ttacks and insider threats. Key security principles include trusting the endpoints and not the network, strong mutual authentication based on service identity and service level authorization. Istio Auth is based on the same principles.</p><p>The version 0.1 release of Istio Auth runs on Kubernetes and provides the following features:</p><ul><li><p>Strong identity assertion between services</p></li><li><p>Access control to limit the identities that can access a service (and its data)</p></li><li><p>Automatic