3 years ago

Category: Business, Security, Infrastructure, firewall, encryption

Are service meshes overhyped, or do they solve a real puzzle for enterprise IT systems? Service meshes are a relatively new technology, and many people have found it challenging to fit them into predefined tooling categories.

Because it’s attached as a sidecar acting as a micro-dataplane for every component within the service mesh, it can add encryption and access controls to communication to and from services, even if neither are natively supported by that service.

With an agnostic service mesh to bridge environments, organizations can segment networks in a way that still creates a seamless experience for users and doesn’t become too complex for security teams to manage effectively.

This includes the ability to track the origin and destination of every request sent through the mesh, which is important both for security as well as for passing compliance audits.