Microservice security: a systematic literature review

Davide Berardi, Saverio Giallorenzo, Jacopo Mauro, Andrea Melis 0001, Fabrizio Montesi, Marco Prandini [2022].
In PeerJ Comput. Sci. 8.

Abstract

Microservices is an emerging paradigm for developing distributed systems. With their widespread adoption, more and more work investigated the relation between microservices and security. Alas, the literature on this subject does not form a well-defined corpus: it is spread over many venues and composed of contributions mainly addressing specific scenarios or needs. In this work, we conduct a systematic review of the field, gathering 290 relevant publications—at the time of writing, the largest curated dataset on the topic. We analyse our dataset along two lines: (a) quantitatively, through publication metadata, which allows us to chart publication outlets, communities, approaches, and tackled issues; (b) qualitatively, through 20 research questions used to provide an aggregated overview of the literature and to spot gaps left open. We summarise our analyses in the conclusion in the form of a call for action to address the main open challenges.

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@article{DBLP:journals/peerj-cs/BerardiGMMMP22,
  author       = {Davide Berardi and
                  Saverio Giallorenzo and
                  Jacopo Mauro and
                  Andrea Melis and
                  Fabrizio Montesi and
                  Marco Prandini},
  title        = {Microservice security: a systematic literature review},
  journal      = {PeerJ Comput. Sci.},
  volume       = {8},
  pages        = {e779},
  year         = {2022},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.779},
  doi          = {10.7717/PEERJ-CS.779},
  timestamp    = {Sat, 09 Apr 2022 12:23:40 +0200},
  biburl       = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/peerj-cs/BerardiGMMMP22.bib},
  bibsource    = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}

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