Is Istio the Most Next Gen Next Gen Firewall Ever Created?
Istio is emerging as a popular service mesh layer for cloud native apps and it delivers a variety of great features for devops scenarios. While security is one of its core tenets, Istio has far more p …
| Talk Title | Is Istio the Most Next Gen Next Gen Firewall Ever Created? |
| Speakers | John Morello (CTO, Twistlock) |
| Conference | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America |
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| Location | Seattle, WA, USA |
| Date | Dec 9-14, 2018 |
| URL | Talk Page |
| Slides | Talk Slides |
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Istio is emerging as a popular service mesh layer for cloud native apps and it delivers a variety of great features for devops scenarios. While security is one of its core tenets, Istio has far more potential than simply providing a secure wire transport between services. Its deep knowledge of the application layer, awareness of service concepts, and integrated service authentication mechanisms make it well suited for not just encrypting traffic flows but enforcing a least privilege connectivity model. In this session, we’ll talk about how putting all these capabilities together can result in a truly Next Gen NGFW that’s not just optimized for cloud native scenarios, but actually delivers better security because of them.
