Kubernetes Architect | Integration Expert | TIBCO Guru

You have ten microservices running in Kubernetes. Each one validates JWTs, checks scopes, maintains sessions, and implements its own RBAC rules. One team uses jsonwebtoken v8, another uses a custom Go library, a third rolled their own HMAC check because “it was simple.” They all accept alg: none. Three accept RS256 and HS256 simultaneously. This is not a security posture. This is a distributed security liability — and Kubernetes makes the problem worse, because the cluster creates an illusion of isolation that encourages teams to treat each Pod as a security boundary it was never designed to be. The pattern…