Managing Zero Trust with Istio Authorization Policies in large-scale Kubernetes environments is a constant challenge. Traditional allow/deny lists become unmanageable as deployments grow, leading to security gaps and operational bottlenecks.But what if you could dynamically generate Istio Authorization Policies by directly polling metrics from Envoy sidecars and defining them using Intent-Based Access Control (IBAC)? This would alleviate a lot of the hurdles and allow for healthier, faster growth of your most valuable business applications.Join us in this talk, where we’ll introduce and demonstrate how Otterize has developed an intent-based operator together with an Envoy metrics-driven network mapper operator to make this dream come true! We’ll show you how to define high-level intents for your microservices and let Otterize automatically translate them into granular Istio authorization policies. “Wow effect guaranteed!”