HPCC Systems 10 Year Open Source Anniversary Discussion with Russ Whitehead and Kevin Wang

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The fourth episode of the Platform team mini-series includes interviews from Russ Whitehead, Architect, LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group and Kanghua “Kevin” Wang, Sr Consulting SWE, LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group talking about the importance of security in the HPCC Systems platform. Our host, Flavio Villanustre, VP Technology & CISO, LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group, begins with asking Russ about the early days before the platform was open source. Russ joined the company in 2008 and has always been working on the HPCC Systems platform. He explains the moment the decision was made to make the platform available to the open source community, security would become his major focus going forward. Kevin joined the company a few years earlier in 2005, and to this day, his primary responsibility is ESP services for ECL Watch.

Russ explains there was a lot of pertinent security changes that needed to happen in order to accommodate the open source community. Working together, Russ put into place a security manager framework which leverages Kevin’s user management service for robust authentication. Over time, this team has expanded the framework to accommodate pluggable security managers in which the community can customize permissions, roles, exceptions and other security features to meet their needs.

With the move to the cloud, both Russ and Kevin are working on new security models for better cloud support, which also aligns with our upcoming 8.0 release. Users will see extended ESP functionality for working with containers for improved deployment and performance. We all know that security is vital when it comes to protecting your data and environment. Our community relies heavily on our Security SMEs, Russ and Kevin, who help make HPCC Systems a mature and compelling solution!