Closing the loop: From network policy intent to verified reality

Part 3 of a series on implementing zero trust security in Red Hat OpenShift with the layered zero trust validated pattern.Kubernetes NetworkPolicies are one of the most powerful—and most misunderstood—security primitives available to platform engineers. They declare intent: “This pod should only accept connections on port 8443 from the ingress namespace.” But declaring intent is not the same as verifying that it works as intended.In the 1st article in this series, we argued that network policies are your last line of defense when you can’t patch fast enough. We showed how the Layered Zero