Mutual TLS and SASL secure connections, but EU enterprises still need stronger access controls, secret management, and audit trails.
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Security from the beginning.
It is part of the architecture.
You keep control.
Your data stays in your environment and jurisdiction.
Nothing is invisible.
Every governance action is logged and traceable.
European by design.
EU data protection standards are built in from the start.
DIY Kafka works until it doesn’t. Axual Streaming provides the operational stability, governance, and performance enterprise architects need not just at launch.
Update policies, workflows, and controls through configuration without disrupting data flows.
Kafka ACLs alone can fail to prevent teams from accessing data they should not see.
Authentication logs do not provide complete proof of who accessed what, when, and why.
Securing brokers, clients, schema registries, REST proxies, and connector credentials requires consistent controls across every component.
Uncontrolled schema changes can break downstream systems. Production environments need compatibility rules and approval controls.
Axual builds security into every layer, including identity and access, network isolation, and audit trails, from day one.
Multi-cluster sync for topics, schemas, and offsets; HTTPS access via REST Proxy.
Axual controls access by team, environment, and operation. Finance can own payment topics, developers can have full access in development and read only access in production, and schema changes can require owner approval.
Credentials never appear in configuration files. HashiCorp Vault stores and rotates certificates, keys, and connector passwords. Infrastructure teams do not need access to production credentials.
Network isolation, mTLS, certificate management, and separation between data and control planes protect each component. Each service is reachable only by the components that need it.
Financial services need MiFID II audit trails. Healthcare needs patient data controls. Energy needs critical infrastructure protection. Government needs data sovereignty guarantees.What this means in practice:
Security requirements keep changing as EU regulations expand, threats evolve, and auditors demand more. Axual is designed to adapt without adding layers of patches.
Discover why Europe's energy companies, financial services firms, and government agencies rely on Axual for mission-critical operations.
Grid stability, data exchange, and mission-critical reliability from a proven data streaming architecture that's trusted by leading TSOs, DSOs, and utility companies.
In HashiCorp Vault — never in configuration files, environment variables, or plaintext anywhere in the platform. Certificates, keys, and connector passwords are retrieved on-demand by the Axual Platform Manager, and rotate automatically without downtime.
Through Keycloak. Your identity provider becomes Kafka's identity provider — users authenticate with corporate credentials, permissions sync from your existing AD/group structure, and your organization's password and MFA policies apply automatically.
Genuine zero trust: network isolation by design, mTLS everywhere with self-managing certificates, and a clean separation between the data plane and control plane. Components like ZooKeeper are reachable only where actually needed, not broadly exposed and access-controlled after the fact.
Every governance action is logged: topic and schema changes, access grants, connector deployments. This is designed to answer real audit questions (who accessed what, when, and under whose approval) — not just "who logged in."
No — it's scoped self-service. Developers can provision topics or request credentials instantly, but every action happens inside RBAC boundaries your organization defines, and every action is logged. Speed and control aren't a trade-off here.
Fully on-premises or private cloud deployment is supported end to end — identity, secrets management, RBAC, and audit logging all run within your own infrastructure.
