Backend & systems·Security and identity
you terminate TLS at the edge and then have to decide whether the internal hop after it is plaintext.
Encryption in transit
Also calledTLS, HTTPS
Protecting data moving over a network, in practice TLS. The interesting question is where it terminates: many systems encrypt to the load balancer and run plaintext behind it, which assumes the internal network is trusted. Zero-trust architectures reject that assumption, which is the argument for mTLS between services.