Awarded for completing Service Mesh Security: Mutual TLS and Traffic Policy at Scale and passing its exam, demonstrating the ability to reason about mesh data and control plane security, mutual authentication and certificate rotation, traffic policy design, and a staged, evidence-based approach to mesh adoption and hardening.
Certificates are designed to be checked, not just displayed.
The credential is valid for 12 months from issue. Its public page states the expiry date, and renewing means passing the current exam again — so the credential always reflects the current material.
