Microservices Security Cheat Sheet — Service-level authorization

Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions). Service-level authorization gives each microservice more control to enforce access control policies. For further discussion, we will use terms and definitions according with NIST SP 800-162. The functional components of an access control system can be classified as follows Policy Administration Point (PAP): Provides a user interface for creating, managing, testing, and debugging access control rules. Policy Decision Point (PDP): Computes access decisions by evaluating the applicable access control policy. Policy Enforcement Point (PEP): Enforces policy decisions in response to a request from a subject requesting access to a protected object. Policy Information Point (PIP): Serves as the retrieval source of attributes or the data required for policy evaluation to provide the information needed by the PDP to make decisions. Attribution: Adapted from OWASP Cheat Sheet Series under CC-BY-SA-4.0. Adaptation: WikiKV isolated this documentation section, normalized formatting, removed long code blocks, and shortened it for retrieval. Verify version-sensitive details at the source.