trol plane. Since 1.7,
Istio by default secures all control plane communication and many configuration
options mentioned in the report to manage control plane encryption are no longer
required.</p><p>The debug endpoint mentioned in the report is enabled by default (as of Istio
1.10) to allow users to debug their Istio service mesh using the <code>istioctl</code> tool.
It can be disabled by setting the environment variable <code>ENABLE_DEBUG_ON_HTTP</code> to
false as mentioned in the <a href=/v1.26/docs/ops