Microservice security: a systematic literature review.

Davide Berardi, Saverio Giallorenzo, Jacopo Mauro, Andrea Melis, Fabrizio Montesi, Marco Prandini

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Article in PeerJ. Computer science, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in

4citing papers in PubMed

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

Development and usability testing of an integrated geriatric care model (SMART system) to promote integrated home-based geriatric care.BMC geriatrics · 2025
Article
Enhancing Microservice Security Through Vulnerability-Driven Trust in the Service Mesh Architecture.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
Article
Static-Analysis-Based Solutions to Security Challenges in Cloud-Native Systems: Systematic Mapping Study.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
Review
Relevant Cybersecurity Aspects of IoT Microservices Architectures Deployed over Next-Generation Mobile Networks.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
Article

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Davide BerardiDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

Saverio GiallorenzoDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

Jacopo MauroDepartment of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.

Andrea MelisDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

Fabrizio MontesiDepartment of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0003-4666-901X

Marco PrandiniDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

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

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AuthenticationAuthentication and authorizationInfrastructure-as-a-serviceIntrusion detection and preventionPrivacyService compositionService deploymentService discoverySoftware developmentThreat model

Identifiers

PMID35111904

DOI10.7717/peerj-cs.779

PMCPMC8771803

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