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6.0 Platform
Provides a brief overview of what the MapR data platform is and how you can use it to solve enterprise business needs.
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Security Capabilities
Describes authentication, authorization, and encryption capabilities. A secure MapR environment is predicated on authentication, authorization, and encryption capabilities.

MapR 6.0 Documentation

6.0 Platform
Provides a brief overview of what the MapR data platform is and how you can use it to solve enterprise business needs.
- MapR-XD
- MapR-DB
  MapR-DB is an enterprise-grade, high-performance, NoSQL database management system. You can use it for real-time, operational analytics capabilities.
- MapR-ES
  MapR-ES brings integrated publish and subscribe messaging to the MapR Converged Data Platform.
- Cluster Management
- Security
  - Security Capabilities
    Describes authentication, authorization, and encryption capabilities. A secure MapR environment is predicated on authentication, authorization, and encryption capabilities.
    - Built-in Security in MapR
      Introduces a new security setting for MapR platform and ecosystem security.
    - Custom Security in MapR
      Describes the .customSecure file and how MapR 6.x handles custom security settings.
    - Authentication in MapR
      Describes robust MapR authentication that prevents third parties from representing themselves as legitimate users.
    - Authorization in MapR
      Describes the basics of authorization including Access Control Lists and Access Control Expressions.
    - Encryption in MapR
      Describes encryption types available on the MapR Converged Data Platform.
    - Impersonation in MapR
      Describes impersonation in MapR, which allows centralized control of access to resources in the MapR-FS, MapR-DB, and MapR-ES.
    - Auditing in MapR
      MapR allows you to log audit records of cluster-administration operations and operations on directories, files, and tables.
  - Security Architecture
    Describes how the design of the MapR security architecture takes into account the main threats to a secure cluster. By default, MapR provides basic authorization functionality and some authentication.
  - Ports Used for Secure Services
    Lists the ports used by web interfaces for secure Hadoop 2 services
- YARN
- Client Connections

Security Capabilities

Describes authentication, authorization, and encryption capabilities. A secure MapR environment is predicated on authentication, authorization, and encryption capabilities.

Authentication: Restricting access to a specified set of users. Robust authentication prevents third parties from representing themselves as legitimate users.
Authorization: Restricting an authenticated user's capabilities on the system. MapR provides sophisticated authorization controls to ensure that users can perform only the activities for which they have permissions, such as data access, job submission, cluster administration, etc. These permissions can be granted by an administrator via the browser-based MapR Control System (MCS) management and monitoring interface or command line utilities.
Encryption: Restricting an external party's ability to read data. Data transmission between nodes in a secure MapR cluster is encrypted, preventing an attacker with access to that communication from gaining information about the transmission's contents.