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Microservices Security

by Wojciech Lesniak

Security breaches can be very costly, from loss of revenue, reputational damage, and even bankruptcy. In this course, you will learn how to navigate the unique security challenges of a microservice architecture.

What you'll learn

Microservices can provide a lot of flexibility and benefits to your application and organization. Security breaches can be very costly, from loss of revenue, reputational damage and possibly bankruptcy, hence it’s of utmost importance you get it right. In this course, Microservices Security Fundamentals, you will learn the best practices, principals, standards, and patterns to effectively design and implement security solutions for your desired microservices architecture. First, you will learn about the key challenges of securing microservices vs. traditional monolithic applications. Next, you will discover the various security patterns and techniques you can utilize to address these challenges, focusing on edge and service-service security, single page vs. multi-page applications, monitoring, alerting, and throttling. Finally, you will explore threat modeling techniques and how to foster a security culture within your microservices teams. When you finish this course, you will have the skills and knowledge to design and implement secure microservices required to protect your organization and users.

Table of contents

Course Overview
1min
Understanding the Complexities of Microservices Security
12mins
Decoupling Security from Your Microservices with Service Mesh
10mins

About the author

Wojciech is a Technical Lead and Scrum Master. He has over 15 years' experience in software development working in a variety of industries from financial services and online gaming. He has extensive experience with anything Java, Spring framework, Microservices and has a passion for developing secure and scalable applications.

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