Security and Observability for Serverless and Microservices Applications
There are studies that indicate that cybercrime can be considered the third economy in the world. Besides that, the investment made in many companies in cyber security has increased a lot in the last few years. When we talk about serverless and microservices, we cannot ignore this topic. In fact, the area of attack of a distributed system is bigger than a simple monolith application.
Considering this challenging scenario, security and observability cannot be discussed in a single moment of the development process. The approach of security and privacy by design indicates that you will only achieve success and reduce risk in cyber security if you start thinking about it just after you start thinking about your solution.
The goal of this chapter is to discuss how to secure applications, enable monitoring for both performance and security, and improve incident response, considering the tools and techniques...
