Top 10 Security Best Practices to secure your Microservices
summary
Ten concrete defenses: enforce TLS 1.2 with strong cipher suites; authenticate with short‑lived certs, mutual TLS, OAuth/OIDC and JWTs; do fine‑grained authorization (scopes, RBAC or XACML); apply rate limiting and throttling per client; centralize logging and alerts (ELK/Splunk) and use API gateway for token checks; design network segmentation and multi‑region resiliency (active‑active or active‑passive); keep keys in HSM or vault solutions, hash passwords, tokenize PCI, encrypt sensitive fields; validate inputs, harden CI/CD, patch and pen‑test regularly.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:46Agenda
- 1:24Objective
- 1:46Microservices Architecture
- 3:23Application Architecture
- 4:29Application Teams
- 5:50Top 10 Best Practices
- 6:01Use TLS
- 9:37Authentication
- 12:45Authorization
- 15:50Ratelimiting
- 18:32Logging
- 20:20Network Architecture
- 24:19Resilience
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