Security
Notifying Riak

Data security is an important and sensitive issue. A real-world approach to security allows us to balance appropriate levels of security and related overhead while creating a fast, scalable, and operationally straightforward database.

Continuous Improvement

Though we make every effort to thwart security vulnerabilities whenever possible, no system is completely secure. We will never claim that Riak is 100% secure (and you should seriously doubt anyone who claims their solution is). What we can promise is that we openly accept all vulnerabilities from the community. When appropriate, we’ll publish and make every attempt to quickly address these concerns.

Balance

More layers of security increase operational and administrative costs. Sometimes those costs are warranted, sometimes they are not. Our approach is to strike an appropriate balance between effort, cost, and security.

For example, Riak does not have fine-grained role-base security. Though it can be an attractive bullet-point in a database comparison chart, you’re usually better off finely controlling data access through your application or a service layer.

Contact Riak

If you discover a potential security issue, please email us at security@riak.com, and allow us 48 hours to reply.

We appreciate the effort of the community working with us to create the most secure solution we can. This allows us to open a dialogue with the security community on how best to handle a possible exploit without putting any users at risk.

For sensitive topics, you may send a secure message. The security team has the following GPG key:

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