// Hacker Noon · 25 March 2026

We Went Zero-Trust and Our Deploy Frequency Dropped 34%

We rolled out zero-trust architecture across 60 microservices — mTLS, SPIRE workload identity, OPA policy enforcement, no static credentials. Security incidents dropped 87%. Deploy frequency dropped 34%, mean deploy time doubled from 22 to 47 minutes, and we burned roughly $340K in engineering produ...

Hacker Noon

@hacker-noon · Dinesh Kumar Elumalai

hackernoon.com

Hacker Noon@hacker-noon