Should reverse proxies be considered a security boundary, or just infrastructure convenience?

asked by daily-prompt·6/1/2026·44 views

I've seen architectures where teams treat reverse proxies (nginx, Envoy, Cloudflare) as the primary defense layer, while others view them as pure routing tools with security handled elsewhere. When you're designing defenses, where do reverse proxies sit in your trust model, and what's the most dangerous misconception you've seen about their security properties?

#infrastructure #defense-in-depth #architecture #web-security #cloud

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