Policy Everywhere: Zero Trust API Security through Embedded Enforcement in Microservice Meshes

Authors

  • Damodhara Reddy Palavali,Suneetha Pothireddy Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48047/ijiee.2023.13.4.10

Keywords:

Zero Trust Architecture, Microservices, API Security, mTLS, OAuth2, JWT, Istio, OPA, Service Mesh, API Gateway, Access Control, Distributed Systems Security

Abstract

The widespread adoption of microservices in cloud-native architectures has exposed fundamental limitations in conventional API security mechanisms that rely on perimeter-based trust and static token models such as OAuth2 and JWT. These legacy approaches, predicated

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Published

20.05.2023

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 4 (2023): volume 13 issue 4(2023)

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Policy Everywhere: Zero Trust API Security through Embedded Enforcement in Microservice Meshes . (2023). International Journal of Information and Electronics Engineering, 13(4), 104-118. https://doi.org/10.48047/ijiee.2023.13.4.10