Re: Security assessment of Cassandra

2016-02-16 Thread oleg yusim
Greetings, Matt brought to my attention that I shared the document at "view only" mode. My apologies for that. I corrected permissions and shared the document personally with everybody, who indicated he/she would review it. Thanks, Oleg On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 10:33 PM, oleg yu

Re: Security assessment of Cassandra

2016-02-12 Thread oleg yusim
nt/d/13-yu-1a0MMkBiJFPNkYoTd1Hzed9tgKltWi6hFLZbsk/edit?usp=sharing Thanks, Oleg On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 2:29 PM, oleg yusim wrote: > Greetings, > > Performing security assessment of Cassandra with the goal of generating > STIG for Cassandra (iase.disa.mil/stigs/Pages/a-z.aspx) I ran across some >

Re: Security labels

2016-02-12 Thread oleg yusim
Jack, I updated my document with all the security gaps I was able to find and posted it there: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13-yu-1a0MMkBiJFPNkYoTd1Hzed9tgKltWi6hFLZbsk/edit?usp=sharing Thanks, Oleg On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 4:09 PM, oleg yusim wrote: > Jack, > > I asked my m

Re: Session timeout

2016-02-12 Thread oleg yusim
ent/d/13-yu-1a0MMkBiJFPNkYoTd1Hzed9tgKltWi6hFLZbsk/edit?usp=sharing Thanks, Oleg On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 3:52 PM, oleg yusim wrote: > Jack, > > This document doesn't cover all the areas where user will need to get > engaged in explicit mitigation, it only covers those, I wa

Re: Security labels

2016-02-11 Thread oleg yusim
at becomes public and when. > > -- Jack Krupansky > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 3:23 PM, oleg yusim wrote: > >> Hi Dani, >> >> As promised, I sort of put all my questions under the "one roof". I would >> really appreciate you opinion on them. >> >

Re: Session timeout

2016-02-11 Thread oleg yusim
ably be good to have > doc to highlight areas where users will need to engage in explicit > mitigation efforts if their infrastructure does not implicitly effect > mitigation for various security exposures. > > -- Jack Krupansky > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 3:21 PM, oleg yusim wrote

Re: Security labels

2016-02-11 Thread oleg yusim
Thanks Dani. Oleg On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Dani Traphagen wrote: > Hi Oleg, > > I'm happy to take a look. Will update after review. > > Thanks, > Dani > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 12:23 PM, oleg yusim wrote: > >> Hi Dani, >> >> As promi

Security assessment of Cassandra

2016-02-11 Thread oleg yusim
Greetings, Performing security assessment of Cassandra with the goal of generating STIG for Cassandra (iase.disa.mil/stigs/Pages/a-z.aspx) I ran across some questions regarding the way certain security features are implemented (or not) in Cassandra. I composed the list of questions on these topic

Re: Security labels

2016-02-11 Thread oleg yusim
Thanks that helped clear things up! This sounds like a daunting task. I > wish you all the best with it. > > Cheers, > Dani​ > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 10:03 AM, oleg yusim wrote: > >> Dani, >> >> I really appreciate you response. Actually, session timeouts and s

Re: Session timeout

2016-02-11 Thread oleg yusim
Robert, Jack, Bryan, As you suggested, I put together document, titled Cassandra_Security_Topics_to_Discuss, put it on Google Drive and shared it with everybody on this list. The document contains list of questions I have on Cassandra, my take on it, and has a place for notes Community would like

Extensions

2016-02-01 Thread oleg yusim
Greetings, Is it a way to find out (list or otherwise) if any extensions were installed with Cassandra base package? Thanks, Oleg

Re: Session timeout

2016-02-01 Thread oleg yusim
ose companies will probably answer some of your questions for free if you > post on these mailing lists. They’ll likely answer even more if you pay > them. > > > > From: oleg yusim > Reply-To: "user@cassandra.apache.org" > Date: Friday, January 29, 2016 at 9:16 AM &g

Re: Security labels

2016-01-29 Thread oleg yusim
Thanks Dani! Oleg On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 3:28 PM, Dani Traphagen wrote: > ​Hi Oleg, > > Thanks that helped clear things up! This sounds like a daunting task. I > wish you all the best with it. > > Cheers, > Dani​ > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 10:03 AM, oleg yusim

Re: Session timeout

2016-01-29 Thread oleg yusim
find something in the doc. > > -- Jack Krupansky > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 5:02 PM, oleg yusim wrote: > >> Jack, >> >> Appreciate the links. As I mentioned, I looked over both DSE and >> Cassandra sets of documentation, and ran some experiments on my Cassan

