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NIST SP 800-204

Security Strategies for Microservices-based Application Systems

Date Published: August 2019

Author(s)

Ramaswamy Chandramouli (NIST)

Abstract

Keywords

microservices; load balancing; circuit breaker; Application Programming Interface (API); API gateway; service mesh; proxy
Control Families

Access Control; Configuration Management; Identification and Authentication; System and Communications Protection; System and Information Integrity

Documentation

Publication:
https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.800-204
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Supplemental Material:
None available

Publication Parts:
SP 800-204A
SP 800-204B
SP 800-204C
SP 800-204D

Document History:
03/25/19: SP 800-204 (Draft)
08/07/19: SP 800-204 (Final)