formly secure millions of microservice endpoints in its production environment against
external
attacks 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 authentication is based on the same principles.</p><p>The version 0.1 release of Istio authentication runs on Kubernetes and provides the following features:</p><ul><li><p>Strong identity assertion between services</p