Re: Session timeout

2016-01-29 Thread oleg yusim
in the software. > > In general, if you see a feature in DSE, just do a keyword search in the > Cassandra doc to see if it is supported outside of DSE. > > -- Jack Krupansky > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 4:23 PM, oleg yusim wrote: > >> Alex, >> >> No offen

Re: Session timeout

2016-01-29 Thread oleg yusim
compensation controls. Thanks, Oleg On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 1:10 PM, Alex Popescu wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 8:17 AM, oleg yusim wrote: > >> Thanks for encouraging me, I kind of grew a bit desperate. I'm security >> person, not a Cassandra expert, and do

Re: Session timeout

2016-01-29 Thread oleg yusim
andra-user and cassandra-dev mailing lists are the primary sources > of knowledge outside of support contracts. For paid support, companies like > Datastax and The Last Pickle tend to be well respected options. Both of > those companies will probably answer some of your qu

Re: Security labels

2016-01-29 Thread oleg yusim
; security client. >> >> DSE has different security aspects rolling out in the next release >> as addressed earlier by Jack, like commit log and hint encryptions, as well >> as, unified authentication...but secuirty labels aren't on anyone's radar >> as a pres

Re: Session timeout

2016-01-29 Thread oleg yusim
be frustrating to not > get answers to questions that seem completely basic and obvious, but you're > asking about areas that *most* people on this list don't have knowledge > about and zero motivation to learn, because it's not necessary to solve the > problems we face.

Re: Security labels

2016-01-29 Thread oleg yusim
assandra/3.x/cassandra/configuration/secureTOC.html > > Also note that on questions of security, DataStax Enterprise may have > different answers than pure open source Cassandra. > > -- Jack Krupansky > > On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 8:37 PM, oleg yusim wrote: > >> Patrick,

Re: Session timeout

2016-01-29 Thread oleg yusim
gt; Carlos Alonso | Software Engineer | @calonso <https://twitter.com/calonso> > > On 29 January 2016 at 14:19, oleg yusim wrote: > >> Not a problem, Carlos, at least you tried :) I have overall a big problem >> with my queries to Cassandra community. Most of them are no

Re: Session timeout

2016-01-29 Thread oleg yusim
to > inactivity... > > Not sure there's such option. Sorry > > Carlos Alonso | Software Engineer | @calonso <https://twitter.com/calonso> > > On 29 January 2016 at 13:35, oleg yusim wrote: > >> Carlos, >> >> I went through Java and Python drivers... did

Re: Session timeout

2016-01-29 Thread oleg yusim
<https://twitter.com/calonso> > > On 29 January 2016 at 13:15, oleg yusim wrote: > >> Hi Carlos, >> >> Thanks for your anwer. Can you, please, get me a bit me information? What >> is the driver? JDBC? What is the name of configuration file? >> >> Thanks

Re: Session timeout

2016-01-29 Thread oleg yusim
tionality. > > Hope it helps. > > Carlos Alonso | Software Engineer | @calonso <https://twitter.com/calonso> > > On 28 January 2016 at 22:18, oleg yusim wrote: > >> Greetings, >> >> Does Cassandra support session timeout? If so, where can I find this &g

Logging connect/disconnect

2016-01-28 Thread oleg yusim
Greetings, What is the right way to configure Cassandra logging, so it would log all the connects and disconnects? Thanks, Oleg

Re: Security labels

2016-01-28 Thread oleg yusim
wrote: > Cassandra has support for authentication security, but I'm not familiar > with a security label. Can you describe what you want to do? > > Patrick > > On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 2:26 PM, oleg yusim wrote: > >> Greetings, >> >> Does Cassandra support s

Security labels

2016-01-28 Thread oleg yusim
Greetings, Does Cassandra support security label concept? If so, where can I read on how it should be applied? Thanks, Oleg

Session timeout

2016-01-28 Thread oleg yusim
Greetings, Does Cassandra support session timeout? If so, where can I find this configuration switch? If not, what kind of hook I can use to write my out code, terminating session in so many seconds of inactivity? Thanks, Oleg

Logging configuration (security)

2016-01-27 Thread oleg yusim
Greetings, I decided to put together a separate thread with logging configuration questions I have (I'm trying to figure out what from security best practices on logging Cassandra can and can't do): 1) Can Cassandra log IP and hostname of the host, DB resides at? 2) Can Cassandra log IP and hostn

