production-ready approach. Having a secured profile with an opinionated cluster configuration will help guide users towards building secured environments. • Expand hardening documentation: While there were a variety Enabled istioctl configuration option • controlPlaneAuthPolicy mesh configuration option Impact Users trying to prevent the Istio control plane will not be able to even following the current guidance this message but if it does in fact provide network security within the control plane, ensure that users know it exists. 6 | Google Istio Security Assessment Google / NCC Group Confidential Finding Lack

vulnerability, however, to be vulnerable, users would need the MultiplexHTTP option configured - used by some managed Istio offerings - which the vast majority of Istio's users do not have. For that reason, a CVE has not been fully deprecated and is likely used in production by the community which makes some users prone to security issues. Furthermore, successful cyber attacks can and do have their entry point but is o�en used on top of Kubernetes. It offers users easy access to features such as observability, traffic management and security without requiring users to add these to their application code. It also

they search through unique and diverse items for lucky finds. In addition to buying and selling, users actively communicate through the buyer/seller chat and the “Like” feature. The Mercari app is a multi-containers pods Stabilizing Istio Both options have their drawbacks, since you need to involve users in the calculation, making it a big blocker in spreading the Istio adoption… The other big problem knowledge of networking : Linux, Kubernetes and Envoy ● Be patient and resisting the temptations from users to open features too early ● Mechanisms to improve the reliability of Istio 30 Choose your fights

tradewinds-2020/ #IstioCon Impact on users https://thenewstack.io/when-service-meshes-can-emerge-from-envoy-istio-shadows/ #IstioCon Listening to our users UX Working Group - Upgrade Survey 2020 #IstioCon Listening to our users ... UX Working Group - Upgrade Survey 2020 Do users on old versions understand their security and support posture? #IstioCon Listening to our users ... UX Working Group operations https://dzone.com/articles/defining-day-2-operations #IstioCon What does it mean for our users? ● Project maturity ○ Move “slowly and fix things” ○ Sustain the tremendous production adoption

higher than other conference months. 18.6% New users to the project from beginning of Jan to end of Feb. 87% Of Istio users are new users at the end of February 2021. Impact for the project

Workshops for providing hands-on practice with specific tools/platforms 3 Listening sessions where users provided feedback on specific developments in the project. Participant feedback The majority date). 383,428 Twitter impressions since event was announced. 81% Of Istio.io users were first-time users during the month of April 2022. Impact for the project Source: http://eng.istio.io/

they will not be deprecated in a future release. Use at your own discretion. ● To enable this, users must set the ECC_SIGNATURE_ALGORITHM environmental variable on sidecar ejection to ECDSA for use environmental variables as used in this talk will continue to be supported through at least 1.10 to allow users to migrate towards this feature #IstioCon Other environmental variables There are many other environmental

discuss.istio.io ● Twitter ● User discussions ● Upgrade survey #IstioCon Common Feedback ● Users found upgrades challenging ● Releases were inconsistent ○ Release and Upgrade Notes ○ Release date major releases and hours to minutes for patch releases. Better communication of what’s important to users and more time saved for developers. #IstioCon Feature Maturity ● Consistent checklist of requirements

massive network capacity, increased availability, and a more uniform user experience to more users. Higher performance and improved efficiency empower new user experiences and connects new industries and tracing for all CNF traffic Enforcement Primitives to Build Zero Trust Strong identity for users, workloads, devices, etc. Encrypting inter-CNF traffic via mutual TLS (mTLS) Option to encrypt

network setup phase, ● Removing the requirement for the NET_ADMIN and NET_RAW capabilities for users deploying pods into the Istio mesh. ● The Istio CNI plugin replaces the functionality provided by