Microservices Security

Microservices security is the specialized practice of protecting applications built with a microservices architecture, where an application is composed of many small, independent, and loosely coupled services. Unlike traditional monolithic security which focuses on a strong perimeter, this discipline addresses an expanded attack surface where each service and its API is a potential vulnerability. Key concerns include securing service-to-service communication (east-west traffic), implementing robust authentication and authorization for every API call, managing secrets across distributed components, and hardening the underlying container and orchestration platforms, ultimately aiming for a "zero-trust" model where no component is trusted by default.

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2. Identity and Access Management (IAM)