Security sometimes creates Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD), and many times, it results in unnecessary controls that hamper productivity. Sadly, breaches do still occur. Major corporations have a chief information security officer, but often, the focus is on putting locks and controls in the wrong places and not knowing which backdoors are wide open. Security breaches can harm the reputation of a company and can cause huge financial damage. A recent example is a fine of $148 million that was imposed on a ride-sharing company, which failed to report the security breach to the Federal Trade Commission. The hackers, in this case, found AWS credentials in their GitHub repository and stole the data of millions of people from an AWS S3 bucket.
The security in Istio is enterprise-grade. You must have noticed the granular nature of security at the namespace level. You have also...
