The Path From Open Source to Enterprise-Grade Capabilities
Beyond Open Source Limits
Open source tools like Istio and Envoy offer a strong foundation; however, they demand heavy configuration, tuning, and manual grind.
Open Source is a Starting Point, Not the Destination
The Roadblocks Holding Back Open Source Implementations
Open source tools and libraries used in a zero trust DIY pipeline lack security, compliance, and performance that enterprises expect. As environments scale, teams face rising complexity, security gaps, and production maintenance that drain resources from innovation. The most critical risk comes from self-managed infrastructure that blindly introduces third-party software into production—without visibility, validation, or awareness of immediate supply chain threats.
Left unchecked, these risks evolve from technical debt into enterprise liability. Here’s where DIY zero trust architectures cost more and break—hard.
DIY ZTN = Fragmented Nightmares
Open source stacks lack management tooling, upgrade paths, or patching strategies. That means your teams are stuck maintaining infrastructure instead of delivering customer value. At scale, this balloons—just to keep traffic flowing and certificates from expiring.
Endless Maintenance. Zero Efficiency
Keeping operations secure and connected devours DevOp teams capacity. Engineers get stuck in YAML sprawl, constant problem solving, and outage handling, while multiple clusters only add more complexity.
Compliance is a Constant Slog
Every open source component demands custom hardening, tracking, and controls. That’s time your engineers aren’t spending improving your products or advancing mission objectives.
Scaling Breaks Without Automation
Default service mesh configurations choke at scale, causing latency, outages, and poor user experiences. Without intelligent orchestration, an enterprise faces traffic delays, performance slowdowns, and production fires.
The Result?
High risks, costs, and maintenance to your architectures, slowing innovation and increasing security exposure.
A Smarter, Faster, and More Secure Path to Enterprise-Grade Zero Trust Service Connectivity
The Proven Framework for Scaling Open Source to Enterprise Grade Operations
Greymatter provides a path from open source service mesh to enterprise Zero Trust Networking. Whether you’re augmenting your existing stack or transitioning to a fully managed solution, our implementation framework delivers the automation, security, and control you need—without the complexity.
Phase 1: Open Source Adoption & Early Scaling
How Greymatter Delivers:
- Integrate with existing enterprise investments, immediately enhancing zero trust posture without requiring re-architecture.
- Eliminate manual toil from day one removing the need for ops teams to script cert rotations or write specific code to integrate with identity and observability systems.
- Deliver native telemetry and audit pipelines, integrating with existing observability stacks or provisioning one if you need it.
Typical outcome: 60% reduction in configuration and immediate visibility across services.
Phase 2: Securing and Automating Service Connectivity
How Greymatter Delivers:
- Automate mTLS across services and clusters including the management of NPE certificates with zero user config.
- Auto-enforce FIPS and military grade zero trust policies natively — across all workloads.
- Use declarative policies, Greymatter simplifies governance, audibility, and automation without YAML sprawl or special annotations.
Typical outcome: Consistent security policies across all environments with 75% less manual setup and a 30–50% drop in CVE patching and hardened defaults.
Phase 3: Enterprise Grade Management & Observability
How Greymatter Delivers:
- Unify distributed control planes, traffic, policy, and insights, removing the need for embedded boilerplate config and tool stitching.
- Detect and respond to service failures based on orchestrated outcomes, reducing MTTR.
- Automate with intent-driven networking policy execution and built-in failure-handling logic, Greymatter eliminates the need for brittle scripts or manual triage.
Typical outcome: 70% faster incident resolution and comprehensive security.
Phase 4: Full Enterprise Service Connectivity & Zero Trust Modernization
How Greymatter Delivers:
- Replace fragmented platform tooling with an integrated Zero Trust Networking platform that includes certificate automation, traffic control, and policy enforcement—all managed through a single workflow.
- Apply policies and governance consistently across services and APIs, with no developer changes required.
- Operate across multiple clouds, hybrid clouds, or on-prem enclaves.
Typical outcome: 55–75% cost reduction vs. open source stacks with integrated tooling.
Phase 5: Performance & Scalability Optimization
How Greymatter Delivers:
- Eliminate traffic bottlenecks with intelligent routing, health checks, rate-limiting, and traffic control.
- Optimize service-to-service communication across cloud regions and providers, maintaining encryption and performance without user tuning.
- Reduce downtime with automated failover and self-healing network policies keeping systems resilient.
Typical outcome: 40% improved service performance and high availability across environments.
Phase 6: Continuous Compliance & Future-Proofing
How Greymatter Delivers:
- Ensure long term regulatory compliance through enforcement of security standards.
- Provides security insights for auditing, threat vectors, and risk.
- Keep service connectivity future-ready ensuring with current CVE patching and a managed, trusted supply chain.
Typical outcome: 85% reduction in compliance preparation reporting.
Don’t Be Fooled by Other
Open Source Solutions
Other open source service meshes promise flexibility but deliver operation complexity, security gaps, and risks that enterprises and defense organizations can’t afford.
Feature
Greymatter Advantage
Open Source Challenges
Defense Certification
Native support for NIST, FIPS, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and more with automated PKI/mTLS
None
Security & Compliance
Ironclad NIST Zero Trust, automated NPE certificates, FIPS encryption
None
Automation
Agentic ZTN Infrastructure with playbook automation
YAML sprawl and manual configs lead to endless maintenance
Supply Chain Visibility
Full observability mitigates supply chain threats
Blindly introduces third party risks, lacking validation
Operational Efficiency
Unified platform
Fragmented stacks lack upgrade oaths
Training & Support
Provides SI teams with certification and support
None
Cost
Annual license. Predictable cost model and bundles built for enterprise scale
Custom and recurring engineering and upkeep, grows the complexity
Secure Your Infrastructure While Accelerating Innovation
Greymatter delivers the enterprise grade security, compliance, and automation your organization needs—without the operational complexity that slows you down.