he project.</p><p>To achieve this goal, the Istio community contracted the
<a href=https://www.nccgroup.com/>NCC Group</a> last year to
conduct a third-party security assessment of the project. The goal of the review
was &ldquo;to identify security issues related to the Istio code base, highlight
high-risk configurations commonly used by administrators, and provide
perspective on whether security features sufficiently address the concerns they
are designed to provide&rdquo;.</p><p>NCC Group carried out the 