A system performs a method including: generating a posture of a first microservice in a microservice based network environment; implementing the posture of the first microservice at a sidecar of the first micro service; distributing the posture of the first microservice to a sidecar of a second microservice in the microservice based network environment; implementing the posture of the first microservice at the sidecar of the second micro service; and controlling communication of personally identifiable information between the first microservice and the second microservice based on the posture of the first microservice through either or both the sidecar of the first microservice and the sidecar of the second micro service. The posture of the first microservice includes an identification of one or more types of personally identifiable information that the first microservice is authorized to distribute and one or more types of personally identifiable information that the first microservice is authorized to receive.