John Howard, Senior Software Engineer at Solo.io, explains that the biggest challenge in Kubernetes security isn't features but adoption.

He shares how Ambient Mesh originated from users repeatedly requesting "just mTLS" without the overhead of full-service mesh implementation. The team designed Ambient Mesh with compatibility and low footprint as core principles - it doesn't modify traffic patterns, works with any application, and can be deployed cluster-wide without breaking existing workloads. John emphasizes that establishing baseline security everywhere must precede implementing advanced features like sophisticated authorization policies or AI-based anomaly detection.

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