Moving Target Defense for diversification of microservices on Kubernetes

 

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Autores: González Pineda, Kenneth Ronaldo, Rodríguez Zamora, Francisco, Barrantes Sliesarieva, Elena Gabriela
Formato: comunicación de congreso
Data de Publicación:2023
Descripción:The ease of deployment of containerized web applications and the ease of management offered by orchestrator platforms such as Kubernetes has driven the design of systems by microservices. Containers implementing microservices can be targets of security attacks and due to programming language homogenization said attacks are more likely to succeed. This document presents a moving target defense (MTD) that makes use of the basic load balancing and high availability features of Kubernetes to instantiate versions of microservices implemented in different programming languages; with the aim of mitigating the exploitation of vulnerabilities in these specific languages. An attack model is simulated and an experiment is conducted to explore the scope of the defense in terms of attacks mitigated and impact on service interruption. The results show that the proposed defense reduces the effectiveness of attacks on microservices with a minimum cost per failure (downtime, service interruption perceived by user) of around 0.235% on average.
País:Kérwá
Institución:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Kérwá
Idioma:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:kerwa.ucr.ac.cr:10669/104575
Acceso en liña:https://hdl.handle.net/10669/104575
Palabra crave:Moving Target Defense
Kubernetes
Microservices
Diversification.
Moving Target Defense (MTD)
Computer software
Programming languages
Vulnerabilities
Attacks mitigated