2021/11/30 by Lenin Leines-Vite, Juan Carlos Pérez-Arriaga, Xavier Limón · 2 citations
Computer Science · #Cloud computing #Cloud computing security #Communications security #Computer science #Computer security #Encryption #Enterprise information security architecture #Implementation #Information and Cyber Security #Information security #IoT and Edge/Fog Computing #Microservices #Process (computing) #Security service #Software System Performance and Reliability #Software engineering #cs.CR
paper · pdf · doi:10.5121/ijnsa.2021.13607
published in International Journal of Network Security & Its Applications 13(6), 85-103 · 19 pages, 4 Figures, 5 tables
openalex publication_date 2021/11/30 · arxiv created 2021/12/07 · arxiv updated 2021/12/08 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Security has become paramount in modern software services as more and more security breaches emerge, impacting final users and organizations alike. Trends like the Microservice Architecture bring new security challenges related to communication, system design, development, and operation. The literature presents a plethora of security-related solutions for microservices-based systems, but the spread of information difficult practitioners' adoption of novel security related solutions. In this study, we aim to present a catalogue and discussion of security solutions based on algorithms, protocols, standards, or implementations; supporting principles or characteristics of information security, considering the three possible states of data, according to the McCumber Cube. Our research follows a Systematic Literature Review, synthesizing the results with a meta-aggregation process. We identified a total of 30 primary studies, yielding 75 security solutions for the communication of microservices.