Helping Reach a Zero Trust Network Using an Istio Service Mesh

Paul Klinker
ITNEXT
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8 min readSep 1, 2020

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I recently dropped my freshman daughter off at her college dorm for the fall semester — in the age of COVID-19 the dorms are open, but the classes are all online. Like many dorms, the entrances to the halls had locks, as well as the individual dorm rooms. Just because you can get into the dorm, doesn’t mean you can get into every room. This setup got me thinking about Zero Trust and…

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Paul is a Principal Engineer at ManTech specializing in DevOps and enterprise software development.