Apache Kafka

Service scope

Software add-on or extension: No
Cloud deployment model: Public cloud
Service constraints: XXX Druid is a write only database for key facts but dimension hierarchies can be configured dynamically out with the Druid application and brought in for analysis via lookups or joins.
System requirements: Linux only

User support

Email or online ticketing support: Email or online ticketing
Support response times: Depends on SLA, normally within 4 hours
User can manage status and priority of support tickets: Yes
Online ticketing support accessibility: None or don’t know
Phone support: Yes
Phone support availability: 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
Web chat support: No
Onsite support: Yes, at extra cost
Support levels: L1: Tier/Level 1(T1/L1)
Initial support level responsible for basic customer issues. Gathering formation to
determine the issue by analysing the symptoms and figuring out the underlying problem.
L2: Tier/Level 2(T2/L2)
This is a more in-depth technical support level than Tier I containing experienced and more
knowledgeable personnel on a particular product or service.
L3 Tier/Level 3(T3/L3)
Individuals are experts in their fields and are responsible for not only assisting both Tier I and
Tier II personnel, but with the research and development of solutions to new or unknown
issues.
Severity Definitions
1- Critical: Proven Error of the Product in a production environment. The Product Software
is unusable, resulting in a critical impact on the operation. No workaround is available.
2- Serious: The Product will operate but due to an Error, its operation is severely restricted.
No workaround is available.
3- Moderate: The Product will operate with limitations due to an Error that is not critical to
the overall operation. For example, a workaround forces a user and/or a systems
operator to use a time consuming procedure to operate the system; or removes a nonessential
feature.
4- Due to an Error, the Product can be used with only slight inconvenience.
Support available to third parties: Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

Getting started: Documentation and Training
https://kafka.apache.org/quickstart
Service documentation: Yes
Documentation formats: HTML

PDF
End-of-contract data extraction: All data resides inside the customers cloud/onprem account.
End-of-contract process: Included;
Core Kafka consultancy
Kafka installation and configuration
Kafka tuning
Kafka testing
Security installation and configuration

Excluded;
Kafka support
Kafka upgrades

Using the service

Web browser interface: No
Application to install: No
Designed for use on mobile devices: No
Service interface: No
User support accessibility: None or don’t know
API: No
Customisation available: Yes
Description of customisation: We can accommodate and support custom configuration requests.
User access, roles and authentication are fully configurable.
Cluster size and scale is fully customisable for a clients needs and budget

Scaling

Independence of resources: Kafka can scale horizontally and vertically whilst providing zero downtime and zero data loss.

Analytics

Service usage metrics: No

Resellers

Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

Staff security clearance: Other security clearance
Government security clearance: Up to Developed Vetting (DV)

Asset protection

Knowledge of data storage and processing locations: Yes
Data storage and processing locations: United Kingdom

European Economic Area (EEA)
User control over data storage and processing locations: Yes
Datacentre security standards: Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
Penetration testing frequency: Never
Protecting data at rest: Physical access control, complying with CSA CCM v3.0

Physical access control, complying with SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402

Encryption of all physical media

Scale, obfuscating techniques, or data storage sharding
Data sanitisation process: Yes
Data sanitisation type: Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
Equipment disposal approach: Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001

Data importing and exporting

Data export approach: Various export utils via command line
Data export formats: Other
Other data export formats: JSON
Data import formats: Other
Other data import formats: Text

JSON

YAML

Data-in-transit protection

Data protection between buyer and supplier networks: TLS (version 1.2 or above)

Legacy SSL and TLS (under version 1.2)

Other
Other protection between networks: Can also encrypt prior to transfer
Data protection within supplier network: TLS (version 1.2 or above)

Availability and resilience

Guaranteed availability: Customer dependent.
Approach to resilience: AWS services are delivered from multiple datacentres worldwide. When deploying customer services to AWS, Kafka can be configured such that services span multiple availability zones (data centres) to ensure service resilience. Alternatively, our Disaster Recovery as a Service offer can be used to provide DR.
Outage reporting: AWS Cloudwatch alerts can be created

Identity and authentication

User authentication needed: Yes
User authentication: Username or password
Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels: Access to management interfaces and support channels is restricted through a combination of username and passwords, multifactor authentication, firewalling, IP restrictions, the use of bastion hosts as appropriate.
Access restriction testing frequency: At least once a year
Management access authentication: 2-factor authentication

Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)

Username or password

Audit information for users

Access to user activity audit information: Users have access to real-time audit information
How long user audit data is stored for: User-defined
Access to supplier activity audit information: Users have access to real-time audit information
How long supplier audit data is stored for: User-defined
How long system logs are stored for: User-defined

