Istio: Zero-trust communication security for production services

While adopting microservices leads to increased agility and developer productivity, it also exposes production environments to new security threats. Samrat Ray, Tao Li, and Mak Ahmad explain how Istio helps protect against these emerging security threats to service-based applications.

Conventional network security approaches fail to address security threats to distributed applications deployed in modern production environments. Samrat Ray, Tao Li, and Mak Ahmad explain how Istio Security incorporates lessons learned from securing millions of service endpoints in Google’s production environment to enable enterprises to transform their security posture from just protecting the edge to consistently securing all interservice communications deep within their applications. With Istio Security, developers and operators can enable service endpoint security with no code changes.