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Laura Bell
September 03, 2015
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Securing Microservice Architectures
Presented at Microsoft Ignite NZ 2015 by Laura Bell
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September 03, 2015
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Transcript
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Securing Microservice Architectures Laura Bell (@lady_nerd) M239
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Modern
caution: fast paced field ahead watch for out of date
content
In this talk Microservice Fundamentals Some important points that are
worth refreshing Prevention Avoid common vulnerabilities and avoid mistakes Detection Prepare for survival and response
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apps that automatically scale up to handle millions of users
and scale down again to have this be done by smaller teams
many are 100 or so lines some are around 1,000
lines
Integrity Availability Confiden3ality
Spoofing Tampering Repudia1on Informa1on Disclosure Denial of Service Escala1on of
Privilege
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Service decomposition
shouldn’t
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exhaustion
Orchestration layer attacks
simple
rule them all?
Choose Restrict Monitor Configure Challenge Test
Identity and access management
the lowest set of permissions and accesses required to do
your job
require well defined roles
Automate and alert
mature groups and role assistance
Immutable architectures matter in microservice security
(but you might not be the right person to audit
them)
(including those changes made by an attacker)
become hard to persist
Heterogeneous language and technology spaces
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you
technologies
vulnerability management can be challenging in microservice architectures
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Testing
(doesn’t require a specialist third party)
OWASP Zap Proxy https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Zed_Attack_Proxy_Project Gauntlt http://gauntlt.org/ BDD Security http://www.continuumsecurity.net/bdd-intro.html
software testing technique discover coding errors security loopholes massive amounts
of random data attempt to make it crash
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Logging and monitoring
All
secure location immutable format away from production
denial of service attacks
like actually, for real, not just when you’re debugging
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TL;DR Microservice Fundamentals Some important points that are worth refreshing
Prevention Avoid common vulnerabilities and avoid mistakes Detection Prepare for survival and response
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