Standards and certifications

ISO/IEC 27001 certification: No
ISO 28000:2007 certification: No
CSA STAR certification: No
PCI certification: No
Cyber essentials: Yes
Cyber essentials plus: No
Other security certifications: No

Security governance

Named board-level person responsible for service security: Yes
Security governance certified: Yes
Security governance standards: Other
Other security governance standards: Cyber Essentials
Information security policies and processes: Millersoft Kafka service follows AWS best practice on security https://aws.amazon.com/security/. We have a range of technical and organisational measures to ensure data security and protection. These cover Access, Roles and Responsibilities, Resource/asset management, Access Control & Authentication, Workstation & Device Security, Network/Communications Security, Back-up, mobile/portable device security, and physical security of our premises. Staff training and awareness is ongoing, staff / contractors must sign confidentiality and privacy statements and read and sign company security policy. Sanctions are applicable for non-compliance. Our reporting structure if a security breach happens or is suspected: staff are trained to and required to immediately flag to DPO and CEO and lock down or isolate the breach where feasible; DPO/CEO will take immediate action including isolation or lock down of affected systems, notification to affected parties, implementation of business continuity and disaster recovery. Risk impact reviews are conducted when a new data category is processed, or system implemented, and security measures adapted as necessary. Category logs, training logs, access logs, and breach logs are maintained, reviewed and signed off periodically by the assigned DPO and CEO.

Operational security

Configuration and change management standard: Supplier-defined controls
Configuration and change management approach: All code is under version control using git
Jenkins is used to build releases
An automated test framework is used for integration testing
Changes are tracked via jira
Cloudformation is used to deploy via AWS Marketplace
Vulnerability management type: Undisclosed
Vulnerability management approach: Solution is deployed into customer's AWS VPC via AWS Cloudformation
External access is configured via customer and GUI is locked down via AWS security groups
SSH access is also locked down via security group and PEM file.
The access is as secure as the customers network.
Patches are in the form of new AWS AMIs
Protective monitoring type: Supplier-defined controls
Protective monitoring approach: All logs go to AWS Cloudwatch for auditing, monitoring and alerting
Incident management type: Supplier-defined controls
Incident management approach: Each instance runs within a VPC within the customers AWS Account. There is no external access or monitoring. Issues need to be reported to the supplier and logs supplied for external analysis.

Secure development

Approach to secure software development best practice: Supplier-defined process

Public sector networks

Connection to public sector networks: No

Tackling economic inequality: Tackling economic inequality

In respect of MAC2 (2.2 & 2.3), Millersoft will commit and can demonstrate existing comittment to providing employment and training opportunities to young people, sourced, whenever possible, from the deprived local area. Our recruitment efforts focus on providing local technology students studying in the nearby universities of Edinburgh, Heriot Watt, and Napier with internships that provide work experience, mentoring and training in bleeding edge IT. The ultimate goal of this effort is to provide the internee with full-time employment on completion of their studies. We have contacts in the local universities and liaise over upcoming opportunities. We match these against student skills and goals to identify suitable candidates whom we shortlist for interview. Successful applicants are onboarded, allocated to client projects, given objectives, and a training & development plan that includes skills acquisition related to the project(s) to be worked on, and timescales for the delivery of training and goal attainment. The plan is regularly reviewed and updated by the director or the mentor assigned to the internee. Examples include AWS Practitioner & Technician Certifications, Data Vault Engineer, Apache Druid. Iternees have worked a range of projects including, recently, build of a sales/ ticketing system for a lottery operator in South America, a solution to automate the build of data lakes on AWS, streaming services using Apache Spark and Druid at a card payments processor to process fraud data. As part of any contract tender we will include these initiatives and the methods and processes described to attract, train and retain young employees from our local area. As part skills assessment and subject to specific project needs we can assign internees directly onto projects where they will be mentored by experienced professionals, or if the project requires more experienced staff, bring in internees to provide supervised cover on existing projects.

Pricing

Price: £800 a unit a day
Discount for educational organisations: No
Free trial available: No

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Apache Kafka

Features

Benefits

Pricing

Service documents

Framework

Service ID

Contact

Service scope

User support

Onboarding and offboarding

Using the service

Scaling

Analytics

Resellers

Staff security

Asset protection

Data importing and exporting

Data-in-transit protection

Availability and resilience

Identity and authentication

Audit information for users

Standards and certifications

Security governance

Operational security

Secure development

Public sector networks

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Pricing

Service documents