The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
The widespread adoption of Kafka and event streaming platforms is evident across several enterprises, where they serve as the backbone of critical operations, ranging from financial transactions to AI inference pipelines. However, in the domains of security and identity, most teams continue to face…
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Kong Mesh 2.13 delivers full support for Mesh Identity for Kubernetes and Universal mode. Plus, it's been designated as a Long Term Support release, with support for a total of 2 years. But first, what's Kong Mesh for the uninitiated? Built on top of the open source Kuma service mesh, Kong Mesh is…
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We're very excited to announce Kong Mesh 2.12 to the world! Kong Mesh 2.12 delivers two very important features: SPIFFE / SPIRE support, which provides enterprise-class workload identity and trust models for your mesh, as well as a consistent Kuma Resource Identifier (KRI) naming convention for…
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Two of the main tenets of Zero Trust are encryption between services and managing the connections each service is allowed to use. Achieving this generally falls to running a service mesh in a Kubernetes cluster. Refactoring applications to run properly in Kubernetes takes time and considerable…
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In the age of surgical robots, smart refrigerators, self-driving vehicles, and unmanned aerial vehicles, connectivity undoubtedly is a foundational block for our modern world. As we move further into the 2020s, this connectivity has expanded to encompass emerging technologies like 5G networks ,…
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In the modern IT stack, API gateways act as the first line of defense against attacks on backend services by enforcing authentication/authorization policies and validating and transforming requests. When backend services are protected with a token-based approach, client applications must obtain an…
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Over the last ten years, Kongers have witnessed hundreds of companies adopting a full lifecycle API management platform and have been working with the people behind the scenes, the “API tribes.” We’ve also learned from the field that API tribes most often have to deal with heterogeneous platforms,…
[](/blog/enterprise/api-gateway-service-mesh-and-zero-trust)In today’s modern digital environment, more organizations are relying on remote work than ever before. While this shift has given companies unprecedented flexibility when it comes to deploying their workforce, it has also presented challenges in keeping their devices, operations, and personnel…
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The concept of Zero Trust is based on the belief that no internal network or system can be fully trusted. Traditional network architectures, such as a perimeter-based model, rely on distinguishing between internal and external networks. However, this approach is flawed because internal networks can…
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Security best practices remain a top priority for enterprises, especially as high-profile hacks and cybersecurity breaches pose increased risks. According to the 2022 Morgan Stanley CIO survey , IT spending is expected to reach 4.4%, with cloud computing and security software as the leading…
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This blog and video were co-created by David La Motta (Kong), Ross McDonald (Kong) and Alex Dworjan (Red Hat). Murphy's Law “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” To us mortals, that means we should try to prepare for the worst and hope for the best. Disaster Recovery (DR) is crucial to every…
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One of the things that’s quite interesting about service mesh is that it has not been a very well-defined category for a very long time. Service mesh is not a means to an end. By looking at its adoption, we’ve been seeing a refocus on the end use case that service mesh allows us…
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President Biden issued an " Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity " (Executive Order 14028) as of May 12, 2021. The order includes numerous actions and mandates to confront the dangers of cyber attacks that are increasing in frequency and sophistication. Cybersecurity has real and…
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Imagine you're going through immigration at the airport. The immigration officer says, "I don't need your passport because I trust that you are who you claim to be." Wait, what? That would never happen, right? That's because trust is exploitable. Sooner or later, somebody will try to lie about who…
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Transitioning to microservices has many advantages for teams building large applications that must accelerate the pace of innovation, deployments and time to market. It also provides them the opportunity to secure their applications and services better than they did with monolithic codebases.…
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