API Gateway & Microservices Security Assessment
This video breaks down how to perform a practical, real-world security assessment of an API Gateway + Microservices architecture. Instead of generic best practices, we focus on how a security architect thinks while evaluating identity flows, API Gateway configurations, service-to-service trust, infrastructure boundaries, and monitoring gaps.
What you’ll learn:
• How to analyze an API Gateway as the central enforcement point
• How to evaluate OAuth/OIDC flows and token handling
• Critical security controls for API Gateway deployments
• How to assess microservice-to-microservice communication securely
• Secrets management, segmentation, and workload identity essentials
• Infrastructure hardening for databases, queues, storage, and containers
• Logging, telemetry, and runtime visibility expectations
• A complete step-by-step security assessment checklist
• Common gaps found across real-world microservices environments
• The difference between a solution architect mindset and a security architect mindset
This episode is part of the Security Architect's Playbook series, designed to help aspiring and practicing security architects assess modern architectures with clarity, structure, and confidence.
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