Microservices — OWASP Security Threats

In this article, I am capturing the top ten security threats for microservices based on OWASP — Top Ten. We will look into the definition, example scenarios, and solutions for each of these threats.

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Overview

Microservices Architecture has changed the way applications used to be built, developed, tested, deployed, monitored, and secured. We do not have a single entry point to the system now. The monolith is broken into multiple microservices. In this article, we are going to address the top ten security threats for microservices based on OWASP — API Security Top Ten.

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is an online community that produces freely-available articles, methodologies, documentation, tools, and technologies in the field of web application security. OWASP has many projects, web-application security being the most popular. My focus lies with their other project API Security, which deals with the vulnerabilities and security risks of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). This project has a close resemblance to the nature of microservices.

Here are the top ten security threats listed in the OWASP API Security project. We will be going through…