Micro Frontends and Security

The session focuses on developing micro-frontend solutions with security in mind, highlighting common vulnerabilities and attack vectors, and discussing mitigation strategies.

The speaker is Florian, also known as Flo, a solution architect from a smaller company in Munich, Germany, specializing in IoT platforms and distributed web applications.

The OWASP Top 10 is a list of the most critical and commonly encountered security vulnerabilities in web applications, regularly updated to reflect new threats.

Common vulnerabilities include injection attacks, insecure design, security misconfiguration, and authentication flaws.

Injection attacks can be mitigated by following the principle of least privilege, using sandboxing techniques, and ensuring proper input validation and sanitization.

Token-based authentication, like OAuth2 with JWT, is popular for SPAs. The challenge in micro-frontends is securely distributing and managing tokens among different components.

Insecure design issues can be addressed by using code signing, ensuring proper storage and transport channel security, and employing integrity checks for JavaScript files.

A content security policy (CSP) is a browser feature that helps mitigate risks by restricting resources that can be loaded, thus preventing malicious code execution.

Monitoring is crucial for detecting anomalies, ensuring security compliance, and gaining insights into application performance, especially in a distributed micro-frontend environment.