Microservice security: a systematic literature review

• Published in: PeerJ. Computer science Vol. 7; p. e779
• Main Authors: Berardi, Davide, Giallorenzo, Saverio, Mauro, Jacopo, Melis, Andrea, Montesi, Fabrizio, Prandini, Marco
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States PeerJ. Ltd 05.01.2022; PeerJ, Inc; PeerJ; PeerJ Inc
• Subjects: Analysis; Computer networks; Computer Science; Correlation analysis; Data security; Datasets; Design; Distributed processing (Computers); Emerging Technologies; Infrastructure; Infrastructure-as-a-service; Literature reviews; Methods; Network security; Programming Languages; Security; Security and Privacy; Service composition; Service deployment; Service discovery; Software development; Software Engineering; Systematic review; Threat model; Web services; Italy; Authentication and authorization; Privacy; Service deployment; Software development; Authentication; Intrusion detection and prevention; Threat model; Service composition; Service discovery; Infrastructure-as-a-service

Microservices is an emerging paradigm for developing distributed systems. With their widespread adoption, more and more work investigated the relation between microservices and security. Alas, the literature on this subject does not form a well-defined corpus : it is spread over many venues and comp...