The White House’s cybersecurity executive order highlights the security threats facing our country. The rise of hybrid and multi-cloud environments, distributed microservices applications, and container orchestration with Kubernetes all imply a need for zero-trust application networking that operates consistently and comprehensively in diverse heterogeneous environments. API gateways and service meshes should include features like mutual transport layer encryption (TLS and mTLS), the ability to manage secrets (credentials), a built-in web- application firewall (WAF), data loss prevention (DLP), extensible certificate-based authentication (including API Keys) and LDAP)
Source: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2021/05/24/how-to-implement-cybersecurity-for-modern-application-connectivity/