microservices applications using a service mesh
ABAC, NGAC, Security, Tetrate, Zero Trust

NIST-Tetrate 2021 Conference Talk: ABAC for microservices applications using a service mesh

Access control is fundamental to application security. Modern applications, more than ever, need a flexible access control mechanism that can succinctly express access rules, take into account a large number of objects and dynamic runtime attributes, and be evaluated efficiently at runtime. These rules must also be both intelligible and auditable so the current state of access policy enforcement is knowable and can be easily understood. 

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Zero Trust network for Microservices
Istio, Kubernetes, NGAC, Security, Tetrate Service Bridge, Zero Trust

Implement Zero Trust Network for Microservices using TSB

Today, every major organization is going through a massive digital transformation, adopting cloud, mobile, microservices, and container technologies to deliver services efficiently, meet critical business demands, and catch up with market expectations. Organizations’ Platform and DevOps teams have to model distributed and multi-cloud applications and services accessible from anywhere and anytime to be agile. This has given rise to two significant trends within the organizations:

  1. As a growing number of organizations adopt multi-cloud, they deploy their applications into the public cloud (Google, Amazon, Azure, etc.), which means that the data is out of their perceived safety of on-prem data centers.
  2. Organizations use microservices and distributed architecture to achieve agility and scale. 
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Access
NGAC, Security, Service Mesh, Zero Trust

NGAC vs RBAC vs ABAC

Why You Should Choose NGAC as Your Access Control Model

Different companies or software providers have devised countless ways to control user access to functions or resources, such as Discretionary Access Control (DAC), Mandatory Access Control (MAC), Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), and Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC). In essence, whatever the type of access control model, three basic elements can be abstracted: user, system/application, and policy.

In this article, we will introduce ABAC, RBAC, and a new access control model — Next Generation Access Control (NGAC) — and compare the similarities and differences between the three, as well as why you should consider NGAC.

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