A Survey on Microservices Security: Preliminary Findings

Microservices have become the state-of-the-art architectural style for distributed systems, however we notice the lack of comprehensive guidelines on Microservices Security. Motivated by this observation, we started an ongoing work to categorise the literature on Microservices Security, with the intent to overview the current status of the field, to provide an initial guideline to researchers and practitioners, and to possibly identify uncovered areas and orient future research. In our presentation at Microservices 2020, we propose to present the state of the art and discuss some of the most interesting insights we collected so far, such as: main security attacks occurred, the relation between software development and security, the main technologies involved, and the main application domains