Microservices Security: It Will Get Worse Before it Gets Better - Seguridad Mania.com - España y América Latina

For every 100KLOC, a monolithic application will have an average of 39 vulnerabilities whereas a microservice application will have an average of 180 vulnerabilities. You read that right. According to the data gathered from WhiteHat Security’s 2018 Stats Report, the transition of enterprise monolithic applications to distributed microservices architectures is actually increasing the overall average of total vulnerabilities. But why? Why is it that we seemingly continue to make the same mistakes again and again? And what does this say about the security of microservices architectures, or the developers that build them? The journey to a microservices architecture generally involves the decomposition of an already existing monolith application, wherein previous security assumptions and considerations are often questioned and sometimes invalidated.   Join Eric Sheridan, Chief Scientist at WhiteHat Security, for a dive into the security trends of microservice architectures. Participants of this talk will learn… •Why we are seeing an increase in the number of vulnerabilities with the migration to microservices •The most common vulnerability classes facing applications of microservices architectures •Strategies that can be used to more readily find and fix vulnerabilities earlier in the development lifecycle