Zero-Trust Service Meshes: Hardening Kubernetes Ingress with Mutual TLS & SPIFFE
Practical guide to implementing end-to-end cryptographic workload identities and micro-segmentation across hybrid multi-cloud clusters.
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Perimeter-based defense is completely dead. Modern microservices architectures require cryptographic workload identities at every network boundary. We review SPIRE implementation patterns, dynamic certificate rotation cadences, and Envoy proxy filter chains for zero-overhead mutual TLS.
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Staff Security Researcher and Cryptography Lead at Sentinel Security. Author of multiple zero-trust workload identity RFCs and Kubernetes security audits.
Contributing Author affiliated with Sentinel Security Systems