ds in their own separate namespace.</li><li>Apply the Kubernetes RBAC and network policies to protect the control plane pods.</li><li>Monitor the control plane pods more closely than you do the application pods.</li></ul><p>Once you direct egress traffic through an egress gateway and apply the additional security mechanisms,
you can securely monitor and enforce security policies for the traffic.</p><p>The following diagram shows Istio&rsquo;s security architecture, augmented with an L3 firewall which is par