Threat Modeling for Microservices: A Practical Approach

In June 2025, a major fintech platform suffered a $2.3 million data breach when an attacker exploited an unauthenticated internal API between two microservices — an API that no one had documented, let alone threat-modeled. The service mesh was in place. The mTLS was configured. But the data flow between the payment service and the notification service was never reviewed, and a missing authorizatio

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