ions. With Istio Auth, developers and operators can protect services with sensitive data against unauthorized insider access and they can achieve this without any changes to the application code!</p><p>Istio Auth is the security component of the broader <a href=/v1.2/>Istio platform</a>. It incorporates the learnings of securing millions of microservice
endpoints in Google’s production environment.</p><h2 id=background>Background</h2><p>Modern application architectures are increasingly based on shared ser