Red Light, Green Light: Traffic Security in the Service Mesh with Istio

Explore how Bloomberg secures traffic in a service mesh using Istio's ingress and egress gateways in this 28-minute conference talk. Learn about applying routing rules and authorization policies to control access to internal and external services, implementing strict Level 7 policies for traffic lockdown, and managing service mesh infrastructure security. Discover the integration of SPIFFE/SPIRE with Istio gateways to secure various services, from critical applications to ML workloads like Jupyter notebooks and inference services in a heterogeneous environment. Gain insights into handling highly-privileged data securely within a financial information company setting, accompanied by engaging visual illustrations.

Red Light, Green Light: Traffic Security in the Service Mesh wi... Alexa Nicole Griffith & Zhenni Fu