Towards a Security Benchmark for the Architectural Design of Microservice Applications
Publikationstyp
Conference Paper
Date Issued
2022-08
Sprache
English
Institut
Article Number
116
Citation
17th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2022)
Contribution to Conference
Publisher DOI
Scopus ID
ISBN of container
978-145039670-7
The microservice architecture presents many challenges from a security perspective, due to the large amount of services, leading to an increased attack surface and an unmanageble cognitive load for security analysts. Several benchmarks exist to guide the secure configuration of the deployment infrastructure for microservice applications, including containers (e.g., Docker), orchestration systems (e.g., Kubernetes), cloud platforms (e.g., AWS), and even operating systems (e.g., Linux). In this paper we approach the creation of a benchmark for the design of the microservice applications themselves. To this aim, we inventorize a number of relevant security rules for the architectural design of microservice applications and assess (in a preliminary way) how these rules could be checked automatically.
Subjects
architecture
constraints
microservices
rules
security