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Protecting your data with a Service Mesh

Protecting your data with a Service Mesh

In this talk, we will see a practical demo on how you can use a Service Mesh and its Identity and Authorization primitives to secure access to your data.

Ignasi Barrera

January 23, 2020
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  1. Tetrate
    The service mesh company

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  2. A
    B
    Traditional access control for databases is provided by
    network reachability and DB credentials
    C

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  3. A
    B
    C
    If an attacker breaks into the system and gains access to
    the network, the data is compromised

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  4. A
    B
    C
    A service mesh provides proper Identity primitives to
    enforce runtime authentication
    Envoy
    Envoy
    Envoy
    Envoy

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  5. A
    B
    C
    It also provides authorization primitives
    to be enforced at runtime
    PEP
    PEP
    PEP
    PEP

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  6. A
    B
    C
    Access decisions can be made based on proper
    identity and high level concepts
    Envoy
    Envoy
    Envoy
    Envoy

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  7. EXAMPLE
    Unauthorized access

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  8. A
    B
    C
    NGAC provides a context-ful
    authorization framework
    Envoy
    Envoy
    Envoy
    Envoy
    NGAC / NDAC
    P
    D
    P

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  9. A
    B
    C
    L7 policies can be enforced, because the proxies
    understand L7 protocols
    Envoy
    Envoy
    Envoy
    Envoy
    NGAC / NDAC
    P
    D
    P

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  10. EXAMPLE
    L7 policy enforcement

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  11. A
    B
    C
    L7 policies can be enforced, because the proxies
    understand L7 protocols
    Envoy
    Envoy
    Envoy
    Envoy
    NGAC / NDAC
    P
    D
    P

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  12. A
    B
    C
    This context-ful framework can be used to enforce
    complex and dynamic policies that are environment-dependent
    Envoy
    Envoy
    Envoy
    Envoy
    NGAC / NDAC
    us-east1
    eu-west2
    P
    D
    P

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  13. EXAMPLE
    Policy combination:
    RBAC + Location + Time

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  14. Thanks

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