Re: Logging

2016-01-27 Thread oleg yusim
Sam, Paulo, One more question on logging. Can I add IP and hostname to the log message? If it is possible, can you give me example of how I would need to change %-5level %date{HH:mm:ss,SSS} %msg%n to add this information? Thanks, Oleg On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 4:42 PM, oleg yusim wrote

Re: Logging

2016-01-26 Thread oleg yusim
which can become quite messy as shown in CASSANDRA-7276. >> >> For CQL statements perhaps the query tracing infrastructure could be >> reused to provide that info, but that would require further investigation. >> See CASSANDRA-1123 for more details on that. >> &g

Re: Logging

2016-01-25 Thread oleg yusim
inherit identifiers from parent threads and cleanup afterwards. See > CASSANDRA-7276 for more background. > > 2016-01-25 12:09 GMT-03:00 oleg yusim : > >> I want to try to re-phrase my question here... what I'm trying to achieve >> is identity-based logging. I.e. every

Re: Logging

2016-01-25 Thread oleg yusim
n Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 2:57 PM, oleg yusim wrote: > Joel, > > Thanks for reference. What I'm trying to achieve, is to add the name of > the user, who initiated logged action. I tried c{5}, but what I see is that; > > TRACE [GossipTasks:1] c{5} 2016-01-21 20:51:17,619 Goss

Re: Logging

2016-01-21 Thread oleg yusim
ml#conversionWord > > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 1:21 PM, oleg yusim wrote: > >> Greetings, >> >> Guys, can you, please, point me to documentation on how to configure >> format of logs? I want make it clear, I'm talking about formatting i.e. >> this: >>

Logging

2016-01-21 Thread oleg yusim
Greetings, Guys, can you, please, point me to documentation on how to configure format of logs? I want make it clear, I'm talking about formatting i.e. this: %-5level %date{HH:mm:ss,SSS} %msg%n What if I want to add another parameters into this string? Is there a list of available parameters her

Re: max connection per user

2016-01-14 Thread oleg yusim
, 2016 at 9:04 PM, oleg yusim wrote: > Brian - absolutely. > > To give you are brief description of what I'm doing. I'm working for > VMware as security architect, and they tasked me with creating a STIG > (working with DISA ) for Cassandra DB. To create a STIG I would walk &

Re: Encryption in cassandra

2016-01-14 Thread oleg yusim
ecurity is here: > > https://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra/3.0/cassandra/configuration/secureIntro.html > > > > -- Jack Krupansky > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 5:49 PM, oleg yusim wrote: > >> Jack, >> >> Thanks for your answer. I guess, I'm a little confused

Re: Encryption in cassandra

2016-01-14 Thread oleg yusim
my mobile > Daemeon C.M. Reiydelle > USA 415.501.0198 > London +44.0.20.8144.9872 > On Jan 14, 2016 5:16 PM, "oleg yusim" wrote: > >> Greetings, >> >> Guys, can you please help me to understand following: >> >> I'm reading through the way keys

Re: Encryption in cassandra

2016-01-14 Thread oleg yusim
> > On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 5:16 PM, oleg yusim wrote: > >> Greetings, >> >> Guys, can you please help me to understand following: >> >> I'm reading through the way keystore and truststore are implemented, and >> it is all fine and great, but at

Encryption in cassandra

2016-01-14 Thread oleg yusim
Greetings, Guys, can you please help me to understand following: I'm reading through the way keystore and truststore are implemented, and it is all fine and great, but at the end Cassandra documentation instructing to extract all the keystore content and leave all certs and keys in a clear. Do I

Re: max connection per user

2016-01-13 Thread oleg yusim
Can you describe what avenues you're expecting either intrusion or DOS? > > On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 6:01 PM, oleg yusim wrote: > >> OK Rob, I see what you saying. Well, let's dive into the long questions >> and answers at this case a bit: >> >> 1) Is there

Re: max connection per user

2016-01-13 Thread oleg yusim
, but what be suggested value not to exceed? Thanks, Oleg On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 6:31 PM, Robert Coli wrote: > On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 1:41 PM, oleg yusim wrote: > >> Quick question, here: does Cassandra have a configuration switch to limit >> number of connections per user (p

max connection per user

2016-01-13 Thread oleg yusim
Greetings, Quick question, here: does Cassandra have a configuration switch to limit number of connections per user (protection of DoS attack, security)? Thanks, Oleg