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Insecure Transit - Microservice Security
Summary
Sam Newman outlines some of the key challenges associated with microservice architectures with respect to security, and then looks at approaches to address these issues. From secret stores, time-limited credentials and better backups, to confused deputy problems, JWT tokens and service meshes, he looks at the state of the art for building secure microservice architectures.
Bio
Sam Newman is an independent consultant specializing in helping people ship software fast. He has worked extensively with the cloud, continuous delivery, and microservices and is especially preoccupied with understanding how to more easily deploy working software into production. He is the author of Building Microservices (O’Reilly).
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