Monolithic, multi-tiered approaches to design software has become a thing of the past in recent years. These approaches have given way to a more modular architecture, commonly referred to as “micro services.” Despite the name, some of these services aren’t actually micro at all. Isolating an app’s services into interoperable containers has revolutionized the way developers are able to update, add to, or expand parts of an app. While micro services have freed us from many of the constraints of the monolith, these benefits come with increased complexity, vulnerabilities, and risks that need to be mitigated with a tailored security strategy. It’s important to adhere to the same security standards while designing your MuleSoft integrations.
No matter how the applications are integrated, security concerns typically reside within the network. For micro services, this gets exacerbated due to the various network connections and APIs used to forge communication channels between all those components. These create more loopholes for attach and interception of data that is in-transit. Therefore, it’s necessary to keep security design principals in mind while designing your integration using any framework, such as MuleSoft, Jitterbit or any other platform.
The goal of security design is based on:
There are seven design principles that are crucial to keep in mind when designing integration within a framework. Without these design principles in place, your data could be put at risk. The principles include networks that are:
The four pillars of an integration project, which are the building blocks for a solid, secure application network, are:
Complexity can create vulnerability, and data security is a difficult enough problem without trying to extract data to fit a legacy standalone. As you design application networks, following these application design best practices can help you:
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