEP) cluster.

• Security overview

Security topic areas

There are three main types of security measures for SEP clusters:

• User authentication and client security

• Security inside the cluster

• Security between the cluster and data sources

Built-in access control offer the most convenient way to configure security for the connected data sources as well as the features in the Starburst Enterprise web UI .

Built-in access control

SEP provides a built-in, role-based access control system that is integrated with the Starburst Enterprise web UI. This system makes it easy to configure any user’s correct access rights to catalogs, schemas, and tables, as well as to elements of the UI itself.

• Built-in access control overview
• - Built-in access control roles
• - Built-in access control privileges
• - Built-in access control masks and filters
• - Built-in access control audit log

User authentication and client security

When setting up a new cluster, start with simple password file authentication. Once access to your cluster is secured, SEP provides a number of production-level options for authenticating users such as LDAP, Okta or OAuth 2.0.

• Authentication types
• - Password files
• - LDAP
• - LDAP group provider
• - SCIM user and group synchronization
• - Salesforce
• - OAuth2 over HTTPS
• - OAuth2 providers
• - Okta
• - Kerberos
• - Certificate
• - JWT

SEP also offers several options for delegated authorization. These pass-through features guarantee that SEP uses the same token as a user directly accessing a data source.

• - Password pass-through
• - OAuth 2.0 token pass-through
• - Kerberos credential pass-through

Once authenticated, users are authorized by one of SEP’s available access control systems, including our comprehensive built-in access control.

Client security is covered in our clients documentation.

Cluster security

Cluster security topics cover both securing external client access to your SEP cluster, and internal communications between cluster resources. Secrets are available for use in any configuration file throughout SEP to provide a secure means of managing values such as usernames, passwords and other strings used in the cluster through your provisioning system.

• TLS and HTTPS
• - PEM files
• - JKS files
• Secure internal communication
• Secrets

Third-party access control

If your organization uses Immuta, SEP integrates with this access control system.

• Immuta

Miscellaneous security options

Learn about other security options that may apply to your environment.

• System access control
• File system access control
• File-based group provider
• User impersonation
• User mapping
• Query audit