Secure Your Service Mesh: A 13-Item Checklist

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Solo.io sponsored this post. When an application is replatformed and rearchitected into distributed microservices, new connectivity patterns emerge, and these patterns usually prompt the building of one or more service meshes.

The best way to approach service mesh security is to adopt a zero-trust model, which means that every connection, no matter its origin, must be validated and secured. To help you evaluate service mesh technologies and implement zero-trust security, we present our 13 must-have features to keep your application connections safe.

Security is one of the core tenets of open source Istio, the most popular service mesh today for Kubernetes.

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